The Arsham Siblings Help Each Other Achieve Their Goals

Niki Arsham came into the weekend with one goal, and one goal only, set a new personal best time. In the 2025 season she was able to set her personal best lap, and now, she wanted to go faster. On Saturday, she shook out the car during warm-up in anticipation of qualifying in a couple hours. During qualifying, Niki was able to find a nice gap and didn’t find herself in the mess of cars. Arsham set a qualifying time of 2:07.390, which was 2 seconds slower than her personal best time. After being disappointed in her performance, knowing that there was more in the car – and herself – she turned to the one person guaranteed to help her go faster. Niki went to her competitor, and older brother, Reza Arsham to receive some coaching and hopefully turn a faster time.

Since Reza Arsham was competing in the Sportsman class this season, instead of Touring Car, that meant they were officially competing against each other. Reza had finished first in Sportsman at Buttonwillow a few weeks prior, so Niki knew he’d be her answer to going faster. The two siblings worked together all of Saturday afternoon comparing data, and in-car videos to see where she was losing time. Since they were both driving a K24 swapped Honda Civic, it was very easy to see where Niki was losing time. After a day of data, videos, and the countless times Reza told her to “just floor it”, Niki was feeling ready for the race on Sunday. Arsham opted to skip warm-up on Sunday morning, which meant that she only had one chance to apply all the lesson’s she got from Reza the day prior. During the race, Niki was consistently setting times faster than her previous best. Niki ended the race with her best lap being a 2:01.582, which was 6 seconds faster than Saturday qualifying and 4 seconds faster than her best lap last season. During that same race, Reza ended up setting the Sportsman lap record. Who knows, maybe coaching his little sister finally made him take his own advice. Safe to say, both Arsham siblings walked away from the weekend feeling accomplished.