Velocity Karting

Pacific Association of Karting

Round #5 Race Preview

 

Saturday Night May the 20th Velocity Karting will be racing under the lights at Perris for Round 5 of the PAK racing series.  This is the series that Velocity spends much of their time and efforts in to win.   As a team we have 4 class wins this season at Perris and we plan to add to that number on the 20th.  As usual the entire team should be at this race, but in the F100 class there may be some new drivers joining us.  These drivers aren't officially Velocity team members, but they are guys who we have gotten to know and want to help them get racing.  If all goes well we could have 3 or 4 guys racing for their first time.

Ahkil Bhakta



In Comer A, we will have Hayden Huelsman and Ahkil Bhakta challenging for the win in this always tough division.  The fields haven't been huge this season in the A division but every driver in that class have stood atop the winners podium this year and have many wins under their belts.  Bhakta has been really fast this season, especially at Perris so he would have to be a favorite.  Huelsman hasn't quite been able to keep up with Bhakta at Perris, but his tuner has put together a plan to get him to the front this month.  The A class is always a roll of the dice when picking a winner as on any given race day local drivers may be the only guys to show up or you could have National Cahmpionship drivers in the field. 

Hayden Huelsman





Bela Richard

Comer B will have Bela Richard, coming off of his first win of the season and Brett Revetta.  Velocity Karting owns the Comer B class.  If it wasn't for a little bad luck, Velocity would have 2 more wins in this class already this season.  Both Revetta and Richard have the karts, motors and drivers to win this race and we expect a one, two finish.  It will not be too much longer until these drivers move up to the A division. 



Brett Revetta

Ahkil Bhakta will do double duty again at this event as he also competes in the Mini Swift division.  This is the fastest Jr 1 Division around.  Bhakta has taken to this class like he has been driving it for years.  His win this season came in this division and he is always with the lead pack when he races with this package.  It is a tough class to win, but we believe that Bhakta can do it.

In the F100 division Velocity plans to sweep the podium.  If Robert Melzer shows up, we will have our work cut out for us.  Velocity has not won a Perris race yet this season when he shows up, but Stephen Huelsman, Brian Smith and Bryan Parji have all put in the work necessary to win this class. 

Bryan Parji

In addition, we are hoping to see Phillip Ramirez back in his kart again at this event.  He hasn't been out since taking 2nd place two months ago at Perris.  As mentioned earlier we expect a few rookies to join us on this night and also we may see Joe Sino and Patrick Lonnee from F100karters.  No matter who shows up, it should be a great night of racing.  We look forward to seeing you at the track.