On Saturday night along Durban’s Umgeni Road, illegal racing was taking place outside a number of BP, Shell, and Engen petrol stations.
A viral video of a BMW driver spinning the vehicle in the middle of the N3 highway in Jozi has led to his arrest.
Clearly, the driver of this vehicle isn’t all that worried about the long arm of the law catching up with them.
We’ve seen Cape Town’s street racing culture in the news this past month, following that dramatic N1 crash. Let’s turn our attention to “spinning”, now.
Dangerous, illegal high-speed driving is commonplace in more than 30 street racing hotspots scattered throughout Cape Town and the surrounding areas.
New footage suggests that there was a passenger in the car with speed racer Taufiq Carr. We have confirmation from a source close to the driver.
A video doing the rounds on social media, showing a high-speed crash on the N1, has prompted the City to condemn illegal street racing.
The Advertising Authority has banned KFC’s recently released Street Wise 2 advert, claiming that it’s too dangerous for South African TV.
Umgeni Road is well known as a hotspot for drag racing, and it was the scene of a tragic car accident, captured by CCTV, on Saturday night.
During a drag racing event in Australia, a small section of the crowd was doused in burning fuel as a driver performed burnouts.
It was screeching tyres and revving engines in Cape Town’s city centre, the folks at Drift Racing taking over yesterday.
When your bottom line depends on being the first to arrive at the scene of an accident you tend to drive a little quicker. This is just ridiculous though.
We were minding our own business on Monday night when 2oceansviber, Tauriq sent in this video that he shot at Killarney Race Track of a drag racer squaring up on the line… And leaving his car in reverse. Take it away, Tuariq
Terrible things happen in Pretoria. Three people were killed when their drag race went horribly wrong on Voortrekker Road on 3 April. But that doesn’t mean that it’s anywhere near the best place to die in a car crash in this country.