April 13th - Season 1

The Box Office Marathon

While many people doubted that the race between King Mandla and Touch Mkhize would amount to much fan fare considering that it’s a rivalry that seemed to have come out of nowhere, it seems those doubts have been put to rest.

It was one of the fans on F-X social media that started it when he said that “this race will probably be the most business-centered race of the entire series since it’s not about entertaining disputes but rather about which one of them is capable of selling more tickets.” From this, the interest grew like wildfire.

Fans have now been waiting eagerly as to how these two powerful drawers would try to get the edge this past Monday. With Touch and his talk show and Mandla and his political arena, the Formula-X fandom was abuzz with anticipation as to how these two would collide before the race.

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However the race itself hasn’t gone under the radar as the odds have been placed and they are heavily stacked against the claimant. However those in defence of Touch have compared Touch to Eddie Guerrero — who defeated a champion main eventer to become a main eventer himself.

This online debate did not go unnoticed by Moodswing and Glenwood Jacobs who were definitely interested in seeing how much the race would make in the box office with Moodswing declaring on F-X social media, “this isn’t a box office race. It’s a box office marathon.” He also said that the fan base would definitely get to see the King and his claimant clash on the following weeks of Monday Night Fuel.

While this certainly got the pop he wanted, with this past Monday on Fuel, we can say that he definitely delivered.

April 6th - Season 1

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Highway to the Grand Prix

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen and we hope you had one hell of a break because hell is taking a backseat for what Formula-X has in store for you for the next 8 weeks.

It’s almost Easter which means it’s time to check your faith and make sure you believe because for what we’re about to tell you, disbelief will be the order of the day.

As you’re well aware by now, the biggest pay-per-view of the year is right around the corner and it’s called THE FORMULA-X GRAND PRIX. And it has officially been announced that we are indeed on the road to the GRAND PRIX.

We also found out in the biggest way possible that preparations for this event are under way when a huge billboard was mantled right at a down town intersection announcing the upcoming event, thus revealing the mystery of this big marketing project.

It looks like everything is beginning to come together for this event but before we get to that pay-per-view, we have to go through another. For the first time ever, the ‘Commissioners of Fuel’ released the name of the upcoming PPV: SUNDAY NIGHT EASTER just 1 episode after the previous PPV.

After the announcement on social media regarding the highway to the Grand Prix, Moodswing followed up with the reveal of SUNDAY NIGHT EASTER saying that there were no more punches being pulled as they were barreling towards their flagship PPV and they don’t want people wondering about SUNDAY NIGHT EASTER.

Despite all the major reveals regarding the premiere  PPV of the Formula-X calendar year, the hungry fans still wanted more: they wanted to know what the circuit will look like.

March 16th - Season 1

The Festival gets a Circuit

With only 6 days to go, it’s time to talk about the circuit for the FESTIVAL OF THE FALL.

This insanely designed circuit gained it’s name fast: “The Reclining Chair” . It was so named because of it’s curved back. Although many have preferred to call it “The Dentists’ Chair” due to not only it’s look but also it’s association with pain as they could imagine the pain that the racers will feel curving around it.

The track itself will join a long list of pay-per-views past that have been built around Ngelosi City rather than inside of it like Show-Down.

However despite not taking place inside the city, it has been noted that the eponymous festival for the event will take place directly around the track.

Following this announcement, F-X reporters managed to discover that  the circular part of the track runs along a road that makes up the “English Quarter” — which has been named after New Orleans’ French equivalent for obvious reasons, namely its old fashioned architecture.

It was revealed that this was where the Festival will be taking place and that the Formula-X Racing Club Committee has managed to secure the help of all the local businesses in the area to help make the festival a reality.

We have to iterate how much of a feat this is which is a testament to the staying power of Monday Night Fuel in the pop culture of South Africa.

We also think it's safe to predict that this event will definitely be bigger than Heart-Attack no matter what happens.

March 9th - Season 1

The Autumn Break

In an interesting change of pace, the upcoming FESTIVAL OF THE FALL has been pulled forward to March the 22nd putting it exactly 13 days away.

F-X reporters met with Glenwood Jacobs after he announced the date change on F-X social media this past week.

“The reason that the date was pushed or rather pulled forward was because we wanted to take a two week break; the same break that the schools on the mainland take.

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“As such, Monday Night Fuel will not air for two weeks following the FESTIVAL OF THE FALL and will return on April 6th with the next corresponding pay-per-view taking place on the 26th of April.”

While many fans don’t seem to be bothered by the move of the FESTIVAL OF THE FALL (possibly due to the original date having only been advertised for 4 days before the change) they are a bit bothered by Fuel being off the air for 2 weeks since school terms have never affected the program before.

Glen explained further. “While we understand that the fans are more than willing to continue watching and attending Fuel right through the school holidays, it’s our staff and personnel that we’re trying to look out for and we don’t just mean the F-X racers. They have spent the past the last seven months making magic for the fans at an almost non-stop pace. It’s the same reason that we gave them a break in December. So we’d like the fans to understand that it’s for them as much as you.”

Well as far as we go, we can understand that sentiment. We can only hope the fans can too.