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Denis Geyer in his Rotary powered Mazda RX7 as well as a 323 Turbo Rotary. His vehicle carrier will be joined by the likes of Ivan Cotze (Ford Escort Cosworth Turbo), a 600kw Ford Escort powered by a Turbo Toyota motor & brothers Gert & Coert Pieterse (Turbo / Nitro Nissan Champ bakkie). These 6 cars coming from far up country will be a very interesting addition to the day…..
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This weekend’s event update seems to quite a busy one. We have sound competitions track days and drifting events, it looks like this weekend is going to be a busy one.
If you are in there area’s drop by and support your local guys.
We have some super cool events going down here in Cape Town, lets kick it off with some good old street to strip battles.
Street2Strip – The battle continues
This coming Friday at Killarney will be host another Street2Strip drag racing event from 7pm till 11.00pm. The event …
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Over the weekend the Mk1 Boys club hosted a dyno day at DynoTech in Brackenfell.
Quite a few guys pulled in and the dyno results are as follows.
Classes Driver Vehicle Club KW NM Av
up to 1400 N/A
Jacques Peens MK1 JP Motorsport 83.2 139 111.1
Lugen Govender Corsa UTE OCCT 77.3 138 107.7
Marlon Duminy Corsa UTE 76.4 130 103.2
Denver Abrahams MK1 73.7 132 102.9
Charl Carr Corsa Classic 75.2 130 102.6
Antonie Kriegler MK1 …
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We are so excited, it’s that time of the month again and Killarney is hosting its monthly Streetcar open track day. If you have never attended one of these before, we suggest you take your car down there this Sunday and take part in this awesome experience. In all honesty participating in an open Track day is most probably the best bit of driving experience you could ever have. Bring your toys to the track and have some good clean racing fun also bring your friends and family along, you …
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Like the heading says “what’s going down in your area”, this weekend we have a few treats happening down here in the cape.. Apparently the weather is supposed to be a bit crappy but that’s just according to the weather man, so lets hold thumbs the weather holds off a little longer.
So the line up goes as followes, we have Regional Racing at Killarney a Dyno day Hosted by MK1 Boyz @ Dynotech.
As far as we are aware of Cape Town seems to be the only place hosting events this …
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The heel and toe gearchange is an advanced driving technique which allows for smoother driving and braking. Smoother braking means you can brake harder and faster which ultimately results in faster lap times. Heel and toeing is done so that consistent pressure can be applied to the brake pedal during downshifting.
Heel and toeing is done by keeping the top of your foot on the brake during a downshift and blipping the accelerator with the right side of the foot to bring up the engine RPM’s as the downshift is made.
Here …
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4th Gymkhana at Brakenfell shopping centre
According to WBMK, there will apparently be a Gymkhana day being held on the 17th of July 2010 at the Brakenfell shopping centre.
Entries for the 4th Fairbridge Mall Gymkhana in Brackenfell are open. Please note that times will be similar to the 1st Cape Gate Gymkhana as it is still winter and the days are fairly short. This will be the fourth event held at the Fairbridge Mall venue and should once again proved a platform for an amazing gymkhana event in Cape …
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Howzit guys and girls, if you don’t already know about these events going down in South Africa, we suggest you have a look!
There is an amazing day of action packed drifting and shows planned at the Rock Raceway and the Zoopedup “Battle of The Club’s Dyno Day for all you guys up in the Johannesburg area and for use guys down in the Cape, we have the Opel Club of Cape Towns: Fan-Park Hookup and a line up of WPMC Club drags and Day street2strip.
WINTER ROCK MANIA RACING SPECIAL @ …




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