For those of you that dont know Otto Graven is over in the USA taking part in the Forumla Drift Series, Team Monstermob shipped over Otto’s famous 350Z to take part in one of the worlds biggest Drifting events. This is a bit of a picture diary we have put together so you guys can follow a bit of Otto and his teams progress so far.
Whats an adventure to the US with out a bit of NASCAR?

Otto and Team making their way to one of the Formula Drift destinations. Take …

This is a short video clip of what went down at the last SupaDrift series session at Zwartskop raceway. Some skill full driving can be seen by some of the competitors. It seems that SupaDrift is a very competitive drift series in Gauteng. One would hope to see something of the same caliber down here in Cape Town
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Otto Graven and Team Monstermob are over in the States taking part in the Formula Drift series and have changed up their car livery to show some South African support. South Africa has the means and skill to take part in such an event as Formula Drift
Best of luck to the Team and Otto, Show the world what we are capable of.

Drifting in South Africa is growing at a amazing rate and just like any other form of motorsport you want to start from a young age that is exactly what this teenager is doing. This week we managed to catch up with one of South Africa’s youngest professional drifters, Jason Webb.
AM: Howzit Jason, thanks for putting some time aside to do this interview with us. Can you quickly tell us what age you started getting involved in Motorsport?
Webb: I think it was from the day I was born my dad …

While keeping close tabs on one of South Africa’s pioneering drifters, we thought it would be great to catch up with Otto Graven again and see what Otto and his team at Monster Mob have been up to.

AM: In our last interview with you the question came about why you had changed from your R33 Skyline to a Nissan 350Z. We notice you have not just mastered the V6, but you decided to get rid of the Nissans V6 motor and replace it with a beefy V8 Corvette C5R motor. …

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So this past weekend, Pro Drift South Africa kicked off with its first round of the new Development Series.  Another Monstermob Raceway initiative.  There are alot of guys out there that want to compete, unfortunately they either live too far away from the main drift circuits or they dont know how to go about it.
Monster Mob sent out an invitation to the 360 Boys from Kwa-Zulu Natal and met an interestingly talented Pretoria local that goes by the name of ‘Spanner’, and chucked in some of our local Kimberley development …

Its been a rather slow month for the AM team, but things are slowly falling back into place. We have uploaded a whole bunch of pictures to the AutoModified Facebook  Fan page. Check them out if you have some spare time next time you are on the fan page. Here are a sneak peak of a few that were uploaded.