The 2011 Execuline Tourist Trophy....Zwartkops 29^th January and Cape Town 5^th Febuary

When all is said and done it was the magnificent performance of Franco Scribante in his Bailey Ford GT 40.

 There are cars that are made to win from the   very beginning         

 To date it has won every event it has entered.

Some racing cars are troublesome, some never make it and then there are some that are born to win! The Scribante orange GT40 was born to succeed from the very start. It was challenged along the way by Ross Lazarus in his red Superformance GT40, but somehow things did not go right with the car and although present at every event did not feature in the results, the Bailey Gulf Gt40 lost considerable momentum with gearbox and brake problems. So the biggest challenge to Franco came from the little 2 lire Chevron B8 of Hennie Groenewald and Jonathan du Toit in the Zwartkops round of the T.T. Series. There was a huge cheer when the little white car passed the GT40 in the opening laps and then steadily pulled away. Shortly after Jonathan took over the Chevrons gearbox selector seized the car into second gear and so everybody cheered again when Franco wore down the Chevrons lead and retook the lead with 7 minutes to go. For the second year running Jonathan landed up being the bride...! The Zwartkops TT produced good racing throughout the fields. Mark du Toit and Jackie Scheckter came home 4^rd overall and 2^nd in class b with the blue Daytona. Ross Lazarus finished in 3^rd place. First of International visitors was the deceptively fast Lotus 23 of Alan Baillie and Mike Knight whilst the very original white McLaren MK 1b with Alexander Boswell and Chris Wilson were sixth…the other McLaren 1c of the Duncan Brothers was 10^th overall. The unassuming Barry Sheppard Nomad was 8^th overall.

Of course the brightest car which appeared in just about every sports car event was the Dutch 1964 Chev Corvette of Michiel Campagne and Frank Wildschu. This car not only won The Car of the Meeting award but also came second on index. The overall award for Index went to Franco Resca in his well prepared MGB GT. The Red Daytona managed to finish third in class and third on Index this pleased the two bankers no end!... Good for business.

This year Nic Parrott decided to leave the MGB at home and brought his 2010 championship winning MGA and was rewarded with a class win ahead of the TVR  of Chris Myers and Peter Collings.

AT KILLARNEY....It was much the same with the Franco GT40 being unbeatable…once the opposition fell by the way side with their problems. This time it was the duToit brothers who tried to keep up with the slightly slower red Daytona. The yellow Campagne Corvette fought the Daytona all the way but was delayed by a longer than expected pit stop.

OVERALL                                            EXECULINE TOURIST THROPHY WINNERS:

1^st        Franco Scribante / GT 40

2^nd       Jonathan du Toit / Chevron/Daytona

3^rd        Mark du Toit / Daytona/Daytona

SERIES TT INDEX RESULTS:

1^st        Mark du Toit

2^nd       Jonathan du Toit

3^rd        Franco Scribante  

Next Year’s Tourist Trophy will be much bigger with the three Lola T70 Spiders, two Chevron B8s and a good few more International entries.

Please refer to www.tjtiming.co.za for all the results

And for pictures www.zwartkops.co.za and www.zoc.co.za galleries

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Zwartkops Tourist Trophey 29th Feb 2011

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