Pac Performance

Well ladies and gentleman, the 2011 Sydney Jamboree has been run and won and what an epic event it was.

We know you're all keen as hell to see all the awesome coverage we have in store for you, so to keep you in suspense and whet your appetite, here's a sneak-peak of what's to come in an upcoming issue of Zoom.

Pics and more over the fold

There was plenty of on-track action last night at Sydney Dragway at the Full Throttle Friday meet. With the Sydney Jamboree on this Sunday, it was the last opportunity for teams to get some track time for testing before the big event and as a result, we were blessed with some pretty awesome passes.

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A selection of images from the 5/3/11 Full Throttle Friday meet at Sydney Dragway is now online here in the Gallery section.

The night was action-packed, with a few new cars making their debuts that really got people talking, as well as a  handful of cars coming over from the Powercruise event at the neighboring Easter Creek Raceway. 

Just in case you thought the quickest and fastest rotary race team on earth had anything left to prove, word is that the 6.58sec 209.95mph Pac Performance Mazda 6 will soon be travelling to the USA to take part in some of the best racing the East Coast has to offer.

Well ladies and gentlemen, the Pac Performance crew are at it once again with their Pro Turbo 20B Mazda6 laying down a critic silencing 6.589@208.65mph pass at tonights 'Full Throttle Friday' meet at Sydney Dragway.

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There was plenty of tough cars out on the track for the first Full Throttle Friday of the season and it was none-stop action right through the night. Unfortunately the buzz of the night was dampened somewhat by a horrific accident involving Steven 'Junior' Abreu's 'back-halfed' RX3 and Anthony Daquino's full chassis RX3.

More info and a video of the accident over the fold

It hadn’t been smooth sailing for the Pac crew in the lead-up to the 20th running of the Jamboree but with a niggling issue finally taken care of in testing and the car in one piece, there was nothing left to do but head north to Willowbank and put on a show for rotor fans everywhere.

Full team report over the fold.

Things are definately hotting up in preparation for Australia's biggest Sport Compact event, the 2010 Jamboree, with crews trying to squeeze in as much testing as possible before the big day. With limited opportunities to actually get on the blacktop at this time of the year we have seen a few private test days organised on automotive forums such as this meet we caught on Monday (19/07/10) at Sydney Dragway.

There were a number of top level cars attending including Pac Performance in the Mazda6 and we thought it would be a good idea to head down to the track to get a sneak peak at what we should expect when we make the trip to sunny Queensland next month.

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As part of the coverage of the Sport Compact Compak Attak event in the latest issue of Zoom (page 73), the PAC Performance Mazda6 race car piloted by Rocky Rehayem was described as having "suffered engine problems running in Pro Turbo".

Unfortunately the event coverage was written by a rotary novice who did not understand that rotaries in general and in particular high performance methanol-fuelled rotaries tend to blow smoke on start up, when free revving and on the back off. Basically everywhere except when under full power and, in the case of the Pac Performance Mazda6, running the quickest and fastest rotary passes in the world. Rocky Rehayem and the Mazda6 did not suffer engine problems.

Pac Performance are arguably the best and most professional race team in Sport Compact drag racing in Australia and their performance, mechanical and fabrication workshop is one of the best in the world. 

After all 6.752sec and 209.98mph don't lie. The MPH record was run at Compak Attak, which would've been a better caption than 'engine problems'! Below is a video of the 6.752sec record setting pass. (Zoom editor, Adrian Hodgson, is the announcer in the video and gets louder than usual when he excitedly realises just how quick the Pac Performance Mazda6 went.)