Street racing roars through Soweto

Street racing roars through Soweto

SOWETO will again be swaddled in a blanket of fumes and reverberate to the roar of engines and whine of screeching tyres.

The ruckus will be caused by turbocharged V8 engines taking part in the WesBank Soweto Street Race, an additional feature of the WesBank Super Series National Circuit racing calendar.

 

Catching the drift Souping up cars for fun and racing

Catching the drift Souping up cars for fun and racing

Car lovers really dig the summer movie hit "Transformers II" and love to watch the Hong Kong movie "Initial D" (2005) about an accidental genius in street racing and drift racing.

Some of them transform their own cars, souping them up, refitting and modifying them for drift racing, loud mufflers and all. It can be an expensive hobby. And learning to "drift" isn't easy.

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