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Don't you just love the month of April? Lots of public holidays in South Africa and lots of
time to just chill. We’ve had such a relaxing month even though I had to work a weekend
away... at Urban RacR's expense of course (LOL). By now, we have a newly elected
president and speaking of new, WELCOME TO URBAN RACR ISSUE 7, South Africa's leading
online magazine showcasing Cape Town's fastest and sexiest cars.
In this issue we bring you the thrills and spills from Saldanha's top-end drags coupled to our
latest video production (it’s long, but well worth watching). We rushed to be the first to
bring you the photos of Streetmods, Cape Town's first “big” car show for the year. Crazy
Corsa Club invited us to their annual dyno day where there were more than just your
average suped-up Corsas. What a crazy day it was.
Our feature car in this issue is one that should please the ladies as well as the guys.
Shampie’s Mini could very well be Cape Town's sexiest Mini around. It's a full-house with
looks (even sexier than standard) and extra “S” power. And the ladies love it!
We've got hundreds of extra pics from events uploaded, so click on the links attached to
the articles to check it out.
That's about enough from me for now so go ahead, scroll down and read on...
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NEW CARS
09
REASONS TO KEEP THE FAITH
REASONS TO KEEP THE FAITH
DRIFT SKOOL
09
TAKUMI DETAILS A FEW MORE GPs
TAKUMI DETAILS A FEW MORE GPs
17
MINI COOPER S
COVER CAR
MINI COOPER S
EVENT
2
3
CRAZY CORSA CLUB
Contents
CRAZY CORSA CLUB
EVENT
800m DRAGS AT SALDANHA
29
plus
• ED’S LETTER 05
• DRIFT PAGE 45
• BACK PAGE 47
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’ Metal
fresh Bertone
What recession?
Just look at these!
Mantide
From the man who brought us
the Mk1 Golf (oh and the
Delorean, the Lotus Espirit, the
Lancia Integrale and the
Daewoo Lanos) comes this
corvette based concept.
Vital stats
Power: 375kW
Torque: 600Nm
Engine: 6.2 V8 supercharged
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Lamborghini Murcielago SV
Lust, thou name is Super
Veloce. This latest and
ultimate Murcielago takes the
V12 as far as it can go, and
that ain’t a bad place hey
boys?
Vital stats
Power: 486kW
Torque: 780Nm
Engine: 6.0 V12
’ Metal
fresh
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Ferrari 599xx
Screw the FXX, this circuit
bound beasty has our vote for
most desirable Fezza ever.
Tifosi or no tifosi, this car is
mind-numbingly desirable
and I must drive it now!
Vital stats
Power: 550kW
Torque: 740Nm
Engine: 6.0 V12
’ Metal
fresh
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’ GO-
’
CAR!
Can you remember the last
time you went go-karting? I
can, and it was horrible. After
about five laps, just as you’re
settling in – you realize that
your hands are struggling to
hold on to the steering wheel
and that the plastic tub –
excuse-for-a-chair is chewing
into your hips. A few laps more
and you’re starting to think
you’ve done a 24 hour stint at
Le-Mans.
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PIX
Alas, I have come across a
much more enjoyable way
to get my kicks. Yes – I do
admit this with a slight pink
tinge… ok – a very pink
tinge to my cheeks… and
that is driving a MINI
Cooper S. Once you’ve
built a bridge over the “it’s
a girls car” and fiddled the
seat into the correct
position, you start to
appreciate the clever
German packaging.
My first MINI-affair was with
a standard S with 16”
wheels. It was raining while I
gently cruised home –
accepting that I would only
be able to start having fun
the next day… a few turns
away from the dealership
and a granny getting in the
way suddenly presented
the typical ‘get out of the
way dammit!’ manoeuvre
and a hard prod on the
accelerator later… it was
the beginning of the end.
Once the sweet 1.6 litre
unit gets up to around
3000 r/min and the
supercharger gathers some
gumption, you are
confronted with quite
simply the most sublime
sound on the planet…
supercharger whine!
