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[quote=yazidm]As what he has told me, he has learned a lot, such as you need to do late braking and to step on the accelerator very much earlier and also to understand the kart behaviour on such condition which is very important. you can easily confuse yourselves with understeer and oversteer. That was the argument he had with his mechanic in the world finals. It turn out to be he was wrong and the mechanic was right. Hence they couldn’t find the perfect set-up for the heats with the standard chassis. Nevertheless he was the fastest among the malaysian juniors in one of the warm-up outing. He thought he can better that by changing the set-up. His best time was 59.35 (if I m not mistaken) which is 2 or 3/10th slower than Calvin Wong. But in the world finals 3/10th is a huge gap as you easily have 16 other karters in between.
Experience and exposure do play an important role to get the perfect set-up. I believe he has learned and hope he will improve from there.
Ikhwan will be leaving for Macau on Tuesday 11/12/2007 and register on 12/12/2007 and hopefully he got to do a day practice.
The event starts from Thursday with scruitineering and non qualifying practices. Log-in to http://www.asiankarting.com/home.aspx for details.
Hope to see you there timmsm…[/quote]
You are right, i saw the result table from practising to the final race.. their timing is jsut 10/20 th of s sec of each other. and the race is sooo tight.
if you are 1 sec diff.. then u can see yourself at the end of the grid .
real scaryhi guys..
the race was indeed very intense…& very2 close…
especially in the seniors finals where the winner overtook the race leader right at the last corner on the last lap…& same goes to our boy Calvin Wong…he was keeping up a very good pace behind in the leading pack & in the last few laps he was up to 7th…unfortunately at the last lap somehow (i missed it) he lost 2 placings & finished 9th…everyone was really fighting all the way & the spectators was entertained the whole time…I was supposed to take some pics with my new D300 but didn’t get a track access pass so i was only restricted to very few locations for a good shot ;( but nevertheless managed to exercise the 6fps of my D300…which performed very well (money well spent to me…hehehe 😉 )
Yazid & mikko…nice to meet u guys & the team in Al-Ain…sorry can’t be much of a good host since i was tied up with work after the last day of the race, else would be very much obliged to take you to Abu Dhabi…maybe next year then…(any news on next years race location?? dubai??)
oh & yes…i was too excited to be in Al-Ain that i also forgotten about the team shirt larrrrrr…huhuhu ;(
regards to all,
razmyn @ abudhabi
[quote=razmyn]
I was supposed to take some pics with my new D300 but didn’t get a track access pass ……..
…..exercise the 6fps of my D300….
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Hallooo Capt, you dont need any pass here for the recent my-kart Mega Finals. Somemore you can get shoot many exciting photos posed by many exciting man and lady drivers and……ahem! models too. Your D300 will have plenty of excercise at 6fps…..gerenti!Nice to meet you too. Infact it is nice to meet another fellow Malaysian there.
Rumour was saying that it might be held at Dubai. I think it is probably because of the funding and that all the karts will be sold off before the meet just like the karts for the 2007 world final. They were all taken before the event even started.
We have to wait for the announcement. Anyway captain we drove to Dubai Via Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi the city you lived in is indeed a nice city. They were hosting the F1 Powerboat. Saw the sheikh palace. It’s really huge & beautiful. Didn’t see the Silver Audi A8 car though…
[quote=timmsm]
If I’m not mistaken (need to check the schedule), I’ll be in Macau on Monday afternoon (10th) then Hong Kong (maybe Beijing too) and back to Macau on 12th.[/quote]Lobster…you told me you were going off on an important business trip to China….what’s this about then?? 😕
[quote=saa73][quote=timmsm]
If I’m not mistaken (need to check the schedule), I’ll be in Macau on Monday afternoon (10th) then Hong Kong (maybe Beijing too) and back to Macau on 12th.[/quote]Lobster…you told me you were going off on an important business trip to China….what’s this about then?? 😕 [/quote]
errrrrrrrrrrr, just got back this morning after being stuck in Macau for 12 hours longe than expected… seriously busy Bro and only managed to squeeze in 15 minutes at the Venetian Hotel and 20 minutes at Sands!!
For those who are following the series, the RMC 3rd round will be held in Elite Circuit instead of Sepang next May. The 4th Round will be in Shah Alam and the Final will be back in Elite. Both the track will be homolagated soon.
The 1st Round ws held in early march. Saw Naza, Des-Khoo there. In the 1st round Imran Zaharias came 1st, Ede 2nd, Mikko 3rd, Ikhwan 4th and James Lee 5th. Ikhwan was driving a old SH Toledo which was cracked twice. He told me that it was not easy driving a cracked chassis but nothing much can be done as the new chassis did not arrive and the spare chassis was bent.
