Motorsport

The first race in the Bank Windhoek Namibian National Enduro Series will take place at the Tony Rust race track this coming Saturday, 11 February 2012.

This event, co-sponsored by Propshaft Engineering, is also the first round of the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme - International Motorcycling Federation) Africa Southern Off-Road Challenge (SORC).

Riders from Zambia, Botswana and South Africa will compete against their Namibian counterparts over rough and very rocky terrain.

The Bank Windhoek Namibia Motor Sport Federation (NMSF) Namibian National Enduro Series will for the third consecutive year be supported by Bank Windhoek as series sponsor under the auspices of the Namibian Enduro Club.

Nora Ndopu, from Bank Windhoek announced the bank’s commitment to off road and quad bike racing for the 2012 season.

“Bank Windhoek is pleased to be part of the Enduro sport in 2012,” Ndopu said.

Veteran rider Andreas Brendel and Fanie Steenkamp both won two awards at the annual prize giving ceremony of the Namibian Enduro Club which took place in Windhoek on Saturday.

Brendel won the Best Rider category along with Steenkamp after they accumulated the most points throughout the season across all classes.

Brendel also won the National Senior Bike Class award ahead of Werner Schultz and Dirk Trümer.

Steenkamp won the National Quad Class with Pierre Cronje second and Clinton Hilfiker third.

Namibian school boy Wilro Dippenaar created history on Saturday when he won the 43rd Total Tara Rally in Windhoek with his navigator Mornay du Toit. At 18-years of age he is the youngest winner in the history of Namibia’s premier international rally, while he is also the first schoolboy to win the rally.

It was a great achievement by the Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaat Skool scholar, who also followed in the footsteps of his father Dippies Dippenaar, who won the rally in 1984 and 1985.