What is a Motorkhana? Basically it's like all motorsport, in that it involves cars and fun. First you have to choose a vehicle for the day, which is easy if you only own one, anything will do. Your daily driver will do fine, or a van or ute, you can even tow it out if its not registered. 
Then you grab your mates and drive to the paddock or car park where the Motorkhana is being held. Upon arrival you fill in the paperwork, pay your entry fee (which is usually only twenty dollars) and they will hand you a map. This map will show you what order you are supposed to go around the flags on the field, which is hopefully the way you will end up going.
Either on dirt or tarmac, the objective is the same, navigate yourself as quickly as possible from the start of the course to the end, trying to keep your car in control as you swerve and slalom in, out and around the flags.  You can expect to end up sideways alot, and facing the wrong direction, and completely lost as to which flag you should be going around next, but fortunately there's nothing to hit except the flags and you can mess it up over and over and still drive the car home in the same condition you arrived in, possibly alot dirtier though.  The competition is based around getting the quickest time over all the different courses, but it's up to you how seious you take it. The benefits are obvious, by the end of the day you will have learned more about car control than you ever have on the road, and you will probably also have spent most of the day laughing and grinning like a monkey. The only cure for this is our patented laugh harness, pictured below.
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