The halfway point of 2011 Sport Compact was passed with Round 3 once again taking place at Tarlton International Raceway. The list of competitors was down on previous events but that favoured all who took part as the lines were short and drivers could fit in a few extra qualifying runs. Racing began at around 10:00am as the field warmed up bottles of nitrous and checked tyres pressures before putting in the first run of the day.

A few notable absentees slightly detracted from the racing: Richard Jordaan and Duppie Du Plessis in the Nissan Champs, Quintin in the normally aspirated K20 Honda Civic and a few from the SnS camp. That said the field was still diverse with the usual consignment of hot hatches to fully prepared drag racers and exhibition cars.

At the last event there were 27 breakages but this time Tarlton was more sympathetic as only ten cars retired by the time eliminations took place. George Smooth in his BMW 335i battled with traction and was unable to use the extra grunt from his newly-fitted nitrous system with a time of 12.5 seconds while Vishal Matai in the VW Golf GTi was another member of the 12.5-second club.

Satish in the SnS Opel broke sideshafts early on but he had the car fixed and running in no time – his car is making more power but brittle sideshafts meant he had to launch cautiously and his times suffered. It was business as usual for the other SnS Opel of Theo Knipe as he ran consistently with a best time of 10.3. It won’t be long before he is in the nines.

With the introduction of V8 engines came some meticulous race cars running competitive times. Wouter Havenga ran a 10.90 in the normally aspirated Chev Escort and went on to win his class. It was also good to see Michelle Taylor getting the best out of her car with a time of 12.3 seconds.

Budler Motorsport in their turbo BMW ran a personal best of 8.2-seconds while Eziel Esterhuysen in the Honda Civic managed to punch his Honda to the line in under 10 seconds. Doing it for the rotaries was Arthur from AJ Racing as he joined the sub 10-second gang with a blistering time of 9.8 seconds.

Round 3 also marked the debut of Ian Repsold’s highly-anticipated MethAddict dragster competing in Outlaw class. He got the time down to an 8.8-second showing enormous potential for the rounds to come.

When it came down to the crunch of Eliminations it was Divan Prinsloo ahead of Jose Patrico in True Street while Hannes Straus beat Dennis V Loggenberg with a 12.0 in Wild Street. For Pro Street  Wouter Havenga got the better of Leon du Plooy and Wessel Oosthuizen beat Tyrin Murray in Outlaw.

The next round of Sport Compact will take place on the 4^th of September at Tarlton.

C RND 3 QUALIFYING 24.07.2011
Class Race № Driver BEST

TRUE STREET
TS 176 PIETER NOTHA 12.902s
TS 191 HAFZEL RAMIAN 13.299s
TS 144 RIAZ WADVALLA 13.405s
TS 183 MALCOLM PERUMAL 13.769s
TS 173 BERTIE STRAUSS 13.790s
TS 177 JOSE PATRICIO 13.889s
TS 132 KELVON KJUMALO 13.926s
TS 204 ALLY BUCCUS 13.948s
TS 26 SATISH HARRICHAND 13.996s
TS 194 WALTER PERFECT 14.016s
TS 171 ELEISE HAVENGA 14.152s
TS 145 GEORGE SMITH 14.219s
TS 208 SAREL ELS 14.234s
TS 32 DIVAN PRINSLOO 14.292s
TS 211 COPLEY SUTTON 14.321s
TS 77 RUDI PORTER 14.505s
TS 142 YUVESHEN GOVENDER 14.570s
TS 190 ZIYOAH MANGAROO 14.623s
TS 205 PRESHEN NAICKER 14.636s
TS 185 PRAGASAN GOVENDER 14.697s
TS 23 ALBERT FRITZ 14.761s
TS 201 LEON GOVENDER 16.332s
TS 82 JOHAN LAMPRECHT 12.923s
TS 131 REINHARDT VENTER 14.409s
TS 80 GLEN DE SWARDT 13.117s

