See the full race calendar further below.

NEXT GAS DH event will be the TRAINING CAMP at the new DH track near Malelane on the weekend of 28 to 29 August. NO COSTS to Ride or Camp. Please contact christiaan@gravityallstars.co.za to confirm your attendance and accommodation requirements.

The Race Results for the first 3 TSG Gauteng Provincial DH races are listed below:

Gauteng TSG DH Cup #3 - 25 April 2010 Helderkruin

In total, 33 riders braved the cold front to compete in the 3rd round of the TSG Gauteng Provincial Downhill Cup series. Practice on Saturday was attended by a large number of riders and this definitely added to the quality of racing on Sunday. The event consisted of 2 timed runs, with the best time of the 2 counting as the final result.

The winners in each of the racing classes are tabled below:

Gauteng TSG DH Cup #2 - 21 March 2010 Fort Klapperkop

Here is the photo of the overall and Elite class winner - Ryno Fourie

Elite Men: 1 Ryno Fourie 1:15.31
2 Dirk Van Schalkwyk 1:16.11
3 Cornell Claassen 1:21.29
4 Neil Fourie 1:22.98
5 Marius Snyman 1:24.43
6 Vivian Viljoen 1:24.67
7 Andries Van Wyk 1:26.09
8 Jan Joubert 1:26.52
9 Joshua Liebenberg 1:27.03
10 Kruger Breed 1:27.13
11 Marnus Swanepoel 1:28.26
12 Louis Van Sandwyk 1:30.28


Sub Veterans:
1 Dirk Lourens 1:22.22
2 Matt Smith 1:22.39
3 Laurentius Potgieter 1:27.5
4 Brent Carpenter 1:27.63
5 Damion Van Tromp 1:30.94
6 Antonio Silva 1:32.8
7 Sean O’Flynn Madden 1:35.99
8 Hennie Blignaut 1:41.24
9 Nolan Couzyn 1:41.93


Ladies:
1 Carla Freysen 1:28.68
2 Geraldine van Tromp 1:52.88

Sports Class:
1 Gianperro Orselli 1:24.5
2 Patrick Alexander 1:26.1
3 Dustin Rudman 1:30.39
4 Warren Garbutt 1:30.68
5 Jean-Pierre Du Plessis 1:31.62
6 Ryan Peel 1:33.37
7 Anthony Brookes 1:36.05
8 Kristian Venter 1:37.19
9 Tony Del Hoyo 1:38.59
10 Marco Pritchard 1:42.64
11 Des Ellis 1:43.29

Superman also made a special appearance.

TSG sponsored some cash prizes

Gauteng TSG DH Cup #1 - 21 February 2010 Helderkruin

Hello everyone,

So the first provincial cup race for 2010 has come and gone. Judging by the feedback from the riders this weekend I think the race was a big success. If my memory serves me correctly, we get new riders attending the events every time and since May 2009 the sport has just grown phenomenally. We had four new riders this past weekend and they managed to clean out the sports class on their maiden DH voyage, congratulations guys.

I am happy to say that it seems we are maintaining a rather good standard with our events and all of the compliments we receive seem to confirm this fact. But as could be expected, the success of the events are a team effort and my sincerest thanks to everyone who helps out with the course maintenance and all the many small thing that add value to the events. The format of practice on Saturday and racing on Sunday seems to suite the riders and spectators, and will become the norm for the remainder of the provincial series this year.

