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SMD Jaguar Simola Hill Climb Success!

SMD Jaguar Simola Hill Climb Success!

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2018-05-25

The 2018 Jaguar Simola Hill Climb took place in Knysna at the beginning of this month, and it was the biggest Hillclimb event in its history, with almost eighteen thousand spectators in attendance.

The Simola Hill Climb is one of South Africa's most prestigious racing events and it includes a range of catagories like Classic Cars, Modified Saloon Cars, Road and SuperCars and Single Seaters and Sports Cars.

This year local racing enthusiasts Shaun Duminy, SMD Group Director and Jason Evans, also from SMD Group, entered two monster machines in contention to be the fastest up the hill.

In true Shaun Duminy style, he chose not to take one of his very capable Jaguares to the race, but instead took one of the only Ferrari 488 GTB models in the country to Simola Hill Climb.

Jason took the amazing Range Rover Sport, 5.0 litre Supercharged beast, just to be a little different I guess.

Despite it being their first time competing in the Jaguar Simola Hill Climb event, both Shaun and Jason didn't hold back, it's just not what they do.

Very soon into the qualifying stages it became obvious that Shaun was going to be a contender in his class. The Ferrari 488 GTB was exceptionally quick, making the class leader, Thouca Mechanicos in their Mercedes-Benz AMG Full Race Spec machine very nervous.

In the end Shaun was looking for 0.7 of a second when his car picked up a misfire, however Shaun still managed to get 2nd place in Class B4 saying, "The car had more time in it than I did, quite honestly, so we come back next year."

Jason Evans really took a lot of people by surprise as he slowly shaved second after second off his time one run at a time, saving the best for last and shunting his Range Rover Sport 5.0 litre V8 turbocharged, supercharged monster SUV to an amazing time of 48.8 seconds to win the Class B9 outright.

Watch out for these low level flying racers next year or come and vivit SMD Group Jaguar Land Rover Ballito and see how they live their passion and dreams in the SMD Group dealership, where they are surrounded by supercars and the iconic range of Jaguar and Land Rover models, which you can make yours if you like.

SMD Group's showroom is situated at 35 Moffat Drive, Ballito, or you can call them on 032 - 946 1351.