Please note that Lance Isaacs was not excluded from heat 2's results, but was given a 30 sec penalty, see below...

27/06/09 - Johannesburg, Saturday – A slice of South African motorsport history went into the record books via the “Shez Show” at round five of the WesBank Super Series national championship meeting at Kyalami today.

Reigning South African Superbike champion Sheridan Morais, known to his friends as Shez, became the first rider to take a clean sweep in both the Interfile SA Superbike and Interfile SA Supersport championship categories on the same day. Morais, on the Emtek Racing Kawasaki, took both race wins in the Superbike category – winning the second race by the skin of his teeth – and romped away with both Supersport wins.

In the Supersport category Morais now has 10 wins from 10 starts and simply decimated the field in both races. Behind Morais a determined Dylan White (White Aluminium Yamaha) took a brace of seconds with Eddy Alberts (Race Nation Honda) and Ronan Quarmby (Interfile Yamaha) sharing third places.

In the opening Superbike race Morais shadowed the experienced veteran, Lance Isaacs, on the Portable Shade Honda, before making a move. Former champion Arushen Moodley, on a second PS Honda, took the final podium position with Greg Gildenhuys (Race Nation Honda) fourth and Clinton Seller (BMG Yamaha) fifth.

It was race two that got the pulses racing, and it also had a sting in the tail. Once again Morais stalked the veteran Isaacs and the end product was an explosive final lap.

Morais sneaked past Isaacs on the last corner and looked to have won by less than a wheel. The timing system gave the win to Isaacs by two thousandths of a second, but this was later reversed and the win given to Morais by a thousandth of a second.

Then came the sting in the tail. *Isaacs was excluded from the results (not excluded, but given a 30sec penalty.ed) for a technical infringement and Gildenhuys and Robert Portman, on the second Emtek Kawasaki, found themselves on the podium with Team Yamaha pair Shawn Whyte and Chris Leeson fourth and fifth.

The Auby family, as they have done for most of the season, stole the WesBank V8 Supercar honours with three time champion Hennie Groenewald having another unhappy day. Race one went to teenager Brandon Auby (ELT International Jaguar) and his father, Deon, won race two in the ELT Holden.

In the opening race the younger Auby led home Groenewald (Timken Holden) and team-mate Richard Pinard in the Timken Jaguar. Auby senior was fourth ahead of another son, championship leader Marc, who was later hit with a 30 second penalty for a race infringement which dropped him to 11th.

The second race saw the inverted grid system come into action. Auby senior came from the middle of the field to lead home the steady Danie Correia (Liqui Moly Chev Corvette) and son Marc.

This time around Brandon was not so lucky and a lap one puncture ruined his race. Groenewald also picked up a puncture on lap one and slid off the track taking Pinard with him and both retired on the spot.

Two interesting Bridgestone Production Car races saw plenty of action with provisional results giving the wins to reigning champion Johan Fourie (Indy Oil Audi) and Michael Stephen in the Xtreme Team Audi. The last three laps of the first race were run under the safety car after Class T contender Gary Formato (Ford Racing Nando’s Ford Focus) slid off the circuit, with Fourie leading home Melvill Priest (VMP Audi) and Shaun Watson-Smith in the second Xtreme Team Audi.

There were a series of early incidents in race two with Class T championship leader Graeme Nathan (Indy Oil/Kaye Eddie VW Golf) the major victim. At the front of the field Stephen just held off Priest with Watson-Smith third.

Priest was later penalised 10 seconds and dropped to sixth with Watson-Smith and Fourie on the podium. With Class A championship leader Anthony Taylor (Afrox BMW) not having a happy day, the title chase is now delicately poised.

The Class T wins were shared by Nathan and Graham Donker in the Mini/Maxi Panelbeaters VW Golf. Cape Town veteran Kosie Swanepoel (Barnett’s Toyota RunX) again dominated Class B with a brace of wins.

