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‘This is the James Dean of cars’ AMIL UMRAW THE galloping pony is here; but if you want one, you may have to wait a few years — unless you win the “Mustang Lotto” of course. Ford has unleashed its legend ary beast onto Mzansi’s roads for the first time, dropping potential buyers to their knees begging to take the reigns. With a waiting list probably as long as the car itself, Ford has in troduced the ‘Mustang Lottery’.
Ford’s new Mustang redefines muscle car history, standing for something more than commuting or racing. AMIL UMRAW drove it … and came back a convert. PHOTO: QUICKPIC
TAKE THE GAMBLE It is a competition like no other. Fifteen lucky victors will each win the opportunity to purchase the all new Mustang ahead of the ex isting waiting list, said to be any where between two to three years. Operating on a sweepstake ba sis, the competition will run until the end of February next year and potential buyers can enter on Ford’s website. But if you end up as one of the thousands of dark horses when the competition concludes, is the
Mustang worth the wait? Hell Yes! It may not be the fastest or the classiest, but it has been a while since I have driven a car with so much soul. Ford has somehow managed to encap sulate the rebellious spirit of free dom and fun entrenched in the Mustang’s pedigree. This is the James Dean of cars. THE PONY The first of the two Mustang de rivatives is the more subtle 2.3li tre EcoBoost. The tamed pony is introverted enough for daily commuting but also assertive when your right foot goes down. Its acclaimed power plant de livers 233kW and 430Nm of torque, which according to Ford, gets it from 0100km/h in 5.8 sec onds. And it isn’t thirsty. Ford claims a combined fuel economy of 8.0l/100km, but the quickrev ving seamless gearbox makes it impossible for the driver to want to achieve this. THE STALLION The snarling beast of the two, the
fivelitre V8, comes standard with an exhaust like the cracking of thunder and bowelreleasing torque that surprises you when you least expect it. Accompanying a precise and responsive sixspeed gearbox, the massive engine churns out 306kW and 530Nm of torque, catapulting the car from 0100km/h in 4.8 seconds. With this derivative, Ford have gone beyond the call to stay true to the essential racing spirit of the Mustang with features like ‘TrackApps’, which time your ac celeration and straightline rac ing laps as well as ‘Line Lock’, which brakes the front wheels so you can warm up those rear tyres at the start line. OVERALL With similar aesthetics in both derivatives as well as Ford’s per formance package standard across the range, the Mustang is featurepacked. Like the cockpit of a fighter • Turn to page 4 for more
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December 10, 2015
Mazda crossover unleashed New CX3 comes packed with features and loves nothing better than taking on a few bends MAZDA’S awardwinning CX3 has arrived in South Africa and its maker says drivers can look forward to design of the finest quality and style thanks to the Kodo — Soul of Motion design language. Mazda SA managing director David Hughes told Wheels24’s Janine van der Post the CX3 is “not a CX5 hybrid, nor is it a Mazda2 SUV”. “The CX3 is a new compact SUV that delivers on the our brand DNA known as ‘ZoomZoom’; JinbaIttai (fun driving) and defies convention with a clean page approach.” Hughes said that there’s no all wheel drive version for the CX3 yet, but “we’ll get there”. Down Under, where the new compact has been on sale for a while, Australia’s media could not sing the praises enough of the dynamic perfomance of this fifth model in Mazda’s lineup . “The product of Mazda’s lat est design and technologies, the CX3 is a vehicle that can suit the diverse lifestyles of today’s cus tomers in any scene, from inner city driving to enjoying the great outdoors — enabling customers to express their unique individu ality. We believe the Mazda CX3 will do well in the Southern Afri ca market”, said Hughes. All models are driven by a two litre petrol engine that makes 115 kW at 6 000 rpm and
tooth pairing, with the Dynamic models adding two speakers. Standard features in both in clude a an alarm system, cruise control, a front seat armrest, hill launch assist, airconditioning, power fold mirrors and a seat lift er for the driver seat. The Auto models get iStop and dynamic stability control (DSC). Extra features in the midlevel Dynamic models are climate con trol, front fog lamps, a leather covers on the steering wheel, gear, handbrake, iStop, Mazda connect with commander rear parking sensors, rain sensing wipers and a sunglass holder. The highest spec model only comes in automatic, and takes the South African drivers can now test drive the new Mazda CX3 cross over to find out why it is rated by the Scots in Edinburgh and the Ozzies in Wagga Wagga. PHOTO: QUIKCPIC 204 Nm at a respectably low 2 800 rpm. A sixspeed manual or auto transmission sends pow er to the front wheels.
