PakExp emerged from this weekend’s BeaveRun event with wins both days in the PTE races and TTE time trial competition and with new track records in each class.
Here we are fighting with the PTD dudes…aren’t they supposed to be faster?
Our first race of 2010 is upon us and we’re ready for some action at Mid-Ohio this weekend for the first race in the NASA Great Lakes calendar. Schedules are permitting us to race one car, so we’re pulling out trusty ol’ 787, who last saw duty at Road Atlanta in December.
Everyone is welcome to drop by, just listen for the ear-piercingly loud Honda Civic or look for our traditional white, green and silver colour scheme.
This photo is the last time I saw these two fine machines, quietly waiting in the paddock at Road Atlanta.
At last weekend’s NASA Great Lakes finale, NASA put together some video clips about some of their members. PakExp became the subject of one of those videos and here it is for your enjoyment.
NASA Awards: PakExp Human Interest Story from brianmakse on Vimeo.
It’s official!
Pakistan Express Racing Team has won the 2009 NASA Great Lakes Performance Touring E Championship. At Putnam Park this past weekend, we ended the racing season in style–we set fastest lap in qualifying, won both races and set fast lap in both races.
In our first full season, we chalked up:
- 10 wins
- 5 poles
- 4 track records
The team won races and holds track records at every track on the schedule. In fact, as we developed both PakExp Honda Civics throughout the season, both cars, 786 and 787, have won races and earned track records.
Matt Johnston added another two Time Trial wins to his growing list of victories, finished second in the Time Trial E Championship and also earned Rookie of the Year honours at the NASA awards event this past Saturday evening.
Decisions have been made about the Performance Touring race on Saturday, August 15, 2009 and updated results posted.
Details are in this report.
Breaking News Update For August 15, 2009 from b makse on Vimeo.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Here’s thirty minutes worth of video from car #787. Faisal drives the wheels off that car to finish first.
Full Race Video From Car #787 Saturday August 15, 2009 from brianmakse on Vimeo.
We have seats available in our race-winning and track-record-holding Honda Civics at the upcoming NASA Mid-Ohio event, July 10-12, 2009.
Seats are available for the 3-hour enduro on July 10 and also for the sprint races on July 11 and 12.
Both cars have won races this season and hold track records at Mid-Ohio, Putnam Park and Grattan. This is a complete arrive-and-drive weekend, from help with membership/licence through to vehicle prep, we look after it all.
Enquire with fahmad ~at~ pakexp ~dot~ com.
For a change, we left 787 at the shop and raced 786 this weekend.
786’s chassis is superb and it’s one torquey little beast–for a Honda–very different from old faithful 787. For an added bit of drama, this writer suffered a major ankle sprain earlier in the week and wasn’t expecting to race, but one hit of Celebrex got him ready for race action.
In race one Saturday, we crossed the line first, but got a DQ for what would otherwise be considered a racing incident. Other people considered it a punt, but if we were going to punt another car with intent, we’d punt it out of the race.
After a complete gong show of a start in race two, we found a 7-second deficit and didn’t think we could pull it off. We knocked off laps a half second faster than the leader and passed for the lead on the second-to-last lap.
It also looks like we’ve earned another track record.