Suddenly your Cooper S is
transformed from cutesy
pie honey hatch into a fire
breathing fiend. A few
swaps of the cogs and
you’re suddenly blurring
along the road at very
Nickname:
Occupation:
Location:
Hobbies:
Likes:
Dislikes:
First car:
Dream car:
Most hated car:
Shampie
IT Specialist
Cape Town
Motor racing, vespas, spending money on my cars!
F1, Cars, girls girls girls did I mention girls
Chrome wheels, Violence, garden gnomes
E30 323i automatic
Enzo
Kia
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*It was the
beginning of the end
faster, more comfortable,
easier to drive and just
better…
illegal speeds with
absolutely the biggest
smile smeared across your
gob that you could ever
imagine. I can tell you that
the next morning and a
brief trip to Killarney later – I
had a new love, other than
my wife. A MINI Cooper S
has one of the best sorted
chassis and suspensions
you can imagine and
having a wheel at each
corner – you’re faced with
a Go Kart. It is just a LOT
Now – how, you may ask,
can you improve on
perfection? I’m not sure,
but Shampie has, and here
I will tell you how. About a
month after buying his
Cooper S, Shampie started
improving on perfection.
No custom is complete
without some engine mods
and it is always rewarding
to know that yours is faster
than the next. Among the
mods are an Alta 15%
pulley on the supercharger;
a GIAC remap on the ECU
and a custom air filter.
These mods take care of
improving the power,
upping output to an
impressive 119kW’s ATW –
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*transformed from a girlie makeup pouch
Shampie moved his
attention to the exterior.
This S runs nice and low on
40mm Eibach springs
suspended on Wheelworx
custom painted black 18”
JCW GP wheels shod in
Nankang 215/35/18 rubber,
a sure way of improving
grip and composure albeit
at the sacrifice of ride
comfort. A standard S has
plenty go and more grip
than even an extra 100Hp
can ask for.
The product would not be
complete without some
visual clout – and believing
that OEM is best, Shampie
has opted for JCW front
and rear bumpers with
matching side skirts. Super
sexy centre pipes rounded
off on each side with some
meshing leaves the rear
with a menacing
demeanor. The front
bumper and side skirts give
a lower look and leave the
S hugging the road and
hunkering over the
gorgeously painted 18’s.
Impressively, all Shampie’s
mods have just removed
the ‘girliness’ of the Cooper.
The interior, being loaded
to the hilt with Harmon
Kardon ICE and Sat-Nav
proves to be more than
sufficient. Standard leather
interior in split blue and
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much customizing possible
unless your aim was to spoil
it.
So, in conclusion, I’m pretty
sure you can tell that I
absolutely adore the
Cooper S in standard form.
With the tasteful and subtle
customisations that
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Shampie has made – this S
is transformed from a girlie
makeup pouch into a
handsome hot hatch. If
you ask Shampie why he
chose the S, his reply will
be “It’s faster than a Vtec”.
I’m not sure if he has seen
Zaki’s Type-R yet… I feel a
race coming on… do you?
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saldanha
drags ‘09
’
So your car's been modified, lightened,
suspension up-rated, semi-slick tyres fitted,
maybe even a turbocharged with nitrous. It
can do a 12second quarter-mile, but how
quick is it really?
Integra type r - supercharged
It's been a year and a half
since the last Saldanha 800m
top-ends and this Easter saw
its return. Hosted by the West
Coast Motor Racing Club,
Saldanha Air field saw streams
of competitors and spectators
filter through the gates as
early as 7pm Friday to get the
best possible vantage point;
by 11pm it seemed like there
wouldn't be much parking the
next morning for those still to
come through. With online
entries having closed two
weeks prior to the event, it
promised to be big, with some
serious machinery to be
unleashed.
