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World records broken, personal best times set at Mkuze Drags

By Jehran Naidoo for Auto Rush

In an action packed weekend, hundreds of speedsters flocked to Mkuze Airfield in KwaZulu-Natal for Kas Moodley’s racing in the mountains. 

With 85 entrants on Saturday and 72 on Sunday, spectators got to witness some of the country’s fastest cars lay it down.

Loco Motorsport – Home of the world’s Fastest Golf 6R

Cameron’s blue Golf 6 R parked at Mkuze on Saturday morning.

Cameron Moodley of Loco Motorsport put up a brilliant performance. After experiencing car problems on Saturday, the team spent most of the event fixing the blue Golf 6R.

“Cameron and his team spent the entire night fixing that Golf 6. About 2pm the next day, he came up to me and said he was ready to go for it. He was chasing that world record with the Golf 6R. 

“On the first run out after fixing the car, he broke the world record and ran a 9.818 second quarter mile,” Kas said. 

The transfer box broke around 12pm on Saturday, Cameron explained.

The team from The 357 and Cameron working on the Golf 6

“The mechanics from The 357 were helping me fix it. The entire transfer box broke and twisted inside the gearbox so we had to remove a lot of parts. We even had to drop the subframe. We worked on the car from 12pm to 2am on Sunday morning,” Cameron said. 

With the last arrow in his quiver of attack, Cameron’s team got the car ready and went for the world record. 

“Just after 2pm, the car was ready. We set it to low boost to test the new transfer box but it broke again. The car was set to 2.4 bar boost but we still managed to make the 9.81 second run. I wanted to go 9.6 seconds at 3 bar boost but we had to retire the car,” Cameron said. 

He now owns the fastest Golf 6 R in the world. 

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Dragsters enter 8 second club

Notorious drag racer, ‘John Wick’ made a debut 8-second run on Sunday with his white Audi RS3.

The RS3 ran an 8.92 second @ 265 km/h with a 1.5 second 60 foo quarter mile.

John Wick’s RS3 at Mkuze on Saturday.

KwikLee Racing’s Yurisa Naidoo in her TTRS was the fastest on Saturday. She ran a new personal best of 8.87 seconds @261 km/h with a 1.49 60ft.

Casper Combrink’s BMW M3 ran the quickest time on Sunday, with a 8.81 second quarter mile at 260 km/h. 

KZN Motor Racing’s Kas Moodley said: “There were some really fast cars out this weekend but big ups to Yurisa and Casper. They both set new personal bests. Yurisa was the overall winner on Saturday and Casper won on Sunday.”

Casper’s M3 and Yurisa’s TTRS – the fastest cars of the event.

Naturally aspirated or nothing

The four-cylinder aspirated side of things sounded more enticing, with throttle bodies echoing off the Mkuze valley walls. 

Pretoria racer Lucky Tladi dominated the “4S04” class on Saturday in the Murbros Nissan Sentra VVL. Nathaniel Murray, the driver, ran an 11.575s @ 194 km/h to win the class on Saturday.

Miten Naran, the flying attorney, was behind Lucky in his orange VW Beetle. Miten’s Beams powered beelte ran 11.8s @ 194 km/h to place second on Saturday. 

Muhammed Abib in his white Golf 1 place third on Saturday, with a 12.232 @ 183 km/h. 

Muhammed Abib’s n/a Golf 1

Abib was pushed out of the podium on Sunday, following the arrival of Denzil’s Auto.

Trivolin Pather took their 2L 20 valve aspirated golf across the 402m stretch in 10.6 seconds @ 217 km/h. 

Lucky placed second on Sunday with 11.471 seconds, while Miten finished third at 11.494 seconds.

“The top three aspirated class winners all moved down one place on Sunday because of Denzil’s Auto. Their Golf 1 was really something. They managed to run a 10.6 second run. If I am not mistaken, that is 0.1 seconds off the fastest aspirated golf in the country,” Kas said.

“On to the next one”

Kas Moodley speaks to racers during the drivers meeting on Saturday morning.

“The track really came alive on Sunday. All of the rubber from Saturday helped with traction and people were setting new personal best times from the morning,” Kas added. 

With the October event behind him, Kas said he is looking forward to this year’s finalè at Mkuze on December 7 and 8

“We usually clean the strip after an event but this time we have a deal in place to leave all the rubber down. We will only clean up after the December event. So all of the rubber from this weekend will stay there, so December is going to be a cracker event,” Kas said. 

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