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Everest Wealth Ridgeway Yamaha Racing once again came back from South African Cross Country motorcycle bout with a clutch of gold medals and top ten finishes. The team shone on all fronts at Maseru’s penultimate fourth round National on the foothills of the Maluti Mountains on Saturday 4 October.

“Maseru proved an epic penultimate South African Cross Country Motorcycle round in Lesotho over weekend!” Everest Wealth Ridgeway Racing team boss Harry Grobler confirmed. “Our Juniors all won their races; we were third overall and also took silver in the Seniors. Well done to the entire team on an excellent job in the mountains!”

Starting with the youngest, Everest Wealth Ridgeway Racing Yamaha’s Ryan Wichman remains unbeaten in the 65 cc Juniors and stands on the threshold of his first South African National championship. Then, Ruald Potgieter made it three out of four 85 cc Seniors race wins so far this season to extend his advantage at the top of that championship chase.

He may just be in high school, but Yamaha lad Murray Smith is a team veteran and he too won the class and came home tenth overall in Maseru to consolidate his lead in the 125cc class in Lesotho. It was also a great weekend for Maddy Malan, who finally found a little luck to power home third overall on his Yamaha YZ 450 FX, while Senior man Marco Cocci scored a fine second on his similar Shimwells machine.

All of which leads Everest Wealth Ridgeway Racing Yamaha in dominant control of the Junior championships and chasing an overall win en route to the South African Cross Country Motorcycle season finale at a venue to be confirmed shortly.