Pakistan Express Racing Team

Our friends with the Xtreme Autocross Championship in Karachi, Pakistan held the second round of their 2009 championship this weekend. Pakistan Express provided PakExp shirts for the officials and all winners. Here’s a short report from this event:

Xtreme Autocross Championship 2009 – Round 02 was held at the Fountain Parking Lot, Clifton Block – 2, Karachi. The participants reported at the venue by 06:30pm after Technical Inspection of their vehicles, they were allowed to take the course walk of the track. The drivers briefing was conducted by the Race Director Mr. Asad Khuhro before the race started. The race was flagged off by the Minister for Excise & Taxation at 09:00pm. This race was very closely contested by all participants in every category. The fastest time of the day was posted by Mr. Nadir Magsi driving Mitsubishi Evolution 8. There were total of 05 categories, winners for the categories were

C-Stock
1st Mr. Ghazanfar Agha 35.29 seconds
2nd Mr. Nauman Saranjam 36.72 seconds
3rd Zainal Abdeen Khan 38.28 seconds

The event was witnessed by thousands of people who kept coming throughout the evening till the prize distribution ceremony which was held right after the race. The prizes were distributed amongst the winners by the event sponsors which included Unilever-Pakistan, Shell-Pakistan, ACE Securities, Roots Oil, Pompei Restuatant and EVAC. The security and the safety arrangements included rescue vehicles, fire brigade and ambulance service at the venue. Xtreme Motorsports had also covered all aspects regarding the spectators comfort with an arrangement of food court, souvenir stalls and sitting arrangements for all women and children. This event was incident free and the spectators thrilled to see Pakistan’s leading drivers in action on a very technically designed track layout.

The benchmark set by Xtreme Motorsports was elevated even higher as the standard now for car racing events in Pakistan. The 3rd round of Xtreme Autocross Championship 2009 is scheduled for August 29th.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the PakExp site.

Thanks for visiting!

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.

We haven’t interviewed Dave yet, but we did find him on an old episode of Overhaulin’.

Meet The Regional Director - Dave Royce from brianmakse on Vimeo.