Teenager Tasmin Pepper (PG Glass/Pepper Racing FVW) recalled the days of former SA champions Judy Witter-Charlton and Desire Wilson when she scored her first ever national championship win in the first Formula Volkswagen race. Although it was a slightly fortuitous win with Cristiano Morgado (City of Durban FVW) penalised 30 seconds for a jump start, young Pepper drove an impeccable race.

Wesleigh Orr (Bravo/Teague Distributors FVW) romped away with heat two to win by 10 seconds from another Auby, this time third son Jimmy, in the Crystal Pier Logistics FVW, and Simon Moss in the Southern Sun/Oakley FVW. Pepper and Paolo da Cunha (SAM Racing/Tubular Tech FVW) rounded out the top five.

The Engen VW Cup wins were shared by Bryan Morgan (Timken VW Polo) and Champion VW Polo teenager Devin Robertson. Morgan took the opening heat ahead of Robertson and another teenager, Gennaro Bonafede, in the second Champion car.

Race two went to Robertson ahead of Matthew Hodges in the PG Glass VW Polo. Miguel Pasqualli (Xtreme Team VW Polo) moved up a place when team-mate Kosie Weyers was excluded from the results, and Bonafede moved up a place into fifth.

Results
Interfile SA Supersport: Race 1 – 1 S Morais (Kawasaki); 2 D Whyte (Yamaha); 3 E Alberts (Honda); 4 J Egan (Honda); 5 R Quarmby (Yamaha). Race 2 – 1 S Morais (Kawasaki); 2 D White (Yamaha); 3 R Quarmby (Yamaha); 4 E Alberts (Honda); 5 G Green (Honda).

Interfile SA Superbikes: Race 1 – 1 S Morais (Kawasaki); 2 L Isaacs (Honda); 3 A Moodley (Honda); 4 G Gildenhuys (Honda); 5 C Seller (Yamaha). Race 2 – 1 S Morais (Kawasaki); 2 G Gildenhuis (Honda); 3 R Portman (Kawasaki);4 S Whyte (Yamaha); 5 C Leeson (Yamaha).

WesBank V8 Supercars: Race 1 – 1 B Auby (Jaguar); 2 H Groenewald (Holden); 3 R Pinard (Jaguar); 4 D Auby (Holden); 5 F di Matteo (Jaguar). Race 2 – 1 D Auby (Holden); 2 D Correia (Chev Corvette); 3 M Auby (Jaguar); 4 F di Matteo (Jaguar); 5 L Wilford (Mustang).

Bridgestone Production Cars: Race 1 – 1 J Fourie (Audi A4); 2 M Priest (Audi A4); 3 S Watson-Smith (Audi A4); 4 L Poulter (Nissan 350Z); 5 M Stephen (Audi A4). Class A – J Fourie (Audi A4); Class T – G Nathan (VW Golf GTi); Class B – K Swanepoel (Toyota RunX). Race 2 – 1 M Stephen (Audi A4); 2 S Watson-Smith (Audi A4); 3 J Fourie (Audi A4); 4 L Poulter (Nissan 350Z); 5 R Wolk (BMW). Class A – M Stephen (Audi A4); Class T – G Donker (VW Golf GTi); Class B – K Swanepoel (Toyota RunX).

Engen VW Cup: Race 1 – 1 B Morgan (VW Polo); 2 D Robertson (VW Polo); 3 G Bonafede (VW Polo); 4 K Quarmby (VW Polo); 5 M Hodges (VW Polo). Race 2 – 1 D Robertson (VW Polo); 2 B Hodges (VW Polo); 3 B Morgan (VW Polo); 4 M Pasqualli (VW Polo); 5 G Bonafede (VW Polo).

Formula Volkswagen: Race 1 – 1 C Morgado (FVW); 2 T Pepper (FVW); 3 J Auby (FVW); 4 S Moss (FVW); 5 D Hirschowitz (FVW). Race 2 – 1 W Orr (FVW); 2 J Auby (FVW); 3 S Moss (FVW); 4 T Pepper (FVW); 5 P da Cunha (FVW).


Sheridan Morais made a clean sweep at Kyalami on Saturday. Pic Tony Alves