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SCOTTISH MEDIA RATE THE CX3 MAZDA has grabbed three titles at the annual Scottish Car of the Year (Scoty) Awards, taking top honours in two of the most fiercely contested categories, and claim ing the glamorous “Best Drop Top” title. At a Scoty Awards evening held at the Dalmahoy Country Club on the outskirts of Edinburgh, the judges recognised and awarded the Mazda2 as the best supermini, the CX3 crossover, and the MX5 roadster. President Alisdair Suttie said putting the super into super mini is no easy task, but the MX2
did it with ease. Awards secretary Stephen Park said Mazda is on a roll with the way its cars are styled and the way they drive. The CX3 shares its platform with the Mazda2. In Eu rope, 2015 saw the most new crossovers launched yet, but the Scottish judges rate the CX3 for its driving dynamics and the effi ciency of the SKYACTIV petrol and diesel engines. Adding to its growing collection of awards, Mazda’s allnew MX5 sports car took the Scoty “Best Drop Top” title. — Newspress.
N3TC PHOTO COMPETITION FOR 2016 NOW OPEN THE N3TC has announced its annual photo competition, with two R5 000 first prizes in a total purse of R16 000 to be won. The primary aims of the com petition are to promote the vi cinity of the route and to encour age photography as a hobby, es pecially among local communities and scholars. All entries must be accompanied by the official competition entry form, one entry form per photo graph, which can be downloaded from the N3TC website www.n3tc.co.za. The competition closes on Ju ly 31, 2016 and entries received after this date will not be accept ed. SOME COMPETITION RULES: • Photographers can enter a maximum of two photographs
One of this year’s winning photos in the N3TC compeition. PHOTO: N3TC/CHRISTA GROBBELAAR per category: a. Arts & Culture; b. Sport & Recreation; c. Wildlife, Fauna and Flora; d. Landscape; e. Altered Images; and f. Scholar. • Photographs must be taken in
the near vicinity of the N3 Toll Route and should preferably be supplied in digital format at at least 300 dpi. • Images can be emailed to victoriag@n3tc.co.za titled N3TC Photographic Competi tion.
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Tata Bolt calling all izimbongi
3 How well can you sing the Tata Bolt’s praises? If your social media postings and even print advert of the feature you like the most in the Bolt is good enough, Tata will offer you a job. PHOTO: QUICKPIC
SOME TERMS AND CONDITIONS • The winner from the 10 best entries shall be called to attend an interview with the organisers. • Should the organisers believe that the winner is a potential candidate for employment, the winner shall be requested to undergo the organisers’ standard employment tests and pro cedures so as to ascertain the win ner’s skills, education or any other factors pertaining to his/her poten tial employment. • The decision on whether or not to offer the winner employment with the organisers shall be at the organis ers’ sole discretion. • Should it be determined that the winner is not a suitable candidate for employment, the organisers may pro vide the winner with tertiary educa tional assistance up to the value of R25 000. • Should an offer of employment be made to the winner, which is declined by the winner for any reason whatso ever then such offer will be consid ered forfeited by the winner. • All participants must be South Afri can citizens and/or permanent resi dents of the Republic of South Africa; be currently residing in the RSA; be at least 18 years old; have a valid ma triculation certificate; and have a val id South African driver’s licence or any driver’s licence that is valid in South Africa. • The winner will not be eligible for an offer of employment from the or ganisers if he/she has a criminal record.
