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Alfa Romeo
CTS-V Wagon Race car
BAM! How’s about this for an idea then? A Cadillac CTS-V Wagon racer; the brain child of Lap 57′s Emirati race driver Omran Al Owais, and we want to see it take to the track.
Sadly, this is only a Photoshop, but we hope this will inspire some very clever people to help make it a reality. Currently, the car is a standard road machine. Both Omran and his brother Mohammed own them, having imported them from the US to satisfy their long-established desire for large-booted performance machinery. This is something of an anathema in the Middle East, where SUVs rule the roost, but the site of one of these carving up the race track could just bring about a few conversions to the Way of the Wagon.
In Omran’s own words: “A typical Emirati thinks a wagon is as cool as a chauffeur driving an old smelly Camry Wagon with trunk full of fish baskets. The Golf GTI is a familiar sight on Dubai Autodrome track days, and the sight of a Clio shaking it at the Yas Marina driving school is quite acceptable, but when you mention the word Wagon, people just stare at each other as if I am cuckoo.
“We are hoping this fetish might catch on with other Emiratis and see them ditching their X6Ms and G55s, so that we start seeing serious girls on the road such as the RS6/E63 or the new exciting M5 Wagon. The streets of Jumeirah at night will never be the same.”
The Al Owais brothers’ current plan is to drive their respective estates from Dubai to the Nurburgring for the mother of all road-trips, and after that convert one into the fire-breathing speed machine you see conceived above. But it’s no small task, and Omran hopes this image will persuade those with influence and expertise to get in touch with advice on how to bring the vision to life, and race it in the UAE GT Championship. Hennessey Performance, D3 and anyone else with the skills – we’re calling you out! Drop us a line, let’s make it happen.
Article Source: Crank&Piston
Honda EG Race car
About the EG
All the race car civic EG’s we built started life as a rusty old unwanted cars by there previous owners. We gave them all a new life by stripping it to bare metal and replacing all the rusty bits, straightening the shell and adding a 14 point welded roll cage for safety and rigidity, we then replaced the old D-Series engines with a modern K-Series engine and had played with the suspension. Through out the 3 seasons we raced these cars, we evolved them to keep up with the competition. #37 and #38 were the extreme version of the cars which both raced in 2009-2019 season. The chassis was developed and understood a lot more and suspension geometry sorted out, they were both running extremely well built engines by lap57. The cars can be identified by their wider arches giving them more traction and stability on the corners.
Contact us if you are interested in building such a project for the track or the road
Achievement
Car # 57 – UAETCC class winner and overall championship winner 2008-2009 driven by Mohammed AlOwais
Car # 37 – UAETCC class winner 2009-2010 driven by Umair Khan
Car # 38- UAETCC runner up 2009-2010 driven by Omran Alowais
FD2R
About
The car was imported from Japan and was an original FD2R. The build was simple. Make it as light as possible. Doors,fenders,hood and trunk were scraped and exchanged with lighter weight material, the glass was replaced with lexan and the shell got a 12 point safety cell, The engine was built and restricted to a power cap for the class.The car proved to be faster by 1sec although it is 200kg heavier than the EG race car.
Achievements
UAETCC Class 2 winner 2010-2011 driven by Umair Khan
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Gearbox Rebuild Time Lapes
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Alfa Romeo
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CTS-V Wagon Race car
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Honda EG Race car
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FD2R
Dealership
K-Tuned
K-Tuned is a Canadian company that specializes in Honda K-Series engine. They design and manufacture there products at a very high standards. They also have swap kits which are for older generation honda with a modern k-seriens engine.
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Work Wheels
Work wheels started in 1977 by Mr.Takeshi Tanaka who wanted to build custom wheels.Today Work wheels is the leading brand in Japan to manufacture custom offset and width wheels. Designs include sporty and elegant for high end cars.
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Tein
Since 1985 TEIN has been developing performance suspension products. The high technology used in winning the World Rally Championship and Super N1 Endurance Race has now been applied to the streets.When you are looking for the best in comfort, style, handling, and true racing performance, TEIN has all the high quality products for your driving pleasure!
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Skunk2
Since 1994, Skunk2’s goal has been to simply build the highest quality, best performing aftermarket parts for today’s sport compact vehicles. Designed by passionate enthusiasts and drawing on more than 15 years of experience, we’re able to create the products that cater to your needs.
All Skunk2 products are carefully planned and designed in-house using the latest computer simulation and modeling techniques, followed by careful testing in controlled laboratory environments using state-of-the-art equipment. Each product is then subjected to rigorous dyno, street, and race track testing to ensure proper performance in the most extreme conditions. For these reasons, top street cars and race cars worldwide rely on Skunk2 products.
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Hondata
Hondata modifies standard Honda engine computers (ECUs), adding features and expanding the capabilities of the ECU (e.g. for forced induction). These modifications are available either as a reflash, or a fully tunable system. Reflashes involve the ECU being sent to Hondata; programmable system require the ECU to be modified for pre 2006 vehicles or an external programming interface for 2006 and later vehicles.
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Toda Racing
Established in 1970 and based in Okayama, Japan, TODA Racing Co. Ltd. began as a maintenance company for racing engines and chassis. Since TODA’s inception, company activities and capabilities have expanded to include manufacturing and development of racing engines and parts for various forms of professional motorsports, ranging from Formula 3 to Super GT. The experience gained in the realm of professional motorsports is directly applied to the development of all TODA Racing products.
