The two day roadshow for the Goodyear Formula Drift Malaysia was held at 1 Utama shopping Mall. With Goodyear Tires ,Tyrepac, CIMB and ESPN represented, this roadshow served the purpose of not only promoting the event but also educating the general public about the sport of drifting which suprisingly very few knows about. Tickets were also being sold hence we got to meet quiet a number of drifters and fans !
Johan was all decked out that day….
cause he was the man………
The Prince of drift with the King of style
Dragstar’s Ann came by too…
Its obvious I can’t carry the look like Johan with his glasses…here with Goodyear’s Puay Ling
Michael Gan and I had a little competition of our own…which I lost.
In desperate need of a win I pulled in another opponent….the sequence of shot kinda reflects my performance through out the year….
In conjuction to the Goodyear’s Formula Drift Malaysia, Hypertune wanted to have Jane on the cover of their December issue. So Mark, CK and assistant came along to shoot her along with the AE86 .CK is definately one of the best photographer out there and it was a pleasure watching how a professional photo shoots is done.
CK and assistant shoots Cheaka while Mark tries to find an angle for the article…
My attempt of shooting Cheaka…a bit to butchy don’t you think?
Cheaka and I were invited to give drift taxi rides during the Digi Yellow Army Graduation Party at its Shah Alam Headquarters. Honestly , this was the first time I’ve heard of such an event and images of overweight people in yellow spandex suits sprung into mind. However, we were relieved that the people we had to taxi were normal sized and thankfully so as we only had our underpowered AE86s to use as our main drift cars were still stuck in customs coming back from Thailand :p
Anyway, the drifting was done its ‘other’ car park away from the main building where the other activities were held. Cheaka left me for a while to do a motivational speech to the graduates.
We got done almost at seven and was just in time to watch Hannah Tan give out autographs and Man Bai’s performance…
Cheng insisting they all wear their helmets during the ride..
Yes ..ladies n gentlemen, the person in the brown hat is none other than Malaysian superstar drifter Ivan Lau who was part of my support crew that day..Ivan insisted I used the chain ring fence as my rear clipping point during the taxi ride to make it more ‘exciting’…yeah right
err..I think she was one of the speakers
This is either someone’s father or another speaker…
Jane’s motivational speech..I suspect this is the part where she digs into the audience’s guilt or something cause they all look as if…
Organised by Mitsubishi’s distributor Cycle and Carriage, the Mitsubishi Extreme Drive gave its 200 participants a hands on experience on performing stunts such as ramp to ramp jumps, 360 spins ,j-turns and slip and slide on their showcased Ralliart Lancer Ex , Evo X and Colt R!
For three solid days , instructors Ivan Lim, Kevin Flynn, Danny, CK , Cheaka and I, brought togather by Pit Crew, had a whale of a time pushing these cars to the limit while teaching the participants how the stunts are performed(. Ivan and I took the J-turn, Cheaka the 360 spin , CK the slip and slide while Danny and Kevin did the ramp jump). I got a bad bout of motion sickness on the first day but got over it the following days. Ivan and I calculated that we sat through over 800 J turns combined ( 1 demo + 3 tries x over 200 participants). Cheaka went through almost the same numbers too but one thing that we all looked forward to was the Hot Laps that happens at the end of each session. We were each given a car to taxi the participants through a given course. I had a hand on the Evo X (manual and TC-SSC) and the Ralliart Lancer Ex( TC-SSC) and was pleasantly surprised that I preferred the TC-SSC over the manual. The shifts were seamless upwards and downwards, so much so that ,when I had the Ralliart Lancer Ex during the Hot Laps , I left it on full auto and was so much faster than Ivan who was in a manual EVO X!!
Here are some of the photos taken throughout the three days we were there…
The extremely fun and friendly Shell girls ..thanks for taking care of my camera girls
Eileen and Marcus
Ivan’s Vicks snorting habit didn’t gel to well with the girls
TV celebrity Jit and his producer was there too…Jit is extremely hilarious behind the camera and has a vast vocabulary of swear words in many languages
The sweet registration girls
Fred swears he isn’t making a face………..
Jason , Hassan and Eileen…guys if you have to know , Hassan’s mother cooks a mean Bryani dish !!!
Picture taken from www.sgcarmart.com
Picture taken from sgcarmart.com: Cheaka’s tai chi moves failed to impressed the participants
Picture taken from www. sgcarmart.com ;Car sickness didn’t get Kevin Flynn but a sore back did ..heeheheeheeheeheh
Jason, Elaine and Michelle
The video crew
Pit Crew’s Wii character lookalike
Nothing like a nice meal with friends, Heng( Drift Ninja)and family along with Nash (Drifttonowhere)
Here are some of the videos made of the event. The embedded feature has been disabled , so just click on it twice and a new window will pop up…