Best praise songs for Bolt will win a job or a tertiary education TATA is challenging readers to try out for a job or a tertiary education worth R25 000 in the car division by test driv ing the Tata Bolt. “Tell us why you love it and you could win an exciting new job!” states the new competition. Asked if the job is a contract position or permanent, Larry da Costa, national sales and operations manager at Accor dian Investments (which sells Tata in SA) told Wheels the job is permanent, and what is more, it will suit the winner’ qualifications. “Our objective is to empower and support the development of a potential high achiever. “Our organisation and group in total employs more than 45 000 people that cover various departments such as mar keting, finance, technical, sales etc.
“Our objective is to place somebody in one of those departments. “There is no vacant position that has been marked, however we will employ a candidate who shows good initiative and someone we see who can grow with in the organisation,” Da Costa said. To enter, readers will have to go to a Tata dealer and book the Bolt for a test drive. During the test drive, the aspiring Ta ta employee must take a photo featuring the Tata Bolt and tell Tata about their favourite feature in the car. “You can write a review or blog post, compose a song or a poem, or even make a video … the choice is yours,” states Tata. Test drivers then have to upload and share their entry on several platforms by December 31, 2015, which is when the competition closes. For most this means uploading the entry onto your Facebook wall or Twitter
and tagging TataMotorsSA with #WinABolt. But for a better chance of winning, competitors should tick all the boxes listed by Tata, which were a review, blog post, poster, flyer, social media post, print advert, perhaps a poem on Insta gram tagged as #WinABolt; and a You Tube video on which the #WinABolt and the URL on the TataMotorsSA Face book page are linked. Get at least 100 likes Contestants who are not sure of generat ing at least 100 Likes on their post need not enter, for that is the limit Tata wants for any entry to be considered eligible for entry into the competition. Oh, and don’t include a vehicle other than the Tata Bolt in any of the postings. That will also nullify your entry. The person whose Bolt photo and fea ture description is the best will win a Ta
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VW SALES ALSO DROP IN UK
Calling all petrolheads, a test drive in the new Mustang is one Christmas you should not miss, and with prices starting at R700k for the 2,3litre Mustang, this pony car is also half the price of the super cars it competes with in the funtodrive stakes. PHOTO: QUICKPIC
Super car respect CONTINUED FROM P1 jet, the interior is drivercentred and functional with chromed switches, vibrant dials and ambi ent lighting. The Mustang com mands a level of respect that sur passes even a super car. Yes, people may stop and stare when you pull up in a Ferrari, but while driving in the Mother City with the Mustang’s top down, people saluted. And that is what this car is. It is history redefined. It stands for something more than commuting or racing. It stands for the road less trav elled — pure driving autonomy. SAFETY FIRST It is safe too, for a muscle car. In a press statement, Ford said the advanced new Forddevel oped stability control system is tuned to maximise Mustang’s dynamic capabilities. When the time comes to turn up the wick at a track, new Mus tang GT includes standard launch control on manualtrans mission models that enables drivers to achieve smooth, con
sistent starts every time. The Electronic linelock and launch control technology — standard on the Mustang GT with manual transmission – can help drivers achieve more con sistent performance from run to run. With the electronic linelock feature enabled, when a driver re leases the brake pedal, the hy draulic control unit for the stabil ity control system will keep the front brakes locked while releas ing the rear brakes. When Mustang is sitting in the burnout box of a drag strip, for example, the driver can apply the accelerator to spin up the rear wheels to warm the tyres for maximum grip. This can all be done without having to balance one foot on the brake and the other on the accelerator pedal, or install a mechanical linelock. With the tyres properly warmed up, drivers can pull up to the staging line, engage launch control, and get a perfect cata pult as soon as the lights go green. The Track Apps function includes launch control and elec tronic linelock (on the V8 manu al), as well as an accelerometer,
acceleration timer and brake per formance display. STAY CONNECTED SYNC2 lets drivers control their smartphone and multimedia de vices to listen to their favourite form of entertainment. The system includes voice con trol, Bluetooth connectivity, eightinch colour touch screen, dual USB ports and an SD card slot. The new Mustang’s reverse park ing sensors, with visuals in the display screen, will also help with those tricky parking situations. Ford MyKey is fitted as stan dard on the Mustang, allowing up to four keys to programmed, controlling aspects such as vehi cle speed, audio volume, driver assist features and seatbelt re minders. An individual Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) is also provided. Convenience features in the Mustang include Auto wipers and lights, adjustable LED mood lighting, puddle lamps with the projected Mustang logo, Illumi nated door sills, and 8way ad justable electronic seats (stan
