{"id":16991,"date":"2012-12-04T03:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mr-consistency-saddles-his-red-chariot\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T03:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:53:33","slug":"mr-consistency-saddles-his-red-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mr-consistency-saddles-his-red-chariot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Consistency saddles his Red Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Port Elizabeth based production car motor racing ace, Michael Stephen took delivery of a early Christmas present in fiery red this morning \u2013 a reward for winning the 2012 Bridgestone Production Car Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a title=\"Contact Michael Stephen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Sports_Outdoor\/michael_stephen_racing_15786.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Stephen<\/a> and his team mate Tschops Sipuka compete in Class A of the Bridgestone Production Car Championships for the Engen Xtreme Team\/Terry Moss Racing crew.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Consistency, by winning the 2012 Bridgestone Production Car Championships for the second time in a row (See: <a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2012\/01\/michael-stephen-receives-motivation-to-win-again-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Stephen Receives Motivation to Win Again This Year<\/a>), once again received the use of an Audi A4 Quattro for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Audi was handed over to Michael at a ceremony at the <a title=\"Contact Tavcor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/M_,045_From_Machines_to_Mutual_Funds\/Motor_Car_,038_Truck_Distributors\/tavcor_embassy_6954.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tavcor Audi<\/a> Technical Center this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Michael clinched the title at a wet Kyalami on 27 October \u2013 a mere formality as he had amassed enough points to ensure victory at the previous race on 22 September in <a title=\"Cape Town\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyCapeTown.co.za\">Cape Town<\/a> on the Killarney track during the 8th round of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has become the second Audi driver to achieve back-to-back titles after Johan Fourie won in 2008 and 2009. The challenge now is to get a third title in a row and the bigger challenge is getting VWSA to recognise that exceptional effort and GIVE an Audi A4 to Michael.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jaques_Roux_Michael_Stephen.jpg\" title=\"Tavcor representative, Jaques Roux hands Michael Stephen the keys to his Audi for 2013\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0af0d_Jaques_Roux_Michael_Stephen-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Tavcor representative, Jaques Roux hands Michael Stephen the keys to his Audi for 2013\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\">Tavcor representative, Jaques Roux hands Michael Stephen the keys to his Audi for 2013<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Michael_Stephen_Team.jpg\" title=\"Jacques van Jaarsveld, Corne van Gent, Michael Stephen and Jacobus de Beer at the handover of a brand new Audi Quattro to Michael Stephen in recognition of his production car win in 2012.\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0af0d_Michael_Stephen_Team-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Jacques van Jaarsveld, Corne van Gent, Michael Stephen and Jacobus de Beer at the handover of a brand new Audi Quattro to Michael Stephen in recognition of his production car win in 2012.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\">Jacques van Jaarsveld, Corne van Gent, Michael Stephen and Jacobus de Beer at the handover of a brand new Audi Quattro to Michael Stephen in recognition of his production car win in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Elizabeth based production car motor racing ace, Michael Stephen took delivery of a early Christmas present in fiery red this morning \u2013 a reward for winning the 2012 Bridgestone Production Car Championships. Both Michael Stephen and his team mate Tschops Sipuka compete in Class A of the Bridgestone Production Car Championships for the Engen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-16991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}