What better way to spend a lazy spring afternoon in Lahore then to watch karts zooming past you in speed. And that too not aimlessly but with ambitions to bring some good fame for the country at a time when even friends like Saudi Arabia are expressing their concerns on what’s going on in Pakistan.
Motor sport scene in Pakistan is a very very young promising bud …just four years old and it has already produced names like Adnan Sarwar (Pakistani racing driver who drives in Formula Asia 2.0 for ART Racing team). He has joined hands with Racing Pakistan in collaboration with smart and heavy corporate sponsors to provide a career ladder for passionate amateurs to make it to international racing.
Motor sport scene in Pakistan is a very very young promising bud …just four years old and it has already produced names like Adnan Sarwar (Pakistani racing driver who drives in Formula Asia 2.0 for ART Racing team). He has joined hands with Racing Pakistan in collaboration with smart and heavy corporate sponsors to provide a career ladder for passionate amateurs to make it to international racing.
Velocity Team Kart from Islamabad!
The Final Round today of the Super Challenge Karting Championship 2009 was managed by J&S Event Management at the vast and breezy Bahria Town in Lahore. Their PR Manager Rida Sarfraz tells me that the Karts warm up first by taking a few practice laps, then come the qualifying laps and its important how fast karts run in the qualifiers because on the basis of that the Karts are let go in the track in the final race. Interestingly the karts go on for around 6 hours at a length. Their engines are not switched off. SO, the final race laps are long and go on for a long time of course.
It’s important for an event like Karting in Pakistan to have plenty of attractions on the side to keep the spectators stay till the end of the long race because frankly you can become dizzy only looking at the karts going round and round in the short demarcated track!
There were cash prizes for the winner worth around Rs.200, 000.
Coming up in April is another event called Sprint Racing Series 2010. It is open for enrollment and any one can participate as long as there is a willingness to dish out Rs.3, 500-5,000 a month as membership fee. The lucky winner to qualify for Sodi World Series in Dubai.
Pat on the back to everyone who is involved in this activity!
Karts , by the way are cars with 200 cc engines with a top speed of 120kph.
The Final Round today of the Super Challenge Karting Championship 2009 was managed by J&S Event Management at the vast and breezy Bahria Town in Lahore. Their PR Manager Rida Sarfraz tells me that the Karts warm up first by taking a few practice laps, then come the qualifying laps and its important how fast karts run in the qualifiers because on the basis of that the Karts are let go in the track in the final race. Interestingly the karts go on for around 6 hours at a length. Their engines are not switched off. SO, the final race laps are long and go on for a long time of course.
It’s important for an event like Karting in Pakistan to have plenty of attractions on the side to keep the spectators stay till the end of the long race because frankly you can become dizzy only looking at the karts going round and round in the short demarcated track!
There were cash prizes for the winner worth around Rs.200, 000.
Coming up in April is another event called Sprint Racing Series 2010. It is open for enrollment and any one can participate as long as there is a willingness to dish out Rs.3, 500-5,000 a month as membership fee. The lucky winner to qualify for Sodi World Series in Dubai.
Pat on the back to everyone who is involved in this activity!
Karts , by the way are cars with 200 cc engines with a top speed of 120kph.
My special thanks to a good friend in Lahore, Qasim Javed for these photos that you can see in this post.
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