Speed Weekend Festival returns at The Rock Raceway
The Rock Raceway will be a hive of motorsport activity on August 8 and 9, for the annual Speed Weekend Festival.
The World of Motorsport ZA (Womza) Tar Oval National Championships will take place on Saturday, as the hotfoot oval brigade take to the 400m oval circuit to do battle for the ultimate Womza status and podium finish.
Big hype is around the hotrods for this event, as the 2015 Hotrod World Champion, Shane Murphy, jets in from Southern Ireland, to take on SA top hotrod drivers on their home soil.
These drivers will also be racing for the Womza national status, including the youngest hotrod driver in SA – 14-year-old Brenden James.
Top names like Neville Loosemore from Richards Bay, Seef Fourie Jnr, Okert Britz, Rudi Myburg Nico Vorster, Piet Goosen, Jame Botha, Deon Beukman Jnr and Jannie van Rensburg will also be track side in their hotrod chariots, to do battle.
Categories also racing for Womza national status will include the Kids In Racing SA Ninja Class (ages six -12 years), 100cc Micro Midgets 1600 Stockrods, Super Midgets, the V8 Lexus Class, 360/383 V8 Sprints, 2.1lt Pinto Class and Super Saloons.
Competitors from all over South Africa will be making their way to come and race in the prestigious event, including drivers from Cape Town, KZN, Polokwane, the Free State, Vaal Triangle and other areas of Gauteng.
On the Sunday, another first-of-the kind drifting event will be hosted at The Rock Raceway, as the sideways masters take to a very unique gauntlet laid down by the judges.
The event will include earth-moving equipment on track, that will be used as clipping points, and drifters will be drifting between and around excavators and other strange-looking equipment.
The Turbo Toys Drift-off event will be a very smokey affair, as the tyre-screeching adrenalin-filled drifters will destroy tyres purposely for the delight of the drift fans.
It will be a double bonus for the day, when the straight line, heads-up drag racers also take to the circuit to round up the speed weekend festivities.
All car clubs and street racers are invited to come and join in on the street-to-strip drags on the Sunday.
Events on Saturday will start at noon, with racing starting at 1.45pm. Then, on Sunday, the gates re-open for business at 10am, with the drifting starting at 11am. Drags will start at 4pm.
