Back From Racing In Malaysia!
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Whee!
that was awesome. 4 days of intense wheel to wheel racing, 140km/h battles, damaged bodywork scraping all over the place, the chaos, the noise, the passion! what an experience!
Day 1: Wednesday
8pm: left singapore.
drove up to kota bahru overnight, 10 hours straight without sleep.
Day 2: Thursday
6am: reached kota bahru.
7am: reached the racing circuit.
8am: preparations all done, testing started.
10.30am: registration done
1pm: testing went fine
2pm: scrutineered.
3.30pm: water leak detected around the radiator piping area, troubleshooting begains
3.45pm: testing on track, spewing water all over the track
4pm: problem fixed, but engine running hot.
4.20pm: engine temp goes up to 110 degrees C after only 2 laps on track.
4.45pm: engine still running hot.
5.15pm: engine removed. replacement engine installed.
5.20pm: replacement engine refuses to start.
6.30pm problem still not solved. by now, short on sleep, tired and very cranky, me and my coach desperately tries to fix the problem, but fails to remedy it. Team boss calls from singapore and demands we work on the problem overnight, argument ensures. finally decided that the team should return to hotel for rest, food and a good shower. -
Day 3: Friday
7am: left hotel
8am: arrived at circuit
9am: engine started. problem seems solved.
9.15am: rescrutineered due to change of engine.
10.10am: Official free practice starts
2.30pm: driver's briefing
3.35pm: time trial 1. qualified 12 out of 24, timing 51.08s
5.05pm: time trial 2. qualified 10 out of 21 timing 50.64s.
overall starting position for Saturday heats 1: 13 out of 27
Day 4: Saturday
8am: reach circuit.
9.30am: official warm up and systems check
11.15am: heats 1. non start due to fouled spark plug
2.50pm: heats 2. started 23. fought up to 15
starting position for Sunday Pre-Finals: aggregate for heats 1 & 2: (23+15)/2 = 19 -
Day 5: Sunday
8am: reached the circuit. started testing on threadbare tyres, managed to stay on circuit.
11.20am: Pre-finals. started 19, finished 18
3pm: waiting for the arrival of the Tengku, guest of honour
4pm: welcome ceremony
5.15pm: Finals. started 18, finished 16.
And that concludes my 1st official overseas race.
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What race and which circuit?
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this circuit up at kota bahru. named after their tengku. the race was also held in commeration of the tengku's birthday i think. not sure of the namesOriginally posted by brisance:What race and which circuit? -
here r some pics:
early morning, thurs, getting ready to test:
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getting ready for testing:
after this pic was taken, i went out to test. without realising that my left rear was loose. luckily it stayed on and i avoided having a really major accident even b4 the race got underway proper. -
Friday morning, after freepractice 1. the calm b4 the storm:
my machine. no. 63
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final prep before the time trials.
the results of our testing and setup work on thursday: a very decent result for the team: qualifying in 6th and 10ths spot out of 27 class entrants
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Cool
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general layout of the circuit:
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no pictures from saturday.
sunday pre final pics:
powering past some of the top racers within asia at the start. Ray Kong of KL and Bernd Baunack of Germany, both very experienced and very good drivers. Ray would later on re-pass me.
finishing the race, returning to parc farme for the post race weight inspection and impounding of tyres.
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The race was attended by his royal highness sultan of kelantan.
receiving a token of appreciation from the queen.
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Finals:
once again shooting past 3 or 4 guys down the outside, braking late and slamming the door shut on the inside line. this time the guys who lost a place to me included no. 18, M Muzzamil, another top malaysian racer, who had a string of misfortune. earlier on, if u noticed, he qualified ahead of me.
A shot of me taking turn one ahead of bernd baunack(88.) and M Muzzamil(18.)
later on around laps 10 to 13, Muzzamil and I had a couple of terrific battles, coming down the main straight alonside at 140km/h, trying to outbrake each other into turn 1. for 2 laps he had to give in. the 3rd time, i waved him thru.
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interesting
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Nice pics!
Looks like you had a great time there. -
yes indeed!Originally posted by AdAptAliS:Nice pics!
Looks like you had a great time there.
and i learnt a great deal from my experience! -
it's mean travelling in this tiny machine at 140
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yeah but hey! its fun!Originally posted by Theatre Of Dreams:it's mean travelling in this tiny machine at 140 -
one thing though. this race set me back by about $4000
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$4K....goodness...wats the sponsor for?
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$4K....goodness...wats the sponsor for?
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in spore got such race???
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equipment.Originally posted by Thailand_Hero:$4K....goodness...wats the sponsor for?
this is not so bad.
e enduro race in sentosa back in 2002 set my team back by $11k.
Zouk sponsered 5k of it -
got but smaller scale.Originally posted by sgboy2004:in spore got such race???
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