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| As published in The Witness, est 1846 |
Q:
A Cars in the Park veteran wanted to know ‘are young people still as mad
about racing’ as his generation was?
A.
The short answer is more so than ever — despite the fuel price going higher and
higher. On bikes too, with PMB-biker Hayden Louw being just one example of a
20-something youth who is putting everything into racing.
Louw
recently won the third round of the northern regions meet in the Free State.
Follow him on twitter with ‘haydz22’.
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| This is how the young guns do it now and.. |
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| ...this was how rebels got their rocks of then. |
On
four wheels, there is the Extreme and Sidewayz drifts in Pmb and Pinetown
respectively. These events are well-attended and with respect to the elders, the
skills of the drivers these days exceed that of the drivers of yore, if only
because the cars are so much better. On any given night, one can also find a
couple of (illegal) drag races between petrolheads who have — let it be said —
the same cavalier disregard for death as the veteran had in his youth. And lest not forget the legal drifts with sideways Sally the Indisputed Queen on the South Coast.
Q.
My daughter was told her warranty had expired when she took it in for its first
service. Can this be right?
A.
The warranty does stipulate both the period and distance, whichever comes first.
Normally this is three years or 100 000 km, so yes, right it is, but good public
relations dictate that the workshop should try to help her if the period was
exceeded by only a few weeks.
Q.
Will the fuel price ever come down again?
A.
A few cents here and there, but get
used to R12/l. They have us over a barrel.
