With customised cars and the sound of roaring engines, pupils at Daniel Pienaar Technical High School are living every boy’s dream at the only known school in the country — and one of only three in the world — to offer motorsport as an extra-curricular activity.

Boasting their very own racing circuit alongside a professional rally team, the fresh-faced drivers ended the racing season on a high after entering two teams into the Sports Car Club Rally at the Longmore Forest race course — a notoriously difficult track...