dard) with heating and cooling function The Mustang is also equipped with disc brakes all round incor porating foursensor, fourchan nel ABS, complemented by Ad vanceTrac electronic stability control. On the Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost, 352mm ventilated front brake discs are controlled by fourpis ton aluminium callipers, along with 330mm vented discs and a singlepiston calliper at the rear. The V8powered Mustang GT boasts larger 380mm front discs along with advanced sixpiston Brembo callipers up front for phenomenal stopping power. Pricing • Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost Fastback manual R699 900 • Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost Fastback auto R719 900 • Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost Converti ble auto R779 900 • Mustang 5.0 GT Fastback manu al R819 900 • Mustang 5.0 GT Fastback auto R839 900 • Mustang 5.0 GT Convertible au to R899 900
What Zulu women want, at least on wheels FA NYAWO EVERY woman suffers from what I call deciphobia — the fear of making the wrong decision. Deciphobia is what makes us take so long to reach a decision on most topics, but especially cars, since most women know close to nothing about things on wheels. This is frustrating car manu facturers to no end, as they would like to make the ideal “fe male” car for us women, who comprise at least half of the buy ers on roads today. In the hope of at least getting a short list of what Zulu women want from their cars, I rang up friends and family of different ages. Here’s their wishlist — and it’s a good one for any car buyer out there. When looking for a car most Zulu women consider fuel effi ciency, and this is no surprise since it’s known that women are big on saving! Surprisingly a lot of women would be most likely to buy a minivan because of its carrier ca pacity, yes size does matter!
One of only two fully electric Schnellaster Kastenwagen that Audi’s mechanics had restored earlier this year. Add some LED lights, and Zulu ladies might just buy this Audi combi. PHOTO: AUDI My Zulu women are also very big on the car’s speed, and that is obviously due to the fact that we are almost always in a rush. If given a chance to pimp our wheels we would pimp the body, because we want our cars to be as appealing and attractive as
their owners — after all, “You are what you drive!” According to Zulu women, a car feature that is to die for is ad justable pedals to make driving easy when driving with Loubout ins, because having to take our precious babies off every time we
get behind the wheel is kind of depressing. Another surprise was the number of the ladies I spoke to who prefer Audi above other marques, “because it looks and feels classy”. Oh, and those sexy “eyes”, thanks to those LEDs that look like flashy eyeliner. So from the information above we can conclude Zulu women want all the usual things that make a desirable car — good consumption, comfort, luxury and efficiency — but if Audi de signers ever make a combi, if will be a big sell in Richards Bay. It can even look a little retro, like the DKW panel van made in the 1950s, that one of Audi’s me chanics restored and put back on the road in January this year. It was called the Schnellaster Kastenwagen, or Rapid Transit Panel Van, and had a puny 896 cc twostroke threecylinder en gine. But just to show how the wheel turns, DKW had also made several fullyelectric ver sions of the Schnellaster Kasten wagen.
LONDON — Volkswagen car sales in Britain dropped by al most 20% in November com pared with the same period in 2014 as the company’s emis sions testing scandal took a toll. There were 12 958 Volkswag en registrations in November 2015 in the UK, compared to 16 196 in November 2014, the Society of Motor Manufactur ers and Traders said Friday (De cember 4). Overall auto sales rose by 3,8%, that saw Volkswagen’s market share in Britain drop to 7,2% from 9,4% a year earlier. Other automakers in the Volks wagen Group, such as SEAT, Skoda and Porsche, also suf fered negative UK sales. The drop in sales was similar to the 25% slump reported in the United States, the epicentre of Volkswagen’s scandal. The company, which rivals Toyota for the title as world’s largest
car maker, admitted in Septem ber that its diesel vehicles had cheated on U.S. emissions tests. The sales numbers for No vember are closely watched in part because of a lag of several weeks between the time a car is purchased and registered. The month’s figures for the wider European Union are due on December 15. Volkswagen says it had in stalled the cheating software in 11 million cars globally. It ad mitted that 482 000 twolitre and 85 000 sixcylinder diesel vehicles in the U.S. contained the software. In Europe, about 8,5 million cars have it, though there is no confirmation the cars cheated on European tests. Volkswagen has set aside $7,2 billion to cover the cost of fixing the cars, but experts say the scandal will cost the com pany much more, in part through lost sales. — AP.
