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[quote=siangwei]tired but enjoyable race![/quote]
Yah! Yah! Yah! Of course you are ! when you get to blast everyone 3 seconds a lap faster in your endurance stint and practically left everyone 1km behind when you change driver. Anyway, congrats for the 3rd placing in the mixed team.
Great fun though. Report of Team USJ performance when I get back from Kuantan later this evening or kon Naza would like to do the honour.
[quote=luen][quote=TheFazz][quote=siangwei]tired but enjoyable race![/quote]
report please! 😉
[/quote]I heard team USJ finished 2nd, Congratz, team USJ Boleh[/quote]
Yup, 2nd in the mixed team and 3rd overall.
But the biggest winner of all is Team Huru-Hara lead by Azmee 2104 BUAYA and ST Ooi.
They are the overall champion by 2 laps and champion in the All Men’s team.
Not forgetting to mention that Azmee got 2nd placing in Men’s OPEN individual event and ST in 4th.Overall, My-Kart members did quite well though.
most of us arrive early in the morning 8.30am but need to wait until 4pm for the actual team endurance…
teams were given 5 laps each driver for free practice in the morning as a lot are newbies.
13 teams all together (mixed and all men catagory). We have a rolling start “leading by pace car” and my team was starting on pole with fierce Tarmizi on my right….
Upon the pace car in, and ensuring no 1 ahead of my kart… i accelerate hard to make myself a confortable gap from tarmizi… the kart seems to be well balance and i was able to push all the way from the rest of the pack until i come in for 2nd driver change…
My team remaining 3 drivers have not driven in this circuit as they are not regular in karts… so they have some spins and need to quickly adapt to the track and karts in the early few laps… and this is where my team starting to loosing places…
After all it was a good race at the end and v have to be satisfy for 3rd as it is from the Team Effort result…
At least was able to hand some answerable results to the company bosses today!
[quote=Nohad][quote=siangwei]tired but enjoyable race![/quote]
Yah! Yah! Yah! Of course you are ! when you get to blast everyone 3 seconds a lap faster in your endurance stint and practically left everyone 1km behind when you change driver. Anyway, congrats for the 3rd placing in the mixed team.
Great fun though. Report of Team USJ performance when I get back from Kuantan later this evening or kon Naza would like to do the honour.[/quote]
[quote=siangwei]
My team remaining 3 drivers have not driven in this circuit as they are not regular in karts… so they have some spins and need to quickly adapt to the track and karts in the early few laps… and this is where my team starting to loosing places…After all it was a good race at the end and v have to be satisfy for 3rd as it is from the Team Effort result…
At least was able to hand some answerable results to the company bosses today!
[/quote]Moral of the story, get the company to sponsor you all to more races!
Sunway Engineering would like to sponsor a bit of My-Kart year-end endurance bash ah?
Hey S T,
Still got strength to work today kah after practically racing the whole day with OPEN races & endurance.
That Kristo really let go people’s aeroplane* lah!
*In cantonese means – didn’t turn up!Sam (sevenforty),
Would be grateful if you could post the result here.btw, how’s the girl with the fractured collar bone? Any other major injury? She’s from which company?
Nohad..
Yeah, almost driving since 10am till 6pm, btw I am on sick leave lah today.. haha.. actually I was having flu since Saturday, so good chance to stay home to recuperate from flu + re-energize.[quote=Nohad]Sam (sevenforty),
Would be grateful if you could post the result here.btw, how’s the girl with the fractured collar bone? Any other major injury? She’s from which company?[/quote]
Yeah.. would be great if can also share the pictures of the event.
[quote=Nohad]btw, how’s the girl with the fractured collar bone? Any other major injury? She’s from which company?[/quote]
what happened to her? any learnings?
Was at the track by 7.50am to ensure that Team USJ comprising of Naza, Tarmizi, Anis & myself does get a place in the endurance race as the event was over registered.
Was wondering what I would do until our race time at 2.00pm but the participation of ST & Azmee in the Men’s OPEN race practically kept me busy checking the timing of their positions in the time trial and at the same time observing for good karts + the opponents.
Allocations of karts are basically by lucky draw style by picking up a pin-pong ball with the kart number written on it in a bag.