The racing was fierce and the riders seemed to have enjoyed the track, even though it is the original Helderkruin track we have been using for the past two years. A few minor changes was made by to the course and I played around with the bunting, which seemed to have opened new possibilities on entering and exiting some sections. Seeing as the all time best time on this very track was in the order of about 58 seconds, I guess the changes worked out well. I have arranged the over all positions below with the category positions in brackets – Elite(EL) Sub Vets(SV) Junior(Jr) Sports Class(SP)

The over all results are as follows:

1) 1:09.81 Ryno Fourie (EL 1)
2) 1:12.43 Dirk Van Schalkwyk (EL 2)
3) 1:14.12 Brad Illingworth (EL3)
4) 1:14.14 Alex Bramley (EL4)
5) 1:16.86 Matt Smith (SV1)
6) 1:17.68 Dirk Lourens (SV2)
7) 1:18.00 Cornel Claassen (EL5)
8) 1:18.65 Neil Fourie (EL6)
9) 1:19.08 Marius Snyman (EL7)
10) 1:20.36 Ryan Frerichs (SP1)
11) 1:20.89 Vivian Viljoen (Jr1)
12) 1:21.17 David Hogan (Jr2)
13) 1:21.82 Josh Liebenberg (EL6)
14) 1:22.05 Gian Pierre Orselli (SP2)
15) 1:22.75 Ryan Peel (SP3)
16) 1:23.33 Tiian Maartens (EL7)
17) 1:23.58 Marnus Swanepoel (EL8)
18) 1:25.86 Warren Garbutt (SP4)
19) 1:26.03 Patrick Alexander (EL9)
20) 1:26.35 Antonio Silva (SV3)
21) 1:27.47 Dustin Rudman (SP5) – Hardtail -
22) 1:27.58 Anthony Brooks (SP6)
23) 1:28.89 Carla Freyesen (EL10) –Ladies-
24) 1:29.97 Laurentius Potgieter (SP7)
25) 1:29.98 Louis Van Sandwyk (EL11)
26) 1:33.43 Mike Kemp (SV4)
27) 1:40.88 Hennie Blignaut (SP9)
28) 1:44.52 Nolan Couzyn (SV5)
29) 1:51.09 J.P Du Plessis (Jr3)
30) 2:14.49 Sean O’Flynn Madden (SV6)

Congratulations to the class winners:
Elite – Ryno Fourie, Dirk Van Schalkwyk and Brad Illingworth
Sub Vets – Matt Smith, Dirk Lourens and Antonio Silva
Juniors – Vivian Viljoen, David Hogan and J.P Du Plessis
Sports Class – Ryan Frerichs, Gain Pierre Orselli and Ryan Peele

Round two of the Gauteng TSG provincial cup will be held at fort Klapperkop in Pretoria on 20 & 21 March. Course building and maintenance will be done on 13 & 14 March.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make this event a success and in particular to Christiaan Viljoen for helping with the organizing and running of the event, as well as sponsoring the prize money from TSG.

There will be 2 sets of Series events and 1 Championship event for 2010, being:

• TSG Gauteng Provincial Cup DHI Series
  This series will consist of 5 Cup events, each time with Cash Prizes for each of the qualifying* race categories as well as product or voucher sponsors as available, with all the points of each race accumulating to an overall Cup Series winner for 2010.
  
• TSG Gauteng Provincial Championships DHI
  This will be a single event with a single downhill run determining the Gauteng Provincial Downhill Champion for 2010. One run takes it all!
• TSG Gravity All Stars Team Series
  This series is aimed at the DH "off-season" and will consist of 4 events. The format will be finalised later in the year but will include both an individual and a TEAM format. Entries will be in the format of Teams consisting of a specific size and profile (a mix of Elite and Novice for example) where the COMBINED times of all the riders will determine the winner of each event as well as the Series.
  NOTE: Team Rider's times from the Gauteng Cup Series will also carry forward to determine the overall TEAM winnner for 2010.
  The idea is also to have teams from other provinces and other Clubs competing in this series.
  

* qualifying categories - requires minimum 2 riders in a category - if 2 riders then only 1st gets cash prize, if 3 riders then 1st and 2nd only, if 4 riders or more then 1st, 2nd and 3rd gets cash prizes.

The 2010 Race Calendar is tabled below:
The dates and venues have all been mostly confirmed but changes are possible and will be communicated.