An old and plasma coated block. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
NEW LIFE FOR OLD BLOCKS AACHEN (Germany) — Ford is re cycling old engines using patent ed plasma coating technology. The process delivers a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions com pared with producing a new en gine, requiring much less materi al. “We have taken a process that was originally developed to enhance performance models such as the allnew Ford Mus tang Shelby GT 350R and used it to remanufacture engines that might otherwise be scrapped,” said Juergen Wesemann, man ager, Vehicle Technologies and Materials, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
The Plasma Transferred Wire Arc thermal process applies a spray inside of the wornout en gine block that helps restore it to its original factory condition. “Traditional engine remanu facturing techniques can be pro hibitively expensive and energy intensive, requiring ironcast parts and intricate machining processes. The Plasma Transferred Wire Arc coating technology removes the need for additional heavy parts and the processed engine block has a new life as the base of a replacement engine,” said Mark Silk, supervisor at Power train Products. — Supplied.
This Ferrari is for steep slopes The other Ferrari company, Officine Meccaniche Ferrari that makes tractors in Luzzara, Italy, calls its new tractor the Sky Jump, so called because it can drive up hills so steep that the driver can’t see anything but blue sky out of the window. Featuring front pneumatic wheels and rear rubber crawler tracks, Ferrari say the dual configuration endows its crawler with all the handling qualities of a classic tractor with pneumatic wheels and the stability and traction of a caterpillar, all driven by a fourcylinder, turbo Intercooler engine making 67 kW (91 hp). PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Helpful Hints for a Stress-free Christmas By Pieter from Maritzburg Christmas is a time for sharing, for giving, for celebrating life with our friends and family, and for having a well-earned rest at the end of a busy year. Unfortunately, it can also be one of the most stressful times, with wall-to-wall traveling, functions, and bills bills bills. I can’t help make your work’s Christmas party more bearable, but I do have something to say about travel and bills. One of the worst things about going on holiday is getting there. Before you can relax by the pool, drinking bright Christmassy drinks and working on your tan (or dealing with your in-laws), you need to get to your destination. So here are a few tips to make the journey more pleasant: take plenty of water, make sure to fill up with petrol before you need to, and drive a Volkswagen. Volkswagen’s advanced technology makes for a smooth, comfortable, and luxurious ride, no matter where you’re headed, and BlueMotion technology helps you save fuel on those long hauls. Which brings me to my second helpful hint: the last thing either you or your pocket needs over the Festive Season is
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WitnessWheels FUTURE TECH MOTORING
December 10, 2015
Power paper packs a punch A sheet holds as much charge as a supercapacitor, now the question is how to make lots of it RESEARCHERS at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Or ganic Electronics, Sweden, have published the results of a new “power paper” in Advanced Sci ence. They report the power paper, which consists of nanocellulose and a conductive polymer, has an outstanding ability to store ener gy. One sheet, 15 centimetres in diameter and a few tenths of a millimetre thick, can store as much as 1 Farad, which is similar to the supercapacitors currently on the market. The power paper can also be recharged hundreds of times and each charge only takes a few seconds. Professor of organic electron ics Xavier Crispin described the power paper as “a dream product in a world where the increased use of renewable energy requires new methods for energy storage”. The material, power paper, looks and feels like a slightly pla sticky paper and the researchers have amused themselves by us ing one piece to make an origami swan — which gives an indication of its strength. Jesper Edberg, doctoral stu dent who conducted the experi ments together with Abdellah Malti, who recently completed
Power paper being stretched to show its elasticity. Billed as a dream product for a power hungry world, this piece of power paper holds as much charge as supercapacitors and can be recharged hundreds of times and each charge only takes a few seconds. PHOTO: SUPPLIED.
