11 May RACE REVIEW – SHORT CIRCUIT #3 – 6 May 2023
PROJECT SIXTY SA DOMINATES LIVINGSTONE BATHS 3 HOUR

Two hotshot teens and a vastly experienced short-circuit racer put together a faultless performance to win the first round of the Livingstone Baths Short-Circuit Endurance Racing series by no less than nine laps at Killarney on Saturday 6 May.
Slade van Niekerk, Tristin Pienaar and Trevor Westman qualified on pole and led every lap of the three-hour race, completing 197 laps of the 1.37 kilometre Half-Main circuit. They also posted the fastest lap of the race at 51.814 seconds, early in the final hour.
Second was the SunScan team of Max Munton and Jason Linaker, who moved up from third behind HSC Racing (cousins Nicholas and Braddon Hutchings, and Adrian Solomon) after the first rider change and were never seriously challenged again, finishing four laps ahead of an epic dice for third between Team Olibert (father and son Albert and Oliver Hintenaus) and Team Mass Custom Suits (Matthew Vismer and Lance Jonas) that saw them finish just 0.322sec apart with the Olibert bike ahead when it counted after three hours of racing!
HSC Racing finished fourth, a lap further down, after running a strong second in the early stages, but fortune did not favour Team 888 (Hilton Redelinghuys, his daughter Codie and Brad Bodsworth), as far as is known the first father-and-daughter team to compete in a short-circuit endurance racing event at Killarney.
They were running a strong sixth when the clutch lever of the 888 CBR150 broke off, forcing a long pit stop to borrow and fit a replacement lever and dropping them to stone last. The bike later picked up gear-selection gremlins, but a gritty final stint by 15-year-old Codie brought it home 11th out of 13 finishers.