WILD STREET
WS 198 LAFRAS DU PLOOY 11.103s
WS 135 MARTIN VD MERWE 11.156s
WS 59 JAN LUBBE 12.201s
WS 133 SANESH BEHART 11.688s
WS 63 JOHAN LE ROUX 11.694s
WS 29 DENNIS V LOGGENBERG 12.076s
WS 149 HANNES STRAUS 12.104s
WS 188 JOHAN GILDENHUYS 12.111s
WS 57 MICHELLE TAYLOR 12.328s
WS 51 VISHAL MATAI 12.542s
WS 178 GEORGE ANDRINOPOULOS 12.560s
WS 197 SHAUN WILKINS 12.594s
WS 203 SHERWIN SINGH 12.741s
WS 175 PIETER VON WIELIG 12.748s
WS 206 SHIVEN NAICKER 12.843s
WS 36 FREEK DU PREEZ 12.874s
WS 168 UGAN NAIDOO 12.929s
WS 154 JOHANN PAIN 13.191s
WS 202 JOSE MATIAS 13.344s
WS 124 RAYMOND PILLAY 13.695s
WS 136 NICK NAIDOO 13.864s
WS 207 PIETER LE ROUX 14.197s
WS 162 JOHAN OOSTHUYSEN 15.043s
WS 93 ANRE HERBST 13.463s
WS 129 ANTHONY HARMOVAS 15.396s

PRO STREET
PS 49 LEON D PLOOY 10.061s
PS 107 CHRIS SMIDT 10.192s
PS 67 THEO KNIPE 10.362s
PS 98 JAMES DOUGLAS 10.517s
PS 34 WOUTER HAVENGA 10.917s
PS 118 FRANS LAUBSCHER 11.308s
PS 186 MARIUS SCHRIEK 11.366s
PS 110 SATISH HARRICHAND 11.490s
PS 92 STOIL MICHAYLOV 12.219s
PS 193 PLUMBER DU PLESSIS 12.324s
PS 212 JANNIE BADENHORST 14.438s
PS 209 JOHNNY ALMEIDA 16.034s
PS 153 MANNY MARINHO 17.547s
PS 39 JAN BADENHORST 22.636s
PS 199 WILLIAM LAUNSPACH 10.303s
PS 192 NEAL SINGH 10.021s
PS 155 EZIEL ESTERHUYSEN 9.964s

OUTLAW
OC 53 MARIUS OOSTHUIZEN 8.461s
OC 141 IAN REPSOLD 8.866s
OC 72 WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN 9.488s
OC 41 TYRIN MURRAY 9.747s
OC 200 ARTHUR JOUBERT 9.822s

EXHIBITION
EX 02 DINO HARRIDUTH 13.632s
EX 03 THAMEN MAHABEER 13.278s

PST BIKES
PST 19 MARIUS BURGER 7.880s
PST 08 CRAIG CZANK 9.452s
PST 07 CHARLES BARNARD 9.517s

SS BIKES
SS 16 JEERY LOMBARD 9.892s
SS 03 ZAFAR HOOSEN 9.994s
SS 06 CHARLES BARNARD 10.067s
SS 05 PETER DE LA REY 10.125s
SS 18 JESAJA LOMBARD 10.283s
SS 11 JOHANN ELLIS 10.553s
SS 17 LEONARD ROBERTS 10.889s

Elimination

SCS RND 3 ELIMINATIONS 24.07.2011
Class Driver T1

TRUE STREET
DIVAN PRINSLOO 14.393s
JOSE PATRICIO 13.696s
ALBERT FRITZ 14.883s

WILD STREET
HANNES STRAUS 12.025s
DENNIS V LOGGENBERG 12.102s
PIETER VON WIELIG 12.452s

PRO STREET
WOUTER HAVENGA 10.897s
LEON DU PLOOY 10.053s
JAMES DOUGLAS 10.633s

OUTLAW
WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN 9.517s
TYRIN MURRAY 10.049s
IAN REPSOLD 8.866s

PST BIKES
MARIUS BURGER 8.013s
CHARLES BARNARD 9.675s
CRAIG CZANK 9.570s

SS BIKES
PETER DE LA REY 10.122s
CHARLES BARNARD 10.119s
JERRY LOMBARD 9.892s