Pac Racing

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.

Read more 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.

Rodney Rehayem’s back-halved Mazda RX3 was never supposed to be racing at J20 but after a convincing discussion with Jamboree promoter Ray Box, the car was loaded onto the truck and sent north from the Sydney workshop to the sunny delights that Queensland holds.

Full team report over the fold.

Mazda Australia have produced a video of Rocky Rehayem discussing what happens during a run of the Pac Performance 20B-powered Super Compact (BB/SC) Mazda6. Mazda is involved in all levels of motorsport, checkout the cool 'community' page on the Mazda site, so we chased up Allan Horsely, Mazda Australia's Motorsport guru, for further comment.  See the video over the fold (click 'Read more').

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.)