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[quote=luen]how much $$$ that we are talking about roughly?[/quote]
U need a team? RM5k per driver. RS Auto sponsored by NASA oil. Owner of the car need another 2 experience drivers.
Why dont you have a talk with Akina Teo? He’s quite an experience driver but expects someone to offer him a seat for free.
Confirmed my participation in Class C. Honda EK. Third year in MME. Need strong support and sponsors from motorsport fans especially my-karters. Tips and suggestion for the coming endurance race (12 Hour race in Sepang) are welcomed. Thanks.
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Sepang’s Merdeka Millennium Endurance race (MME) will be held in a month’s time and for the first time in four years, Malaysia’s top lady driver Phillipa Yoong will not feature in 12-hour race.
Team X-1R RedBull Racing, again the first team to announce the drivers’ line-up, however, is not unduly worried with the absence of their anchor driver.
With Phillipa – the younger sister of Malaysia ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Yoong – taking time off due to her pregnancy, Malaysia’s most distinguished all-women racing team has roped in the services of top class Japanese driver Hiroko Nakamura to join her compatriot Kazumi Mikami and actress Deanna Yusoff in their 2006 campaign.
“Phillipa can’t compete this year because she got married earlier this year and she is expecting soon. However, Philippa will continue to play a coaching role for Deanna,” says Team X-1R RedBull manager Najmi Razak.
Entering its seventh year, the 2006 Merdeka Millennium Endurance race will be held in from 25th to 27th August with an expected participation of more than 300 drivers and 1,000 team crew; coming as far as Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Unlike the past three years, the 2006 race would be held on August 27 with the race to be flagged off at 12.07am to mark its seventh edition. Qualifying will be run on Friday (August 25) and only the best 77 cars would make the starting grid according to their respective classes.
A regular in the event, Najmi’s all-women team made their debut in 2003 under their visionary Women In Motorsports programme with Phillipa and Deanna partnering TV host and youth ambassador Maznah Zulkifli under the banners of Projet Racing Team where they finished 37th overall.
Spurred by their impressive sixth placing in Class B for cars between 1601cc and 1900cc last year, the team is aiming to finally climb the podium for the first time since their participation in the 12-hour endurance race since 2003.
“Deanna been improving her lap time as she had been practicing regularly at SIC Sunday Open track days for the past one year. She also had some advance driving training courses in Silverstone track in the UK last November.”
“Deanna is a far better, better driver now and she is the captain of the team. As for Kazumi and Hiroko, I have no worries at all. They are regular racers and they had wide experience in competitive racing in Japan,” Najmi added.
A runner-up for Miss Japan 2004 beauty pageant and a former race Queen, Hiroko has the driving skills and guts to match her gorgeous looks. She had been competing in Japan’s Toyota Vitz Championship for the past three years while Kazumi plies her expertise his the Porshe Carrera Cup Japan.
With the departure of Maznah in 2004, Philippa and Deanna partnered rookie drivers in two different cars in the following year; but both cars failed to finish the race due to mechanical problems. They recruited Kazumi last year for a single entry in a Satria GTI Class B machine that finished sixth in the category.
“This year, the team will again be racing in the Class B; but in a brand new Satria GTi R3, which is prepared by Proton Motorsport & Loon Power and with an entirely new suspension system provided by Kayaba Malaysia,” said Najimi, adding that the new machine had a lot of promise.
He said Deanna’s time had been improving consistently and that she had broke the 2 minutes 43 seconds barrier in the new car. “And, that is about one second faster than our team’s best qualifying time at last year’s MME,” he added.
Despite their increased strength and capabilities, Najmi, however, still believes that his charges would remain as underdogs in their battle against the men in view of the anticipated increased standard in competition.
“MME is entering its seventh year this season; and every year, it gets tougher and tougher especially with more and more international drivers coming into play. But, we will be ready for the challenge,” he said.
“One thing for certain, our car will be having excellent engine protection by X-1R. Body-wise, Red Bull energy drink will be providing us the sustaining power for us to sweat it out to finish this grueling 12-hour race.
“And with some luck, we should be finishing better that our 6th placing last year. Like the saying goes, in order to finish first, we have to first finish,” added Najmi.
[quote=Nohad]Don’t know whether you guys are interested. Since the VISA is still open on this saturday afternoon, why not pop over there after our lunch this saturday?[/quote]
Wah after enduro pon tak cukup2 lagi..
[quote=Nohad]CONFIRMED! Kartquest took over the running of the track wef today.
Only the 4-stroke funkarts are available for now.
RM35 – 10 mins
RM50 – 15 mins[/quote]
Do we need to pay deposit and wear their suit?
[quote=alvinkhorfire]Thanks for the tips. Yeah, it is surpising to see they can hit the brake so hard yet for a very short time, and they take the corner perhaps with a little drifting, but without spinning. If I hit the brake too shoft and too hard, I would have spinned. Guess that I have a lot to catch up.
[/quote]personal weight would be another factor…
Maybe you need to update your codes on your PC. Reinstall and try it again.
Is that 125 with shifter kart? I notice some kart still using shifter kart and some dont. Why? Would there be any difference or gap for clutchless and shifter kart to race with each other? Sorry not quite familiar with technical kart stuff.
Try to assign your own braking points on every each corner, eg/ tyre wall, lamp posts, apex, etc.
Brake early until you’ll comfortable with your machine. Not all karting machines there are perfect. Slow in, fast out.Remember, make yourself comfortable and dont spend too much time on the brakes too long or else you’ll lose time and position.
[quote=OSFlanker][quote=NiZeR]3k inn rm99 in subang[/quote]
Hotel Histana in Klang is cheaper, I think RM80 nett…….but I heard it is not that “clean”, ehem……[/quote]
not that “clean”
How much?
Never underestimate on women in racing. Check this young Philipino driver. Sponsored by Malaysia Airlines. Not bad for a chick.
The best to get there is by taking taxi or get someone to pick you up to the track. Public transportation in KL are a bit mess, seriously.
AY search calendar
Rd. 2 21 May 2006
Rd. 3 18 June 2006
Rd. 4 16 Jul 2006
Grand final 13 Aug 2006*0900hrs – Registration
*All rounds in Sepang Kart Circuit
*Entrance Fee – RM150 / RM100 Pan Global Insurance Holder[quote=des_k]COngratulations to Nazri Ng for becoming champion on round 1 !!!!
and also Ramsey that qualified for the final on August.
[/quote]Thx dude, was lucky to grab the final spot (6th), the rest 4 including Mr. Gudang Garam Razak. Guess i need to enter mykart endurance as much as possible for the AY final championship in august.
