The Drag Racing Commission of Motorsport South Africa has formally introduced an official social drag racing class for 2016.
After months of secretive discussion and planning, Motorsport South Africa (MSA) and its official Drag Racing Commission have finally unveiled a social drag racing class meant for the 2016 academic year.
The class is meant to inspire illegal drag racers to transfer their racing from the streets into safer facilities or controlled environments.
According to a post published in MSA's official website, the social class is only meant for road-registered, street legal cars that the average citizen uses for daily transportation.
As a plan to move forward, MSA is willing to create and official national street legal drag log. The official drag log will be published and disseminated though social media. The said log will include all combined points of SLD events that will be held throughout the year in the events that MSA will sanction.
The new legal class main feature is that the cars used for the instructed social drag racing, will need to be licensed by the MSA rather than the individual drivers. The cost of R2000 for an entire year, and will allow the licensed car to be used by drivers who enroll in the program. Aside from completing an indemnity form, drivers who wish to enroll will pay a participation fee during each MSA-sanctioned event. Those qualified to operate any of the MSA-licensed cars will be logged into the national log to be administered by the MSA.
"For R200, your car can be licensed for the whole year. It will be tagged for you in the beginning of the year by professional around safety, so you doing all this illegal stuff, we're now making it legal and this is really just to give these guys a safe playground," said MSA's Wayne Riddell, in a report by Eyewitness News.
The official press release stated that SLD Vehicle licenses can be collected and obtained at any MSA-registered clubs around South Africa. Legal street racing clubs can work together to form teams.
