SOUTH Africa’s most closely contested circuit racing championship returns to AA Kyalami on July 31 with rounds 11 and 12 of the 1999 Midas Group N championship. At the halfway point of the season, the country’s only title chase for near-standard production cars is the most fiercely-fought of all the 1999 national circuit racing disciplines. In the overall Midas Production Car Championship, a total of 19 points separates the top eight drivers. Meanwhile the top four drivers in the Midas Group N Junior Production Car Championship are covered by a mere nine points. The race is wide open as 10 points are available in each of the season’s ten remaining races.