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Travelling all the way to the Cape did not deter Team Tork Craft bringing home the silverware when the third round South African National Motocross Championship visited a muddy Zone 7 in Cape Town on Saturday. Slade Smith was dominant in OR1 and also won an MX2 heat, while Mackenzie Bam extended her Ladies Motorcross advantage with a strong run on a day where team riders impressed at every level.

Cape Town was a huge day for Sigmafix Tork Craft Yamaha rider Slade Smith who dominated the senior action with three heat wins across the 450cc open class MX1 and 250cc MX2 classes. Slade made the big banger MX1 heats his own with a double win and bounced back from fourth in the opening 250 race to win the second moto for second overall on the day.

Mackenzie Bam delivered another positive performance with two second places to take second overall in Ladies Motorcross as she extended her championship advantage aboard her Tork Craft Junior Team Husqvarna. Katelyn Pretorius was meantime ninth and tenth in the heats and ninth for the day on her Tork Craft Pepson Plastics Yamaha.

It was another good day for Team Tork Craft in junior motocross too. Lourens Erasmus rode his RTR Tork Craft KTM to a third and a fifth in the 85cc heats to grab fourth for the day. Teammates Adam Meyer and Hanru du Plessis’ similar machines came home tenth and fourteenth overall. 

And in the High School action Kabelo Ledwaba was ninth aboard his Tork Craft Husqvarna with RTR Tork Craft riders Cameron Stuckie’s Yamaha tenth and Armandt Milijo twelfth on his KTM.

“It’s never easy to travel to the Cape to take on the locals in their own back yard, so Team Tork Craft can be proud of their National Motocross performance at Zone 7 over the weekend,” team patron Ryan Hunt pointed out. “Congratulations to all our riders who shone at every level.”