British-Pakistani racer Enaam Ahmed finishes in the top 5 in Detroit Grand Prix
British-Pakistani racer Enaam Ahmed finished in the top 5 in Detroit Grand Prix!
This is the second time in a month that Enaam Ahmed has ended up in the top five places, after a fourth-place finish at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama.
He has now jumped to the eighth position in the championship standings.
The 23-year-old racer participated in the fourth round of the 2023 IndyNXT by Firestone in Detroit, the auto-manufacturing capital of the United States.
However, a suspension part failure in the qualifying round forced him to start from outside the top 10, but Ahmed made up fast and finished in the top-5.
Ahmed had to take evasive action to avoid crashing as in the opening lap, Louis Foster’s car was spun around by Hunter McElrea. And Ahmed took evasive action to avoid crashing into him, and also avoiding the walls.
Ahmed overtook two cars in one corner moving him up into the Top 5.
His aggressive overtaking has wowed American spectators who now call him the Pakistani Panther.