from beauties with stock motors
to charged beasts, including
Zeemax's CSL. Urban RacR had
its logo on many super fast
machines, including the mighty
Exclusively M was there in full
“M Power” force (my fingers
hurt from applying all those
stickers) with countless M3s
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powerful supercharged with
nitrous “new Suspect” V8
Lumina. On its first official run,
Shaheen had an unfortunate
episode which saw the
programmed nitrous come in
earlier than expected, whilst
still under wheel spin, causing
the rear to come around
uncontrollably. The Lumina
swung around stopped along
the fencing centimetres away
from the crowd. Two gals
sustained minor injuries, but
luckily nothing severe. The
Lumina returned to the strip
later on to set the second
fastest speed of the day, on
four wheels, claiming Class A
honours with 227km/h. Kevin
Burgess in his neat cabriolet
BMW was fourth overall and
second in Class A with a
turbocharged 211km/h. Many
people might have thought
that Dawie Joubert's Ariel
Atom was a Formula 1 car.
Coupled to an awesome
sound this pipe-car
accelerated its way to
205km/h, claiming third place
in Class A.
Class B saw stiff competition
with Johannes Pretorius' E28
M5 turbocharging its way
down the (newly resurfaced)
800metres to clock the fastest
speed on the day, on four
wheels of 234km/h. That's
awesomely quick, in
anybody's driver seat. Rudy
VID
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Roode and Class C's Aldo
Viljoen had a wager down on
whose mk1 golf would be
quickest, with Rudy's twin turbo
mk1 clocking 222km/h taking
second in Class B, and Aldo's
turquoise 20v turbo mk1
taking Class C first with
224km/h. These golfs not only
accelerate fuggen fast, but
put their power down too.
Fadiel Hoosain's 325i turbo
took third fastest in Class B
coming in with 216km/h.
Richard Bruhin in his Honda
and John Block is his 20v golf
took first and second in Class
D with 191km/h and 182km/h
respectively. Chris America
took his Opel GSI down the
800m to clock a speed of
173km/h taking first in Class E.
The bikes were slightly off
previous records, but
blisteringly fast none the less.
Ebie “Flash” Abrahams did as
his nick says, and the
authorities holding the prolasers
probably only saw a
flash as he whizzed past the
800m at a speed of 273km/h
on a Hayabusa with Achmat
Israel similarly quick on his
nitrous induced zx14 with
271km/h. Achmat reckons he
ran out of nitrous on that run,
(note to self, check the Nos
bottle when going to
Saldanha, LOL). Torique
rounded off with third fastest in
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MA Class with 270km/h on a
1300 Suzuki.
Kashief Mohamed was the
fastest in MB Class on his
Suzuki 1000, crossing the
800m mark with a speed of
273km/h. Shamiel Ryklief, also
on a Suzuki 1000, took
second with a speed of
269km/h.
This was a successfully
arranged event by a group
of 5 guys who are members
of the West Coast Motor
Racing Club. These guys
arrange events for the
benefit of the community,
with some proceeds from
this long awaited event
going toward the young lady
injured at King of the
Mountain 2008, Cheryl-Lee
Isaacs. With plans for the
next event as early as
October 2009, these guys
sure know the right people to
speak to, hell, even the air
strip has been resurfaced by
municipality.
Big up to them and the
Saldanha authorities.
Dawie joubert’s ariel atom was a pleasure to listen to
PIX
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’
crazy
corsa club
dyno day
311kw and 580nm in a corsa
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The Crazy Corsa Club hosted its annual Dyno
Day Shootout in April. Now, if you can picture
all the “modified and customised” Corsas on
our roads and on the scene, you can definitely
imagine how many entrants there would be on
the day by members alone.
Urban RacR Magazine was
invited to attend the event at
DynoTech. With the prospect
of the scent of burnt high
octane fuel from the exhausts
of kilowatt-churning, torquetwisting
cars on the rollers, you
know we would be there.