his doctorate said the new cellu losepolymer material has set a new world record in simultane ous conductivity for ions and electrons, which explains its ex ceptional capacity for energy storage. It also opens the door to continued development toward
even higher capacity. Unlike the batteries and capac itors currently on the market, power paper is produced from simple materials — renewable cellulose and an easily available polymer. It is light in weight, it requires no dangerous chemicals
or heavy metals and it is water proof. The Power Paper project has been financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation since 2012. The next challenge is to devel op power paper on an industrial
McLaren shows what is already possible MCLAREN says MP4X con cept race cars show the future of F1 racing, because every thing in this concept race car is available. With recharging of batter ies for electric motors to hap pen through inductive cou pling in the track means that the entire powertrain was re thought. This, in turn, meant that the chassis was com pletely rethought as well. “With a new approach to the internal combustion en gine you could radically redis tribute the chassis layout at the rear of the car, with differ ent areas that could be ex ploited aerodynamically,” says Anthony Law, systems engi neer, McLaren Applied Tech nologies. The structure of the car isn’t just electrified to store energy, it’s also resilient and nearly unbreakable. If two cars made of a material that absorbs impacts and then re turns to its original shape col lide … well, they would hit, crumple, and then reform to their original shape. The car can also change its shape to aid aerodynamics on the fly. The surfaces of the MP4X’s bodywork can be electrified to cause a change
McLaren showed the future of F1 racing in the MP4X, with adverts that display differently for each viewer and body panels that change shape, among other tricks. PHOTO: SUPPLIED in shape when certain aerody namic loads or conditions would improve performance. When the current is cut off, the materials return to their original shape. The air around the car can also be plasmafied. Electrodes in the surface of the car’s wings electronically control the McLaren MPX4’s aero dynamics, dialling in down force for cornering and out ward for straights. With pow erful electrical charging during the turns, these same electrodes would turn air into plasma around those aero wings, removing drag.
“It’s banned in the current F1 regs, but it’s great for achieving high top speeds, particularly at circuits like Monza, where you want to shed all the downforce along the straights and then turn it back on again for the corners,” says Geoff McGrath, chief in novation officer, McLaren Ap plied Technologies. Finally, the bread and but ter of racing — advertise ments. Sponsorships could be tuned to better appeal to race goers and fans. Conventional stickers will be replaced by digital billboardstyle adver tisements at key positions on
the car. These could be lever aged to reflect ads that closely match the browsing history of a fan’s smartphone or gad gets, for example. One person watching on television might see an ad for breakfast cereal, while anoth er, watching the same car in the same race at the same time, might see an ad for Car ibbean vacations. We see that not only is the McLaren MPX4 a beautifully far out concept in terms of ap pearances, but it’s a vision of the technology with potential to drive changes in the sport. — Gizmag.
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scale. The researchers have received SEK 34 million (R58 million) from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research to continue developing a machine to produce power paper. — Wheels Reporter.
V XAVIER CRISPIN Professor of organic electronics
“A dream product in a world where the increased use of renewable energy requires new methods for energy storage”
FAST CHARGE FOR PORT LOADERS EVERY week sees another an nouncement of fast charging stations for electric cars being set up along American and Eu ropean roads for electric car drivers, and now shipping ports have joined the trend. Finnish manufacturer Kalmar announced it will introduce the first fast charging solution for electric powered shuttle and straddle carriers. Using the same pantographs on electric buses, the giant con tainer handling machines will charge their lithiumion batter ies using direct current wires erected at strategic stopping points on their working routes. A typical charging time in op eration is 30 to 180 seconds, and with the maximum charging power of 600 kW, full charge can be achieved in a few min utes. Vice president of Horizontal Transportation at Kalmar Dr Tero Kokko said the technology has been extremely well re ceived by the market. “We have long experience in lithiumIon technology in hybrid
New fast chargers allow this electric straddler to top up its batteries in halfaminute. PHOTO: SUPPLIED machines, and this develop ment is a natural next step in re ducing emissions. “This latest complement to our portfolio will provide excel lent value to terminals which are facing even tighter environmen tal requirements.” — WR.
