Fulfill your need for speed
The Rock Raceway has become a hive of exhilarating motorsport activity lately, and the fun just doesn’t stop.
Petrol heads can get their speed fix when the annual Speed Weekend Festival takes place on Saturday, August 8, and Sunday, August 9.
The World of Motorsport ZA (Womza) Tar Oval National Championships will take place on Saturday, when the hotfoot oval brigade takes to the 400m circuit, to do battle for the ultimate national championship status and a podium finish.
Big hype also surrounds the hotrods for this event, as the 2015 Hotrod World Champion, Shane Murphy, jets in from Southern Ireland for the festival, to take on South Africa’s top hotrod drivers on their home soil.
These drivers will also be racing for Womza National status, including the youngest hotrod driver in the country, 14-year-old Brenden James.
Top names like Neville Loosemore, Seef Fourie Jnr, Okert Britz, Rudi Myburg, Nico Vorster, Piet Goosen, Jame Botha, Deon Beukman Jnr and Jannie van Rensburg will also be trackside in their hotrod chariots, ready for battle.
Other categories also racing over the weekend for national status include Kids in Racing South Africa Ninja Class (ages six to 12 years old), 100cc Micro Midgets, 1600 Stockrods, Super Midgets, the V8 Lexus Class, 360/383 V8 Sprints, 2.1lt Pinto Class and Super Saloons.
On the Sunday, another first of a kind drifting event will be hosted at The Rock, when drifters take to a unique gauntlet laid down by the judges.
This event will include earth moving equipment on track, that will be used as clipping points.
Drifters will slide between and around excavators and other strange looking earth moving equipment.
The Turbo Toys drift-off event will be a Smokey affair, as the drifters purposely destroy tyres for the delight of their fans.
Another bonus for the day will be the drag racing event, that will round off the speed weekend festivities.
All car clubs and street racers are invited to come and join in the Street-to-Strip Drags on the Sunday.
The Speed Weekend festival will kick off with events on Saturday when gates open at noon and racing starts at 1.45pm.
Gates re-open for business at 10am on Sunday and the drifting starts at 11am.
Drags will start at 4pm.
