BIO DETAILS

Team : MCC.
AGE : 20
Occupation: WSBK Racer.

At the age of 20, i have become the youngest competitive rider in S.A. i have consistently ren up in the top 3 2009 series.
At Phakisa i won the first race and finished the day as the overal winner. At kILLARNEY i setup a new lap record. The
Having joined the MCC & Honda team. they have shawn much confindence in me and made me an official Honda Factory Rider. this coupled with the fact that i have achieved my National Coours in the sport making me an ideal candidate to compete in MCC Colours.


Career Achievements and Statistics:

  • 2003 : 1st Derbi Championship .
  • 2005 : 1st National cc Title .
  • 2006 : 1st Regional 600cc Title.
  • 2006 : 1st National 600cc Title.
  • 2007 : 1st Regional Superbikes 1000cc .
  • 2007 : 6 International Super Stock SBK.
  • 2008 : 4th WestBank Super Series.
  • 2008 : National Protea Colours.
  • 2009 : 3rd in Championship (2X Overall 3rd, 2XOverall 2nd, 1X Overall 1st).
  • 2010 : Crowned as "THE SA INTERFILE SUPERBIKE CHAMPION"
 
Greg Gildenhuys (BMW Motorrad BMW S1000RR) overcame the effects of a bout of ‘flu to take two close second place finishes in the fourth round of the South African Superbike Championship at the Phakisa Freeway near Welkom on Saturday.  The former national Supersport champion finishing a close runner-up to former national Superbike champion Sheridan Morais (Kawasaki) in both of the day’s 12-lap sprints around the daunting 4,24 km circuit and retains his lead in the overall championship.
 
BMW privateers also put on a good show and Nicolas Grobler (Jonway BMW S1000RR) and James Egan (Thundersport/Ryder Motorrad) took the overall fourth and fifth positions for the day.
 
Gildenhuys made a good start from fourth place on the outside of the front row in race one and was already in second place behind polesitter Morais as the 13-bike field streamed through the left-handed turn one.  The gap between the two remained around the two tenths of a second mark as they pulled away from third-placed Leeson, with the BMW rider closing to within a tenth of a second behind the 2009 champion at the end of lap eight and with four to go.
 
The gap at the chequered flag was 0,378 sec with Leeson a distant third a further 11 seconds in arrears.  Fastest lap of the race went to Gildenhuys who completed the 4,24 km clockwise circuit in a time of 1 min 36,388 sec on lap two.
 
Privateer BMWs filled fourth, fifth and seventh places with James Egan (Thundersport/Ryder Motorrad BMW) edging out the Jonway BMW of Nicolas Grobler, the Suzuki of Julian Odendaal and the Willcox Consulting BMW of Jonathan Willcox.
 
Gildenhuys made another good start in race two, but still found himself behind Morais at the end of the first lap, albeit by a few tenths of a second.  In a repeat of the first 12-lap race, the two best motorcycle riders in South Africa slugged it out with Morais taking the chequered under two seconds in front of the chasing BMW.
 
Grobler turned in the best performance of his career so far in Superbikes with an inspired third place ahead of Leeson, leading the trio of privateer BMWs.  Egan finished fifth on his BMW after starting in sixth place and was followed home by Willcox in seventh on the third S1000RR.
 
While Morais took the overall win for the day ahead of Gildenhuys, the 22-year-old from Boskruin in Gauteng remains in the championship lead with an advantage of 26 points over Morais and 36 ahead of third-placed Leeson with five rounds remaining.
 
BMW privateers Grobler, Egan and Willcox are fifth, sixth and seventh.
 
The next round is at Aldo Scribante circuit in Port Elizabeth on August 6.
 
 

Back-to-back wins for BMW and Gildenhuys at Killarney

Greg Gildenhuys, who set the South African Superbike championship alight last year in the debut season of the BMW S 1000 RR, powered to his second successive Killarney back-to-back victories in round two of the 2011 championship at the Cape Town circuit on Saturday.
 
At Kyalami four weeks ago it was former national champion Sheridan Morais on a Kawasaki who took both wins in the opening round by a whisker from Gildenhuys on the new BMW Motorrad Motorsport-backed S 1000 RR.  This weekend it was the former national Supersport champion’s turn to grab the glory as he muscled the big BMW around the tight and technical 3,267-km Killarney circuit and beat Morais by 0,7 sec in race one and 0,07 sec in race two.  He also won both races the last time the Superbike circus visited Killarney in October last year.
 
As is usually the case, the titanic battle between the top two Superbike racers in the country, ably supported by a closely-matched rest of the field, provided the two races of the day at a well-attended race meeting in the shadow of Table Mountain.
 
Gildenhuys gave early notice of his intentions with pole position for both races after dominating qualifying.  But it was the diminutive Morais who got away first at the start of each race, with the lanky Gildenhuys getting away slowly on both occasions.  It didn’t take the BMW rider long to catch up with his Kawasaki-mounted rival and he outbraked Morais at the end of the back straight on lap six of the opening 10-lapper and resisted Morais’ best efforts to pass right to the chequered flag.
 
Race two was a repeat of the first, with Gildenhuys already up to second by the end of the first lap after another tardy start.  This time the battle was closer with the BMW rider taking the lead on lap five and holding off Morais to the chequered flag by the closest of margins.  The Kawasaki rider actually went ahead of Gildenhuys briefly on lap eight as they encountered backmarkers, but the big man was back in front under braking at the end of the back straight.
 
The two champions showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the field in both races, finishing 7 sec clear in race one and 3 sec ahead in race two.  Third on both occasions was KwaZulu-Natal’s James Egan in his debut race on a new BMW S 1000 RR backed by Thundersport and Hillcrest BMW dealer Ryder Motorrad. 
 
Nicholas Grobler (Jonway BMW) was sixth in race one and fifth in race two, while Jonathan Willcox (Willcox Customs Consulting BMW) was seventh in race one and sixth in race two.