David Maree (Tasol-GT) got the teams season off to a flying start by securing a spectacular podium finish at the season opener, The New Fast One Classic held at the Midvaal Raceway. Northcliff Cycles sprinter Christoff van Heerdan claimed a surprising victory ahead of Maree and MTN captain Arran Brown.

The relatively flat route provided for fast aggressive racing with the first 30km being raced in just over 40 minutes with numerous attacks from all teams being marked and brought back into the bunch.

40km into the race a crash occurred containing Martin Wesserman (MTN), Richard Baxter and Clint Hendricks ( both Tasol GT) with Wesserman sustaining a broken collarbone while the two Tasol riders were able to mount their bikes and limp to the finish.

50km into the race the elastic snapped as Bradley Potgieter and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (MTN) rode away along with Ian McCloed (Bonitas). Soon Louis Mentijies (Toyota CSA) managed to bridge and then Maree made the junction across to the break taking with him Herman Fouche (Bonitas), van Heerdan and Brown making up a 8 man decisive group.

With MTN having the numerical advantage in the break which included their 3 top sprinters they found themselves doing the majority of the work up front while in the chasing group it was Westvaal BMC and Cape Town Market who led the chase with the time gap hovering around the 1min mark

5km to go, McCleod attacked with Van Rensburg marking his move. That attack was followed by a counter by Meintjies which again was left up to van Rensburg to cover who then himself put in a counter attack with 800m to go.

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