The car and the team had high hopes for the race day after the practice rounds on the Friday, the car was running nicely. Unfortunately on the second lap of the qualifying rounds on Saturday morning the engine blew and the team were unable to repair the Astra to be able to race. Next race [...]
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Aldo Scribante – 6 August 2011
“On Friday and early Saturday it looked to be a very promising weekend, but it didn’t turn out that way in the end unfortunately.” commented Michael. On Friday the track was very wet with rain continuing throughout the practice rounds. The Opel Astra OPC was running nicely and seemed to have the pace. During the [...]
Phakisa – 4 June 2011
Round 4 of the Bridgestone Production Car Series took place at the Phakisa raceway near Welkom on Saturday 4 June, delivering lots of racing action as expected. Van Rooyen qualified on pole in the Williams Hunt Opel Astra OPC, nearly a second faster than former SA champion Gary Formato. Race 1 saw van Rooyen get [...]
Aldo Scribante – 30 April 2011
Round 3 of Bridgestone Production Cars took place at the Aldo Scribante race track in Port Elizabeth on the 30th April. The weekend started off very well. During the Friday practice the Opel was quickest, just ahead of the two Ford’s. After some changes were made van Rooyen tried another fast lap, but unfortunately broke [...]
Killarney – April 2011
After the crash at Kyalami the Opel was repaired and a number of minor changes done to improve the car. On the Friday during the practice rounds things did not go the way the team was hoping – the car’s engine blew. With Williams Hunt Cape Town providing parts to repair the engine the team [...]
Kyalami – March 2011
With all the work to get the car ready now done, the day had now come for the first of the Bridgestone Production Car races at Kyalami, 5th March 2011. The car had run nicely at practice on the Friday but during the last session the team picked up an issue with the engine and [...]
The begining
At the end of 2010 Michael van Rooyen approached Williams Hunt to see if we would be interested in getting involved in a Bridgestone Production Opel Astra OPC. Michael was looking at racing in the up coming 2011 production car series. Williams Hunt agreed to be one of the sponsors to back Michael and we [...]
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