Drifting is on the up in South Africa. More and more guys getting involved in this great form of Motorsport, it is only time until we see one of these concoctions getting sideways around one of our local tracks. AutoModified brings you the latest backyard inventions to hit the drift tracks. Yes these are super gokarts and they can easily snap a speed of about 100km in just about 3 seconds.. Take that Ferrari!

This 1st gokart has a 600cc Honda CBR motor and produces over 120kw for a chase that …

On Friday 1st October, MonsterMob will be hosting the very first Drift Indaba in South Africa, drivers have been invited from all over SA to attend.  It will be the first gathering of its kind and we are super excited about it.
On Saturday 2nd of October MonsterMob will have a Drift Exhibition, with the intention to promote a sport that is still introducing itself to the South African community.  Drivers will also be available for 1 on 1 interviews and autograph sessions throughout the day.  There will be an IASCA …

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 …

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 …

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 @ …

Drifting is becoming more and more popular in South Africa and we recently had an interview with South African Drift Champ, Otto Graven.
The article got numerous amounts of feed back so we decided to grab a couple of action shots that we liked.  We’ve compiled a small gallery of our favourite images and we hope you agree.

Now this is a HOT piece of tech for your ps3. A steering wheel and pedal setup for your Playstation 3 isn’t exactly the cheap thing to start off with when buying your 1st racing game or if you are the lucky bunch that can afford them, it’s always laying around your lounge waiting for your girlfriend to kick it or your pets to have a bite on them. So the guys at HKS have teamed up with InterWorks have hooked us up with a brilliant solution. Apparently the controller …

This is a follow up to our last Drifting article we published “the art of drifting”. We were asked a question by one of our readers, how the rules and points structure work so in response to that this is how things are run.
In competition, drivers are given two non consecutive judged laps to qualify, with their top score counting towards position on the field. Only the top qualifying drivers are allowed to continue into the tandem tournament rounds, with draws in scoring determined by entry speed.
So how do the …