Turning into Goud Street
Stikland I saw a line of neatly
angle-parked Corsas gracing
your left and some more sexy
beasts queued to torture the
dyno rollers on your right.
guarantee Evert Class A's title
at the average of 428,5. The
very shexxy red Corsa of Luc
Lucchesi was most powerful of
The Urban RacR liveried Madza
RX7 entered under Evert
Cornelissen was there. Shooting
out some AVGAS flames the
RX7 turned the rollers to a peak
power of 347kw and 510nm to
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the day at 311,1kw and an
enormous 580nm averaging
a whopping 445,55. This
brings a new meaning to the
slogan “The Lite side of life.”
With various other car clubs
also invited to attend, the 80-
car slots were fully booked by
12pm and if power runs
weren't your thing (I'm talking
to the wives and girlfriends
here) there was a DJ spinning
the decks and general
chatter as everyone mingled.
There were even promo girls
strutting their stuff taking
photos by the sexy cars.
There was even an Ice-Cream
Vendor. Why? you may ask I
suppose Corsa they can!!!
The Crazy Corsa Club seriously
knows how to Lite-up a simple
event such as a Dyno Day.
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’street
mods
PIX
Awesome Colours, a name familiar to many
on the motoring and car show scene in Cape
Town hosted its annual Streetmods car show.
It certainly seems that the
Good Hope Centre has
become the venue of choice
when hosting the bigger car
shows. This could very well
have been the biggest Cape
Town car show of the year,
thus far, and considering it
was slap bang in the middle
of one of the many long
weekends we saw this April, it
was jam-packed with people
and activities alike.
Many have tried car shows
with a hive of activities, but
few have succeeded. As far
as I am concerned, Zabby
and his team pulled off one
extremely successful show.
There was some concern in the
last few days running up to the
event, as Mother Nature saw fit
to give us good showers. With
rain on Friday as well as
Saturday we feared that many
entrants would rather keep their
pride and joy nicely tucked
away in the garage at home
to remain cosy and dry.
stalls selling arts and crafts.
There was something for
everyone's taste, including a
fashion show of men's and
women's clothing.
All the big names in the
industry were pulled in to add
to the displays. One such
display, which was my favourite
We should not have been
concerned at all. From the
have-to-haves such as show 'n
shines' custom mods, hotrods
and classic cars, to Ready D
on the ones-and-twos with
2on2 B-Boy battles, a food
court and even flea market
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for VERY obvious reasons,
included two new vehicles
from the Volkswagen stable,
the Scirocco and Golf 6. With
lines as seductive as the
curves on Angelina Jolie,
which one do I choose?
There were 1:10 drifters in the
basement along with the car
club displays. As always the
RC drifting drew lots of interest
and nice sized crowds.
As far as the car clubs are
concerned, it was kind of
funny to see how the forum
wars which normally rage on
the internet between the
different car clubs and
brands, took a back seat to
socialising and enjoyment.
I tried drifting a BMW upstairs, (I
have no idea what scale they
were) but they were foot
powered so we couldn't quite
get our angles right. Check my
editorial on page 5 for a pic.
It seems that 2009 is going to
be a good year with regard to
events, and everyone can
learn from these types of
successful shows.
Give the people what they
want and they will come in
their thousands!
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dRIFT SKOOL WITH
TAKUMI-SAN!
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MSC
lesson#2
japan
Like D1SL, the MSC Challenge series is aimed at grassroots drifters. The MSC
series was actually a spin-off from the old BM Hai drift competitions that
were held by Battle Magazine. It was started by HKS works drifter and Super
GT Driver Nobuteru Tanaguchi aka N.O.B (No One Better) and Famed Super
GT, former D1GP Judge and Toyota Supra maniac Manabu “Max” Orido
from RS*R and Ridox. Many drivers can be seen competing in both D1SL
and MSC. One of the most exciting parts of MSC events are the triple class
competitions (my personal favourite) where three cars enter as a team and
are judged on their co-ordination while drifting (Team Burst and Team
Magician are 2 crews to look out for). MSC competitors are broken into
different classes depending on their performance. MSC also has a
relationship with Formula D in the US and the EDC in Europe.