Good news for hydrogen fans Hydrogen fans (whose ranks do not include this paper) last week got good news after a Hyundai Tucson set a new land speed record for a production hydrogenpowered SUV. The sport ute also got there the way old racers did — on its old wheels, thanks to the Tucson’s high road clearance. The new speed record is 152,2 km/h over the Soggy Dry Lake Bed in California desert, but when driven at more sedate speeds, Hyundai states an EPAestimated driving range of 426 kilometres for its fuel cell SUV. But there is no answer yet to the problem of finding a hydrogen fuel station to tank up at, with Hyundai saying only ‘the infrastructure in California is rapidly growing, with nearly 50 forecasted to be in operation in 2016’. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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WitnessWheels MOTORING RACING
December 10, 2015
Young cedes title to Jarvis Savvy ride sees medal for the fastest rider on the Mother of All Enduros going back to the UK BRITISH enduro superstar Gra ham Jarvis toppled South Africa’s defending champion Wade Young in a race to the finish in last weekend’s threeday Roof of Africa enduro bike race in Leso tho. Just over 20 minutes separated Jarvis on his Factory Team Husq varna from the rest. The British rider’s solid technical skills saw him peeling away from the pack on the final climb to become un catchable and win in a time of 6:00:21 to Young’s 6:21:06 on the final day (Saturday, Decem ber 5, 2015). Riding for Brother Leader Tread KTM, Young had led for a large part of the threeday race, and fought off his teammate Travis Teasdale and Proudly Bid vest Yamaha’s Brett Swanepoel for second place. After the race, the diffident thanked his sponsors and friends for making his success possible. Motulbacked rider Swane poel and Teasdale meanwhile fought an epic battle of their own on the final day’s racing, racing neckandneck most of the day with Swanepoel finally coming in just 22 seconds ahead of Teasdale to claim third. “He [Teasdale] was on my tail the whole time. He didn’t give me a chance to make any mistakes, but I finally saw a tiny gap and just took it,” an exhausted
Celebrating after a tough threeday battle in the Roof of Africa in Lesotho, Graham Jarvis of the UK (centre) with Wade Young (second) and Brett Swanepoel third). PHOTO: THE GREEN ROOM
Swanepoel said after the finish. Both riders said the final climb had left zero margin for line er rors, pushing them to balance caution and speed against sheer exhaustion in the final section of the day. The first female rider home was Kirsten Landman, who post ed on Twitter afterwards: “Suc cess comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best that you are capable of be coming.” Steven Lurie of the race’s offi cial lubricant partner Motul said another female rider who deliv ered a “standout showing” was 17yearold Motul rider Natasha Rugani, who took the leap up to Silver class, after a good showing in Bronze last year.
After missing the time bar by 30 minutes on day two, she was back out on the final day and de termined to finish. “She showed tremendous guts and courage and is a talented young female rider to watch, who will no doubt be back next year for her medal,” Lurie said. “The course added a lot of value to the race. The Roof is counted as an extreme enduro
so the guys want to get out there and tackle lots of technical stuff and finish fast, not just rack up a huge amount of hours in the saddle,” Lurie said. Lurie applauded the outstand ing performance by Motul backed riders — in addition to Swanepoel’s podium finish, the other highlight was a fifthplace comeback by 10time South Afri
can National Champion Jade Gutzeit, 2003 winner of the Roof, in a final day’s time of 7:03:24. Gutzeit’s Proudly Bidvest Yama ha teammate Kenny Gilbert, al so backed by Motul, was close be hind him in 7:04:55 for sixth place. On Motul’s partnership with the Roof of Africa, Lurie said: “This type of event not only tests riders to the extreme, but also their machinery. Our high quality technical products support max imum performance in extreme conditions beyond the normal and it is great to see the benefit to the riders here.” Running since 1969, the Roof of Africa is one of the oldest mo torbike races in the world. The race’s legendary tough ness — with its steep and twist ing gravel mountain passes, deep river crossings, and narrow, rocky donkey trails — was in evidence yet again with more than 100 of the 400 competitors not making it to the final day’s racing. — Maven Connection.
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