In Kelantan he got to drive his new SH Toxic II chassis and Mikko was driving a new Intrepid Cruiser. It was a world of difference for both of them. Ikhwan was faced with engine problem a day before the qualifying. In fact both his engine(main & spare) had the same problem. In practices Ikhwan was very competitive and was faster than Mikko and Ooi Fei Hong (winner) during a session. Mikko had his own problem as well.
With only couple of hours before the qualifying, the mechanic did what ever necessary to allow Ikhwan to go out the next day for qualifying. It was a bad qualifying as Ikhwan was 1+ sec off his practice time. Power valve was not working. He qualified 11th out of 18 drivers. Mikko qualified 8th behind Ede and Dass who was 7th and 5th resepectively.
The mechanic tried to solve the power valve issue before Heat 1. Again in Heat 1 the problem persisted and he finished 11th while Mikko, Ede & Dass finished 4th, 9th and 8th respectively. Again Ikhwan was off pace.
As for Heat 2, Ikhwan gambled by insisting the mechanic to use the original power valve from the 1st engine. Went out and it worked! This time he got the pace and raced his way up from 11th to 4th. He clocked the 2nd fastest time 50.204 sec which was behind OOi Fei Hong by 0.006 sec. Mikko finished 4th with a best lap of 50.453. Ede DNS the heat 2 as he was sick. Dass finished 7th while Imran had problem and finished 10th.
In the pre-final, Ikhwan started from 6th and raced his way up to 3rd. Ikhwan best time was 1/10th slower than Ooi Fei Hong. Mikko and Imran had an incident with the same kart # 17 whom was slowing them down.In both incidents Ikhwan was behind them but managed to avoid the collision. Basically Mikko & Imran collided at the same corner but in different lap and # kart17 survived while both Imran and Mikko were off the track but got back to continue racing. EDE was penalised (10 sec) for a jump start and finished behind Dass (7th) in 8th position. Imran finished 9th.
For the final race. It was expected by many that Ikhwan will be challenging for the 1st position from Ooi Fei Hong basing on his performance in Heat 2 & the Pre-Final. In the final he started from the 3rd grid overtook James Lee who stared from 2nd grid at the 1st corner after the start. Ikhwan followed Ooi Fei Hong closely in the 1st lap with James Lee trailing about half sec behind them. Ikhwan saw an opportunity to take Ooi Fei Hong at the 3rd corner of the 2nd lap, He passed Ooi Fer Hong but unfortunately was touched by Fei Hong at the left rear which sent Ikhwan off the track. For the spectator it was an anti climax as Ikhwan’s challenge lasted only for a lap. For Ikhwan, it was indeed a frustrating moment as he was so confidence of taking the 1st place as he had the pace to challenge Fei Hong the winner of the Kelantan Kart Prix. Ikhwan after off the track drove slowly and waited for Fei Hong to lapped him. After Fei Hong lapped him, he then followed Fei Hong closely but not to jeopardies Fei Hong 1st place until finish. Probably to prove a point that he had the pace to do it. Fei Hong won with 5 sec margin.
EDE had a bad luck when he DNF 5 laps before the chacqured flag after his battery flew off the kart. Fei Hong won the Kelatan Kart Prix with Fahmy Elyas 2nd, James Lee 3rd, Rohairijaz 4th and Mikko 5th. Dass finished 7th.
Fei Hong also won the DD2 category with Mikko 2nd, John King 3rd. In DD2 John King already qualified for the world finals as Fariz Fawzi, the winner of the 1st round DD2 did not participate and Ray Kong was also missing in the 2nd round.
For the result and lap charts http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=290923
well done to all drivers. happy to see ikhwan, ede and dass showing good pace. well done to mikko – our sifu here.
Unlucky for Ede who was not in the best of health and that 10 sec penalty but very strong races for Dass, Ikhwan and Mikko. Well done guys and Kota Bahru has passed , now for rd 3 at Elite. We will be there to cheer you guys in large numbers I am sure.
[quote=naza]Unlucky for Ede who was not in the best of health and that 10 sec penalty but very strong races for Dass, Ikhwan and Mikko. Well done guys and Kota Bahru has passed , now for rd 3 at Elite. We will be there to cheer you guys in large numbers I am sure.[/quote]
I will be there for sure to give cheers. And snap some photos of the race too~ Congrats to all the winners!
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