Motul stages successful trackday
MOTUL, the World’s standard when it comes to engine protection and maximizing its power recently held the second staging of the 300V Superfast Trackday. Held at the Clark International Speedway, the by invitation only trackday was organized by Carlos Gono of Motul PH-Autoplus.
This year’s attendees broke last year’s record of supercar participants and JDM exotics, which included Ferraris, Lamborghini’s, Mercedes Benz’s, Aston Martin’s, Lotus two seaters,wickedly fast Porsches, insanely fast two McLaren 570S GT and the famous 1000 plus BHP Ford GT of Gono.
“Seeing this year’s overwhelming turn out is an inspiration for us to continue this event next year,” said Gono. This year’s participants had 90 supercars and 140 drool-worthy JDM machines which included a slew of Nissan GTR’s headed by the 2018 680 whp Nismo GTR of Kirk Baltazar which clocked in an impressive 10.60 seconds around the Speedway.
There were also a good number of Subaru WRX STI’s, Honda NSX’s, Type R’s, S2000’s and Toyota 86’s and Subaru BRZ’s in full race setup. “The mood of the event was festive, where all classes of car enthusiasts got together with a common passion, talking & sharing their interest and experience to push their cars to the limit safely at the race track.
FAST FOURS
This year’s program consisted of a supercar trackday, and a ¼ miles Drag for supercars and a Touge style battle for the Subaru WRX Sti Club and VOAC Club members.
The fastest cars during the 300V Motul Superfast were the Nismo GTR of Baltazar; the 700-whp Nissan GTR of Aga Tomawis (10.70 secs); 2018 Porsche GT2 RS of Jim Baltazar with a time of 10.90 secs; the 2019 McLaren 570S GT4 with 467hp on tap with a time of 11.12 secs driven by Luis Gono and the 675hp 2019 McLaren 675LT of architect and church pastor Jun Go with a time of 11.20 secs.
“This event was conceptualized for Motul clients, fans and dealers for them to experience first hand how well Motul high performance products cope with actual race conditions where engine revs and power output are always at its peak.
Motul PH offered free breakfast for the participants while Angels Burger took care of the free lunch for all.
The 300V Motul Superfast was sponsored by Motul, Autoplus and Clean Fuel.