The postponed eighth and final round of the PE Oval Track Raceway (PEOTR) club championship takes place tomorrow evening at their circuit that is situated along Mission Road in the Greenbushes area. The classes that will be in action are the Development class, 1600 Stock Saloons, 1660 Modified Saloons, 2.1 Modified Saloons, Hot Rods, Classic 6’s, Heavy Metals and V8 Modified Saloons.

Quade de Lange has a formidable lead in the Development class and will be a difficult young man to beat with a twenty-two point lead of Justin Fourie, who is his closest rival with Ciska Bernardo rounding out the top three. In the highly competitive 1600 Stock Saloon class that has seen nineteen different drivers competing in the championship, Ruben Barnard will be a difficult man to beat with his forty-one point lead. Reghardt Joubert in second place in the title hunt has had a season of highs and lows and will be hard pushed by third placed Deon Kretzmann. Included in the mix, but out of the running in the club championship in the 1660 class, will be the newly crowned SA1 Johan Schoeman and SA2 Pieta de Lange following their successes at the recent SA Championships that were held in George. 

Charne’ Schuin has had a consistent season competing in the 1660 Modified saloon class and enjoys a healthy 137 point lead over her younger brother Jason Drake with Jaco Pitout in a distant third place. Dawid “Baba” Grundlingh leads the 2.1 Modified class by a mere fourteen points and at the time of going to the press had not submitted an entry for this event so Malcolm Els will be the man to beat. Els, having missed two rounds of the championship has been extremely consistent since his return to racing and will be a formidable force out on track. Making a welcome return after an extended engine rebuild on his car is Kean Barnard. In the Hot Rod class Piet Scheepers has a narrow lead in the championship standings and will no doubt be the man to beat but he’ll be up against Jaco Aylward, Tiaan Oliphant and Nandor Kleywegt amongst others.

Jonathan van Vuuren has enjoyed a good season and leads the Classic 6’s class by 69 points over Gordon Ascaray with Michael Kruger in third place, while Joshua Sletcher has dominated the Heavy Metal class with a massive 172 point lead over Bonita Kotze in second. Also enjoying a massive lead, but this time in the V8 American Saloon class, club chairman Wayne Holland is seventy eight points ahead of Ruzanne Jansen with Dawid Joubert in third place.

Spectators are urged to get to the track early to secure a track-side parking place and racing is set to start at 18h00 and tickets to watch all of the action are available at the gate.