Moola miles ahead in UAE championship

Dubai: With two wins at Dubai Autodrome in the first four races of the 2011/2012 Total UAE Touring Car Championship, Aslam Moola leads the championship standings and as a result has become the man to beat in the highly competitive Class 2 in the series.

A Dubai-based South African, Moola is part of the impressive Emirates Racing Team, and acknowledges, "It's been a great start to the season for me. I have felt more composed and significantly calmer at the wheel this year. I started both race weekends at the back of the grid and that made it really exciting."

Moola started racing karts in South Africa during the nineties and did a season of Rotax karting when he first arrived in Dubai back in 2001. When the UAE Touring Car Championship was launched it was the ticket he needed to get back behind the wheel.

"I chose UAE Touring Cars because it is really competitive and at the same time very sociable, and this has tremendous appeal to me," said Moola, who is New Business Development Manager for the Middle East for Shell Chemicals.

"It is encouraging to be part of a healthy field of competitors and to have already enjoyed really close racing," Moola said.