The weekend of November 25 and 26 promises to be alive with roaring and skidding when drift cars permeate the Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club silence.
The Monster Energy SupaDrift Series is in town, Secunda, with its third instalment of competitive drifting in 2022.
The 2022 Triple Crown championship is set to be the most anticipated contest in its 13-year history and the promoters, XS Promotions have promised it to be an event to remember…’; as an events company, we have revisited the way the event operates and runs as a production and we have cleaned the slate; we have focused our efforts on the show and are concentrating on all-out familytainment’, says Mikey Skelton, XS Promotions marketing director and co-founder of the SupaDrift Series.
SA’s best drifters will make their way to Secunda’s formidable entertainment facility, whereas the parking lot becomes a transformed passage to the drift facility.
Drift cars are custom-built machines with fabricated angle kits to get the rear-wheel driven machines sideways…the result: big noise, big angle and lots of tyre-shred smoke. So, as the crowd got into sensory overload mode; international driver, Xavier Lachkar hailing out of the island of Mauritius and Zanil Satar, from Mozambique certainly bring an international flavour to the challenge to the rest of the talented field.
Xavier Lachkar from Mauritius will be burning the tyres at a Supadrift event at Graceland Hotel, Casino and Country Club this weekend, November 25 and 26.
Other past series championship challengers, like Jason Webb in his ‘900Hp ‘Monstang’- a Ford Performance Mustang mixed up in a Monster Energy cocktail, come in anticipation to dominate and set the tone for ultimate slides and top points.
‘Motul Oils’ driver from Mauritius, Xavier is making his second appearance in South Africa and is certainly up for the challenge.
“Ever since I was a youngster, I have been racing cars. I started racing with an unconventional Toyota RAV4 and then moved on to a heavily modified Toyota Celica GT4 Carlos Sainz edition. I often finished second or third, but as I was racing on a low budget, the car missed the performance to be a real winner. Afterwards, I quit the motorsport world so I could concentrate on surfing, kitesurfing, and downhill mountain biking.
“In 2021 my talented mechanic friend Roshan Ramdin from Roro Performance built me a drift project car. With this, I participated in the World Stage Drift Event. We won the Mauritian qualifier and ended up coming 13th out of 21 drift cars worldwide. That was a huge boost for my social channels. From that moment, things really took off and I realised I had to start racing again., and now, I am off to South Africa again to conquer the tandem drift and make my mark in the local SupaDrift Series in Secunda.”
Luckily, if you can’t make it to the event – you will also be able to stream the event DELAYED-LIVE via SupaDrift YouTube Channel: XS VideoBox and on Facebook: SupaDrift
The SupaDrift Series ‘sideways craze’ is the art of powersliding through corners at ultra-high speeds. A modern motorsport phenomenon, the SupaDrift Series events are geared toward the whole family.
For more information visit www.supadrift.co.za or follow the series on Facebook: SupaDrift and Instagram: @SupaDriftseries
