Pakistan Express Racing Team

Short version: 18th to 2nd in five laps. Set fast lap of the race by more than 0.5 seconds.

Long version: Following Friday’s epic performance in the rain (crash excluded), we spent most of Saturday in a secret, underground lair of autobody repair often used by the infamous TC Kline. We didn’t make it back to the track until after practice and qualifying, but did manage to convince race officials to grant us hard luck practice prior to this race. Unfortunately, while waiting in the false grid we discovered that the engine wouldn’t rev beyond 4,000 rpm, then missed the session and successfully traced the problem to a dislodged chip in the ECU. We made it to grid on time for the race and this video pretty clearly illustrates what happened.

2008 NASA Championships Saturday Race from brianmakse on Vimeo

Team leader and resident Pakistan Express rain hotshoe takes 786 on an impressive run–until one of these aged racing cars drops some oil on the track.

2008 NASA Championships Friday Race In The Rain from brianmakse on Vimeo

The cat’s out of the bag now. We’ve been busy in the off season building a new 786 and we thought we’d share a few pix of its build.

I wonder what they’ll think when we drop in with an autographed photo of our own 786 race car.