With 40 years of motorsports experience, TODA Racing has become one of Japan’s premiere motorsports engineering and manufacturing companies. TODA engineers combine the latest technologies in product design, testing, and manufacturing, along with high grade materials to produce the finest quality race proven products available. All TODA products are manufactured in-house in Japan to ensure the highest level of quality control.
Contact us for more information about Toda product or visit there website. Toda Racing
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K-Tuned
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Work Wheels
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Tein
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Skunk2
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Hondata
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Toda Racing
Services
Performance Shop
Choosing the right supplier for your performance car is a very important part of tuning. Thats why we deal with the best. We know the importance of reliability, durability and quality for our customers, so we work closely with our suppliers to give the best price and performance to our valued customers.
Vehicle Maintance
At LAP57, it is our goal to provide the most professional and competent automotive services available anywhere. We proudly provide our services with the highest level of personal attention, courtesy and respect to the customer. We believe performing regular scheduled oil changes to be an important step in maintaining the performance and health of your vehicle. We also provide a comprehensive check of each vehicle with every oil change.
Restoration
Attention to details is the most important thing when we rebuild a classic car. Over the past few years we have worked closely with our customers to rebuild their classic car. It can be anything from its’ engine to a full restoration.
Motorsport
Circuit racing have just started in the Middle East couple of years ago and we know the value of it. Thats why we have a dedicated team that build, setup and support racing enthusiasts. Dubai Autodrome is one is the very first venues in the Emirates to host a variety of series from UAETCC, Radical Cup to Dubai 24hrs endurance race. We can help you and your team with race car inspections, logistics and track support.
About us
The company started in 2005 selling race wear and high performance parts soon after that the workshop construction started and in 2006 the workshop doors opened to customers. LAP57 main focus for the first few years was to get into Motorsport and get recognized as one of the top teams in the UAE. That was achieved in 2008 when the team won its first championship and continued to win for the next 3 consecutive years. Today LAP57 grew up to a 17,000sq ft facility and welcomes it customers from all of the Gulf region.
A lot of people ask why we choose the name LAP57, well the first formula one in the Gulf, which was back in 2004, was held in Bahrain and it was 57 laps so the name was derived from that. LAP57.
Drivers
Mohammed Alowais
- UAE Radical Series 2006-2007
- BMW Formula Bahrain
- UAETCC 2008-2009
- Chevrolet Supercars series 2009-2010
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2010
- Chevrolet Supercar series 2010-2011
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2011
- UAETCC 2011-2012
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2012
Nawaf Al-Ansari
- BMW Formula Bahrain
- UAETCC 2008-2009
- HSBC Academy
Omran Al-Owais
- UAE Radical series 2006-2007
- UAE Radical series 2007-2008
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2008
- UAETCC 2008-2009
- UAETCC 2009-2010
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2010
Umair Khan
- UAETCC 2008-2009
- UAETCC 2009-2010
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2010
- UAETCC 2010-2011
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2011
- UAETCC 2011-2012
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2012
Saeed Al-Mehairi
- UAETCC 2008-2009
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2010
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2011
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2012
Rupesh
- UAETCC 2009-2010
- UAETCC 2010-2011
- UAETCC 2011-2012
- Dubai 24hrs Endurance 2012
The Team
Mohammed Alowais // Owner // Race Driver
Blessed to be able to start a workshop and have it still running till today. Don’t think it would be possible with out the great people who work there and for the customers who helped us along this journey. Thank you all.
Nawaf Alansari // Partner // Race Driver
A person with very few words but with a great big heart and passion for Motorsport. Started with alowais LAP57 General Trading LLC back in 2005 to sell high performance parts.
Rizvi Mansour // Managing Director
He joined LAP57 in 2007 and he brought with him more than 25 years of experience in automobile. With his guidance LAP57 team won numerous championships and is achieving world recognition as a Honda specilist.
Umair Khan // Marketing Manager // Race Driver
His passion for racing made him a big part of LAP57 with helping the company get known around the world and also winning 3 consecutive championships for the team.
Bandara // Supervisor
First mechanic that worked for lap57, young Bandara early on showed his love for the sport and ability to organize and become a team leader. His great communication skills and taking responsibility made him a vital team member for LAP57.
Adnan // Race Manager
His first season as a team manager 2011-2012 became a dream when Umair won UAETCC class 4 championship, his effort also goes to 2 Dubai 24hrs hours and payed off well in 2012.
Salim // Race Strategist
Dubai 24hrs Endurance is his speacilty giving the team vital info on pitstops, fuel and tire change timing.
Bannai // Race Manager
First team manager and numerous titiles won under his guidance, along with that he managed lap57 performance shop since it started until 2011 when left the company to pursuit other things in life.
Logo history
When we first started the lap57 we were selling race wear so we designed our logo to carry a helmet.
Soon after that as progress of race wear selling slowed down and we were more into performance parts we got rid of the helmet and just had the name.
As we got into racing in 2008 we noticed that the logo is not serving it purpose so we contacted our marketing company to come up with an idea to make a new logo that is simple and sharp.
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Drivers
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The Team
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Logo history
