Results of the Toyota Dealer 400

Lydenburg, Saturday 14th 2012

 

SP Class: A German amidst the Japanese

There was plenty of drama in the Production Vehicle category, and the standings are still provisional.

 

Team Castrol Toyota’s boys Vos and Taylor were both penalised for deviating from the route twice in the two loops. Vos and Howie were initially hit with severe penalties, which set them back despite their first and second finishes.

 

The Toyota factory team hasn’t won a Toyota sponsored event since 1999, when Apie Reyneke and Robin Houghton won the Toyota Desert Race in Botswana.

 

Castrol Toyota team principal, Glyn Hall, protested against the penalties imposed on Vos and Howie. The stewards made a compromise, scrapping part of the penalties that had initially seen the Toyota teams lose their podium positions. The results stand as follows at the moment (results are provisional, as they’re subject to an appeal to MSA):

 

1^ST  (06:25:54)

 

Duncan Vos and Rob Howie – Team Castrol Toyota

 

2^nd  (06:26:09)

 

Anthony Taylor and Chris Birkin – Team Castrol Toyota

 

3^rd  (06:26:22)

 

Hannes Grobler and Hennie Ter Stege – RFS Motorsport BMW

 

4^th  (06:27:11) 

 

Pikkie Labuscagne and  Rikus Erasmus – Ruwacon Toyota Hilux

 

5^th  (06:52:36)

 

Deon Venter and Ian Palmer – 4×4 Mega World Toyota Hilux

 

6TH:   D05 N1 Cliff Weichelt and  Johann Smalberger –  Toyota Land Cruiser (06:53:24) – 2^ND successive Class D victory

7TH:   SP02 Terence Marsh and George Smalberger – Nissan Navara (06:54:03)

8TH:   SP06 Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst – Ford Ranger (07:00:26)

9TH:   SP12  Kobus van Tonder and Freddie Kriel – Ford Ranger (07:04:38)

10TH:   D99 Johan Horn and Werner Horn – Toyota Land Cruiser (07:04:38)

11TH:   E02 Dirk Putter and Jacobus Claassens – Toyota Hilux (07:08:21) – also penalised by clerk of the course

12TH:   SP11 Gary Bertholdt and Ralph Pitchford – Toyota Hilux (07:21:41)

13TH:   SP34 Lance Woolridge and Ward Huxtable – Ford Ranger (07:37:14)

14TH:   E22 Rowan Lamb and Lyle Parker – Ford Ranger (08:10:25)

15TH:   Jason Venter and Vincent van Alleman – Toyota Hilux (08:15:53)

16TH:   Jack Oosthuizen and Sarel Oosthuizen – Land Rover Defender (08:17:08)

 

Did not finish:

 

Louis Weichelt / Maret Bezuidenhout – Toyota Land Cruiser

Jaco Visser / Werner Weiss – Toyota Hilux

Diederik Hattingh / Buks Cilliers – Toyota 3D4D

Johan Griffioen / Willem Marais – Toyota D4D

Jannie Visser / Le Roux – Toyota Hilux

Hugo de Bruyn / Henri Hugo – Toyota Hilux

Christiaan du Plooy / Henk Janse van Vuuren – BMW X3

Hennie de Klerk / Keith Solomon – Toyota Hilux

Willem Vos / Dana Vos – BMW

Louw de Bruin / Riaan Greyling – Ford Ranger

Archie Rutherford / Mathew Carlson – Nissan Navara

Graham Leith / Trevor Leith – Ford Ranger

 

Round Three:

The next event on the championship calendar is the Atlas Copco Timbertrack 400 in Richmond, in KwaZulu-Natal, on May 18 and 19.