Azmee started off in pole position for Men’s final but ended up in 2nd place due to partly on kart performance with ST ending up on 4th not before being caught in traffic earlier. Their lap times are in the 1:12 – 1:13 region.An unfortunate incident occurred during the ladies time trial run for starting position. The unfortunate driver got flipped over after being hit at the back by another karter at the hairpin at the end of the parabolic. She was sent to the hospital in a state of shock with a suspected broken collar bone + laceration on her face + injury to the hip.
In the ladies final, Team USJ driver (Anis) who qualified in pole position started off well with another driver from Team OneTen in close pursuit (both girls are teenagers). They practically left the other girls behind with a fair margin. But unfortunately, the kart from Team OneTen left front wheel caught Anis right rear wheel at the parabolic turn and both spun off.
Both recovered and chased up and overtook the girls who overtook them earlier during their mishap. The girl from Team OneTen ended up as the winner and Anis ended up in 3rd placing at the end of the race but Anis picked up a thumb injury when the wheel of the Team OneTen grazed her thumb.We were quite concern of her injury but she insisted of racing with us. Our plan was to start off with Tarmizi at the start, myself the 2nd driver, Anis the 3rd driver & Naza the sweeper. The endurance was to run for 100 minutes with compulsory driver change at every minute 25 with allowance of 3 laps to come-in. Fuel-up is compulsory in any of the pit-stops.
We didn’t get the kart of our choice in the draw and we got kart no.10 for our race (the kart has poor low-end power coming out of left turns + our fuel tank could be filled-up to ½ tank only before fuel start to leak out). The best choices of karts are kart no.5 (Siang Wei got it), kart no.13 (Team OneTen), kart no.14 or at least kart no.7.
We got to start off in 2nd position according to our registration placing with Siang Wei (Team Sunway Engineering) in pole. By the end of lap 1, Siang Wei was already leading by nearly the full straight of the start/finish. We were in 2nd placing but losing sight of Siang Wei fast. Not long after, Azmee’s team (Team Huru-Hara –they registered their team at the last minute) overtook us. We were not concerned of Azmee’s team bcos they are under the Men’s category as we were in the Mixed category.
Checked the computer display and found we were losing to Siang Wei by about 3 seconds a lap. We were losing to Azmee’s team by about 0.5 seconds a lap. A quick decision was made and we decided to push Anis to the 2nd driver hoping in order to close-up the gap between ourselves and Team Sunway Engineering in the 2nd driver stint as she is a light and fast driver. We were not worried of the next teams behind us as they were quite far behind. The next direct team behind us (more than 10 seconds) is Team Slow & Curious (Melvin Goh’s team) and they are in the Men’s category.Tarmizi was called in when the pit-change flag was put up. Siang Wei continued for a couple more laps to capitalize his fast lap timing. When everything settled down, we found we were 1 lap behind Team Sunway but Anis managed to overtake the 2nd driver to unlap ourselves and managed to close-up to only ½ lap behind at the end of her stint. ST (Team Huru-Hara) was too far ahead to catch-up.
After fueled-up, I went out but had kart no.13 (Team OneTen) playing mickey mouse with me. I don’t know what is this team’s position or in which category they are in but obviously their kart no.13 is a more powerful kart as the kart practically pulled away or drew alongside me after left hairpin after the S-turns (remember me mentioning our kart has no low-end power coming out of left turns?). Moreover, our kart has no brakes and I couldn’t use the brakes to defend or attack and this problem propagates when coming up to slower drivers and hairpins. Another problem I faced is, the slower drivers don’t realized we are coming up to them fast as no blue flags were waved.
Using the experiences learned in My-Kart series, I managed to breakaway from him and leaving about 5-10 seconds gap at the end of my stint. In the process, I managed to overtake Team Sunway Engineering 3rd driver and Team USJ was leading in Mixed category. I was supposed to be the pace driver but ended up being the sprinter.Naza took over the last stint but I was surprised to find that kart no.13’s 4th driver is Anis nemesis. Our kart was barely 3 seconds apart when we came out of pits but coming to traffic, their kart with a lighter lady driver (the winner in ladies race) simply pulled away.
I went to check the computer display and was surprised that they were ahead of us. How did that happened?
Naza even had a Kimi & Liuzzi type accident at the hairpin after the S-turns and we were lucky that our kart came out unharmed.At the end of the race, Team Huru-Hara was 2 laps ahead of us.
Final result:
Men
1) Team Huru-Hara (Azmee & ST) 1st overall
2) Team Slow & Curious (Melvin Goh) 4th overallMixed
1) Team OneTen 2nd overall
2) Team USJ 3rd overall
3) Team Sunway Engineering (Siang Wei)It was a fun day overall with exception to the accident in ladies OPEN.
