After testing our oils for trucks, for endurance and motocross motorcycles, in 2020 a phone call gets us in touch with Umberto Scandola, famous rally driver from Verona. Umberto races under the Hyundai Rally Team Italia colors, a team connected with Hyundai Motorsport. With him we began a new partnership that brought our lubricants in the WRC3 races.
Do you think this is over? Nah. In addition to the offroad palmares, we wanted to test our lubricants on track.
Our collaboration with Maserati Trofeo (single-brand championship for gentlemen drivers commissioned directly by the OEM between 2003 and 2006) is embedded in the Pakelo Lubricants’ story. We were official technical partners of the championship for three years and in addition to the lubricants supply for the cars involved, we made something more: we competed with our own Pakelo car.
Never change a winning oil, that’s the way they say it, right? So, Amato Ferrari, Ferrari AF Corse’s GT Team Principal, after knowing us at Maserati Trofeo started a collaboration that we’ve carried on ever since 2003. Our transmission oils run inside his Ferraris that compete in championships as ELMS, GT Open, GT Endurance. Victories? P1 in WEC 24h of Le Mans in 2012 and 2014 with a Ferrari 458 driven by Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander, just to say.
But these are not the only podiums we gained in Le Mans: Risi Competizione, American team based in Houston Texas that has been collaborating with us since 2018, gained a P2 that very same year. They looked for a transmission oil with great performances for their Ferrari, and meeting Pakelo was a marriage in heaven.
Oils for motorcycles, for cars, for endurance competitions and for on-track races… what’s missing in our palmares? Open wheels, obviously.
So let’s talk about Team Trident, our partner since 2016. With them and other teams in Formula 1 and Formula E we perfectioned our Racing oil for transmissions, specifically made for competition-use: the Pakelo Racing Transmission DLS A. A crown jewel among our lubricant set.