Formula Drift
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Headmaster Takumi returns with yet another
effort to skool us drift noobs. This time he picks
up where he left off, that’s right - he showed
us the top three Japanese tourneys last
month and this month he expands our drift
universe beyond what we previously thought
existed. Go Takumi-san!
Started in 2004, Formula Drift is the biggest drifting series in the United States
by far. Drivers from all over the world are now competing in F.D. events
which are held all over the country. The number of factory-backed teams
competing in F.D. show just how big this series has become. Recently,
Formula D has expanded outside of the United States with events in
Singapore and Mexico. It now seems that Formula D is becoming a more
developed series than D1 as more and more drivers are heading to the
States to try their shot at the "American (drifting) dream" (haha!). F.D has
what is probably the most varied car roster of any drift series in the world.
The cars include everything from traditional Japanese imports to American
muscle cars and even a Porsche 911! (Hankook Tyres Porsche) Now the
K.D.M. (Korean Domestic Market) has jumped in as well by sponsoring Rhys
Millen a Hyundai Genesis Coupe to compete in this years Formula D events
and Time Attack events across America. F.D.'s events have been broadcast
on national television for a while now and the series' growth shows no signs
of stopping.
After Japan, its off to the
United States where drifting first began its worldwide spread in
r
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Just Drift!
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There are a number of amateur drift series in the United States and Just Drift!
is one of the most well known. Just Drift! events are held at the famous
Willow Springs International Raceway near Los Angeles and is the best place
to see Southern California's top privateers and up-and-coming drivers.
Grassroots events such as Just Drift! have been the launching points for
many of the drivers that fill the Formula D roster. Teams such as the VIOLENT
RUNNING TRIBE and RISKY DEVIL show up “en masse” at these events under
the blazing hot Cali Sun.
NOPI Drift
usa
A more recent addition to the American drifting scene is the NOPI drift series.
NOPI events are usually held on different types of courses to Formula D and
attract more privateer drivers. Last season there was some controversy over
the organization at some NOPI events and a few events have been
dropped from the schedule. As of recently, there have also been some
shakeups on the judging panel. Time will tell if the young NOPI series will be
able to overcome these troubles. I have a good friend, John Coetzee that
competes at the NOPI DRIFT Atlanta events in a Nissan 240SX that will be
sending us some photographs of the cars, gals and drift action as the
season goes on.
After Japan, its off the United States where drifting first began its
worldwide spread in popularity.
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America's northern neighbour also has a vibrant drift scene where
Canadian drivers get to play with all the cool imported JDM cars
that are legal there. (sweeeeeeet)
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European Drift Championship
The EDC is one of Europe's premiere drifting series and includes events held
throughout the United Kingdom and even in Poland. The EDC was originally
started by the D1GB team but it soon became its own independent series. It
is one of the fastest growing drift series in the world and I am constantly
amazed with the level of cars I see competing in this series. Like in many
other countries, a lot of the EDC competition cars were imported from
Japan secondhand. Although it is a UK series first and foremost, the EDC is
also becoming a popular choice for drivers outside of the area. If you
needed any proof of how big the EDC is getting, Japanese D1 stars from
the famed TEAM ORANGE, Kumakubo and Tanaka can now be seen
competing in the EDC in their Subaru GDB’s. Some people do say that the
entertainment side of the EDC can be a little too "straight" at times. EDC
action is broadcast across Europe on MotorsTV which is their equivalent of
Speed Channel in the States.
Europe has been experiencing tremendous drifting growth in the
past few years. There are several different competing European
drift series which are battling for the top position. So far no
dominant series has emerged and all of them seem to have their
strengths and weaknesses.
Drift Mania
canada
Drift Mania is one of Canada's biggest drift series. Originally established in
2004, the 2008 Drift Mania season included six events. Drift Mania also has a
strong relationship with its stateside neighbor, Formula D. Formula D judges
have been featured in the series and F.D. drivers Calvin Wan and Ross Petty
have recently been seen competing in Drift Mania events.
After Japan, its off the United States where drifting first began its
worldwide spread in popularity.
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