Unfortunately, tonight sees the end of a great racing team which has been around for many years! Starting out with only a select few, the team gained momentum as team numbers grew with excellent recruits. This earned the team great respect on and off the track. The team's dominance was felt in the AAL Flying Fox series with 5 or 6 quality racers in Div A. But from then on, it began to go downhill. As some members lacked interest while others just had too much going on in real life, the active numbers who raced online dropped. All was not lost though, with a few more good recruits coming in, which livened the team up. More recently, the team once again dropped into a low with two key racers leaving and joining another fabulous, albeit filthy, racing team.

Although this is somewhat like a test of whether you know your Australian LFS teams well, and hopefully you’ve guessed that this team I speak of is not Pacifica Racing. Instead, it is Premium Racing Team that faces a dark future. But all is not lost…

With the departure of SamC and JTM69 to FMR, PRT was severely lacking active numbers online. With only a handful of racers actively racing online, ReppohC and eMPee in the AAL, and Pete20 racing very late at night, PRT was lacking the presence that some of the other teams had on the servers.

After almost a month of discussion between Pacifica Racing and Premium Racing Team, it has been decided that these two teams will join together as one and race under the Pacifica Racing banner from tonight onwards. As a mark of respect for the fallen Premium Racing Team, all PRT members will sport a red PR as their tags for the first few weeks, as per a request within the PRT ranks =]

And so, Pacifica Racing is very proud and honoured to currently welcome eMPee, ReppohC, Astro, Pete20, and Standaam to our team. With the rest of PRT being inactive, Pacifica Racing is unable to notify them of this merger and hence will not add them to the members list yet. But for the 5 active PRT racers, the future looks very bright and blue =]

At the end of each year, Monday Night Racing hosts what's called a Driver Swap Challenge (DSC). This 2006 challenge was to be the second of its kind, with the first ever Driver Swap Challenge being held in 2005 with PR racer 'Charles' placing first overall in with his 'Team Explosion'.

This year, Pacifica Racing was able to field a team of its own. Charles once again put his hand up to participate with J_luo88 not far behind (being regular MNR racers.) SpoonSports was the designated third driver, but due to unforeseen circumstances, he was unable to race in 2 of the 4 roudns and hence, YnoT and Cetram both made appearances in MNR to fill the third drivers' spot.

Round 1 (XFG+XRG @ SO5R) - Team PR's XFG car, qualified by J_luo88, started on pole and had no problems finishing a comfortable first. Our XRG car, qualified by Charles, started in third place but with a good start off the line, Charles was able to jump to second and only dropped back to third breifly when the car came into the pits. Team PR was able to score maximum points for R1.

Round 2 (XFG+XRG @ AS2) - Qualfiying the XFG again, J_luo88 was able to make the first grid position with Charles int he XRG not far behind joining him on the front row. From the lights turning green to the checkered flag, the XRG had no problem passing our own XFG car off the line and then cruised to victory miles ahead of the next car. This next car happened to be our XFG car, but this second place did not come easily. J_luo88 had a small incident with r8 during his XFG stint which caused the XFG to drop down to 6th momentarily, before YnoT hoped into the car and made up numerous spots back to second. Luckily, Team PR was able to score maximum points for R2.

Round 3 (XFG+XRG @ FE2) - Once again, Team PR was able to qualify both cars on the front row. The XRG took off far into the distance, passing the XFG off the line. Our XFG car struggled a bit with some tussling with the DUR XFG, but still managed to finish second, behind our blazing XRG car. Once again, maximum points for R3

Round 4 (XFG+XRG @ BL1R) - Maximum points for Team PR was not to be in the final race of the series. New recuit OzB.r8 qualified just ahead of our XRG car, but was unable to hold off the vastly experienced Charles who overtook him on lap 3. Our XFG car also had a stroke of bad luck as while Charles was in the car, he lost a moments concentration and flipped the car on T1. This allowed OzB.Blowtus, in the XRG to pass and place second. Team PR managed a first and a third placing without the qualifying bonus point.

At the end of the series, Team PR was able to lift the trophy (figuratively) with a comfortable lead over the second placing team. Well done to everyone that raced, Go PR!!! =]

Pacifica Racing entered this never before seen event on Australian soil with high hopes. Team PR was able to get two cars onto the 12hour grid with a FZR team, which would be driven by Cetram, Charles, J_luo88 and Y-noT, and also a FXR team, which would be driven by CLP, Pixelboy, Somebloke and Sp33dracer. The FZR car would start 3rd on the grid while the FXR car would start in 7th.

As the clock strikes 10am on a beautiful Sunday morning, Pixelboy (acting as the pacecar) leads the field around a full lap of the Aston North circuit, which will play host to 12 gruelling hours of intense racing between 9 teams.

Offical Results here!

Live Discussion here!!