Round 5 of the National Drag Racing Championship was held at Tarlton Raceway on the 5th of August. All in all it was a fantastic day filled with thrills and spills, and of course in the end, good drag racing with a total of 8 new records set on the day.

The fastest time of the day was set by Mick van Rensburg in a Jet Dragster, yes, a Jet Dragster, he flew over the line with a blistering 6.889 seconds at a speed of 408 km/h. Read the rest of this entry »

Wesbank will be holding the Bosal Classic Car Afirca Festival of Motoring on the 8th-10th of September. There will be alot of cars from back in the day racing around the track or just struting their stuff while they park off. The schedule for the 3 days is as follows:

8 Sep – 10h00 to 18h00:

Practice and Qualifying.

9/10 Sep – 10h30 til late:

Porsche Challenge Unltd, Historic Touring Cars Class A to D, Historic Touring Cars Class E to G, Classics Sports & GT, Formula Libre / M, Lotus Challenge, Porsche Challenge 924, Fine Cars, Pre 66 Legend Saloons, Historic Racing Cars, Alfa Romeo Trofeo….and more!

Wesbank say this is a weekend not to be missed!

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Now you can go to a car race and see and hear just about everything that’s going on with Kangaroo TV, a handheld device that can stream 10 live MPEG4 video channels along with audio feeds and data. It’s being rolled out first at racetracks, where fans like to hear the radio chatter between pit crews and drivers, as well as keep tabs on the leader board and see sections of the track that aren’t visible from the grandstand. Using Kangaroo TV, they can receive multiple streams of data while choosing between various camera angles, including in-car views.

Montreal-based Kangaroo TV rents out these units for $50 a day or $70 for a weekend at NASCAR races, where the product is branded NASCAR Nextel FanView. The units are also being rented at Formula One races and the Champ Car series. The company has plans to expand its service into other sports where spectators need to see multiple locations to tell what’s going on, such as skiing and golf, and also plans to cover basketball, football, baseball and many other sports.

I think it’s amazing!!!

This impressive monstrous motorbike is not just one-of-its-kind in its deadly-looks, the bike functions likewise too! The mutated motorbike can not just fire-up the road, but it can go-anywhere in deep mud, on rough terrains and even snow…it can ride smoothly anywhere! The rough-and-tough bike concept is titled the Hyanide and is designed by German designers Oliver Keller and Tillman Schlootz for the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design. The Hyanide is designed to run on a flexible rubber tread that spans the machine’s entire underside. So if any part of the bottom is touching the ground, the Hyanide should be able to move, no matter how deep the quagmire, or how rough the terrain. The tank- cum-motorcycle has a top speed of 75 to 85 mph and it features a 60hp 500cc liquid-cooled single-cylinder engine. The only thing you would hate to know about this ultra-cool bike is that it exists only as a one-fifth-scale model, and Schlootz and Keller have no plans to bring a production version to market. So, if you are enthralled with this rocking bike concept then keep your fingers crossed for the Hyanide’s unique drivetrain impressed the big shots of the automotive-industry at the Challenge Design.

PC Magazine reviews the Lamborghini-branded Asus VX1, filling the entire writeup with terrible automotive journalism cliches. They do compare it to the iTronix ruggedized Hummer Laptop, and last year’s Acer Ferrari Laptop. Predictably, with its 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 and Gig of RAM “Under The Hood”, it’s faster than both. Although, in their defense, the tough Hummer can probably get dropped on its grill without flinching, and the newer Ferrari notebook we wrote about will probably have enough “horsepower” to keep up with the Lambo “off the line”.

Question, dear reader: If a Macbook Pro was a car, what car would it be? Comments!