South Africa’s AJ (Allan Jon) Venter is set to be back in roads competition in November, at the Macau Grand Prix as he links up with CF Racing Team 32.
Leading privateer in the Formula 1 Classic TT race of 2015, the Edenvale based racer who has focused this year on his nations national Superbike championship, has been competing around the streets of Macau since 2013.
At present his best finish thus far at the challenging, world famous meeting is 14th from the 2014 encounter on the just over 3.8 miles long roads course.
CF Racing Team 32, set to run AJ on a YZF R1M Yamaha, prepped by Lekka Racing have huge confidence in the talented South African, who’s firmly optimistic that a extremely noteworthy result is more than possible.
They stated via Facebook:
“Macau Grand Prix is just a few weeks apart, but we are getting ready. AJ is in great form, having just won the last race of the SA Championship last Sunday and is very optimistic to achieve his best result to date in this years edition.
We will have a strong Yamaha R1, well prepared by Lekka Racing, and we have this year some new good sponsors to support our Team. See you soon in Macau, for the 64th Macau Grand Prix.”
Words by Stevie Rial