Lesson learnt from this event, need more flag marshals who know how to use blue flag (to warn slower drivers that faster drivers are lapping them) when holding such an event or in our future events with slow & inexperience drivers racing among experience drivers as I find it very dangerous as the inexperience drivers normally don’t watch their back when coming to a corner and they could suddenly cut into your line when you least expect.
First of all a very big thank you to Naza, Nohad, Azmee, ST, Siangwei, Melvin and Tarmizi for your participations and supports of the event. Nothing much I can say since Naza and Nohad pretty much have summed up the day’s affair at least as far as my-KART members are concerned. On the brighter side, all my-KART members won trophies, congratulations. Azmee and ST together with Fazimee and Anas (Anis’ brother) will defend their Men’s overall title next year. Naza, Nohad and Tarmizi together with Anis (Anas’ sister, naturally) came in second. Though ST was fourth in the Men’s individual, he clocked the 2nd fastest lap time. Sadly, there were two unfortunate incidents and one involved Team USJ member, Anis. In the Women’s final which clearly saw a two-horse race, 15 year-old Nur Fazaa (incidently was coached by Anis, kes lawan guru) lost control of her kart and hit Anis’s arm. Both spun out. With her arm and thumb in pain Anis continued only to finish 3rd, a gallant effort nonetheless and Nur Fazaa was the champion. Prior to the incident, both were clocking sub 1.13. After the race I took Anis to the ambulance, she was in tears. Then Nur Fazaa jumped off her kart together with her mom dashed to the ambulance and………..I just dont fancy Bollywood. Red eyes sob…sob. Team USJ’s strategy to race her as their 2nd driver was the right one indeed. But the earlier incident in Women’s qualifying was far more serious. Kong Mun Yee of Sanofi-Aventis was hit from behind and thrown of her kart. She landed hard on the track. She was promptly put into the ambulance and immediately rushed to SJMC. This forced the withdrawal of Team Sanofi-Aventis from the Women’s final and Team Endurance involving ten drivers. All the while after the incident, her team mates kept me posted. I very much wanted to visit her but had to oversee the event. My partner visited her and confirmed that she had fractured her collarbone, lacerations on her face, injuries to her hip but what was worst was the injury to her L4 which would keep her hospitalised for a month.
Lucky thing it happened close to where an ambulance was stationed. And luckily we had two ambulances. While one was sending Ms. Kong to SJMC, another one treated Anis. I think it is best to have two ambulances on standby for future events. Sadly, for me though I will be in Johor for the MR6 and APRC this weekend. Anyway, best of luck to my-KART members and who knows this could well be a fruitful month for Azmee, ST, Naza, Nohad, Siangwei, Melvin and Tarmizi.[quote=sevenforty] Anyway, best of luck to my-KART members and who knows this could well be a fruitful month for Azmee, ST, Naza, Nohad, Siangwei, Melvin and Tarmizi. [/quote]
Well guys… First of all, thanks to Bro Nohad that help keeping me & ST OOi alert of all time (the kart performance, leading laptime and alot more important info). Secondly, thanks to Bro Sam (7,40) for allowing me & my team to participate as the last team to register (great of u bro!)
Above all.. this is all about experience participating in “My-kart Mega Endurance” and was applied in this event that gave us a very good results.. and victory.. eventhough “Team HuruHara” was a last minutes assembled team but we managed to plan a strategies that works.
Not to forget, Thanks to all My-karters that were there to witness the great performance of My-kart members participated in this event. (Bro Naza, Bro Nohad, ST Ooi, Tarmizi, Siang Wei & Melvin)
Regards
Azmee[quote=siangwei]
AND THE THROPHY…[/quote]
Yah leh! Need to proof Proof of Attendance at MLF and winning a trophy is not a cerita cerita angin only.
And Naza need to show the minister why he overstayed his visa permit. 😀
[quote=Nohad][quote=siangwei]
AND THE THROPHY…[/quote]
Yah leh! Need to proof Proof of Attendance at MLF and winning a trophy is not a cerita cerita angin only.
And Naza need to show the minister why he overstayed his visa permit. :-D[/quote]
True, true, very true……need that trophy as proof that there was actually a charity race. The long sleeve T – shirt I showed is not good enough for the Minister…..sigh!
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