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Donut’s Drift Day (3D) version 1: MAEPS 23/8/2009
It’s been a while since we’ve been to a drift session . So , we jumped on the opportunity to join one when Drift House’s Joe Han and James did one last Sunday .Held in MAEPS, Serdang, a total of almost 20 cars took part in this private session which includes season autocrossers, drag racers , circuit racers and radio celebrities.
Despite of me getting my sideskirt broken and Cheaka breaking her gear box (!!!),we had so much fun that only towards the end that I had realised that I had fogotten to take photos of the event. I brought the DSLR but choose to use my camera phone instead. So here are pictures of whoever was left at that time..sorry 
Cheaka’s 180sx suffered a broken 3rd gear early in the session..Barry/Low orange KE70 in the back ground
(L-R)Lim Joe Han (Donut) , Cheaka, Terrence Lim ( Datuk) and Dexter…Three of the guys here are Malaysia’s 1st Gen drifter who are planning to make a come back!!
Marco with his newly accquired Long Champs
Taman Wawasan Drifters with a cool pick up…drifted for a while only though
My poor coupe with a broken sideskirt and dented door…took the picture on the undamaged side
Joe Han and James are planning to make this a monthly event ..so keep a look out for the next one after Hari Raya!!!
GRA Round 3 @ Sepang 16th August 2009 ; Goodyear Asymetric on the podium!!
Since we withdrew from our role as the drift competition organiser for the MICCOS event. I had decided to participate in GRA’s round 3 and try to salvage whatever position I had since I had missed GRA round 2 due to the clashing of dates of Formula D Singapore. In round 1, I was running 2nd in Pro OD class and I hope to get a least a top 5 by the end of the series.
I have always enjoyed the GRA competition as not only the experience gained from entering such an event has help me to improve as a driver but also because the event is so well organised , kudos to Mr and Mrs Ian Khong!!
Mr and Mrs Ian Khong and Mr Tang MAM steward
The other competitors competing also make up the reason why its such a joy to be part of this Auto cross event! With Top pros such as Ivan Khong , Andy Kow, Mike Ng and Mickey Teoh ,all willing to share their experience and are extremely generous with tips and advise on improving your runs!!
Two of my sifus; Mike Ng and Mickey Teoh
This round is said to be the fastest out of the series , with cars hitting in access of 160km/h on the straights. A total of over 60 participants made out of Pro and Beginner categories
Lim Joe Han with his V8 Cefrio winning fastest FR NA class and the Bling bling award!!
Joe Han showing us his is slim enough to fit under the car’s undercarriage without the aid of a jack
Tina showing us her bolting skills 🙂
Yoong’s run were extremely clean and fast!!! He was running on a killer combo of RS sports in the front and rear..thanks for the tips bro..
As usual Yoong was super fast that day clinching the fastest overall time and 1st place in Pro OD with almost 3 seconds ahead from 2nd fastest Andy Kow with me trailing Andy by a hair below 1 sec!!
Results were posted after each run
Yoong practicing his pose to the camera when recieving his 1st place trophy during the award ceremony
The Eco Coat girls
Yoong 1st!!!
Andy Kow recieves 2nd
Me in 3rd
Ivan Khong in 4th
The S13 which I was competing in for this event was fresh from FxOpen event we entered the week before. Running on Eagel Rs sport in front and the Eagle F1 Asymetric in the rear, I was fairly confident that this set up would be perform well for a competition of this genre as tyre tempreture would not be as high as it is as compared to drifting. This is in regards with the Asymetrics which I felt , behaved a lot differently from the normal RevSpec we usually run behind ! What I really was impressed with was its low tempreture performance which I think would come as a bonus here in GRA. Looking at our used Asymetrics we had from the Malacca event, I had noticed that tire wear was more evident on the inner side of the tire, a clear sign of the soft wall technology these tyres had incorporated in its design. It was then apparent that, due to inexperience , we were running too low of a pressure thinking that it will give us more grip. So I decided to run on a slightly higher pressure and see how it performed.
The tyres performed execptionally well, worthy of its 5 star ratings it had received in reviews. So much so that I had not only placed 3rd fastest in the OD catagory but also 3rd overall!!!This I believe is the first podium finish for Goodyear Eagel F1 Asymetric in a competition in Malaysia!!!
Yipeeeeeee
FXOpen Challenge@ MIMC Malacca 8th-9th August 2009
Tipped to be the biggest kart track in South East Asia, the Malacca International Motor Circuit played host to the inaugural FXOpen Drift Challenge in Durian Tunggal, Malacca.
Picture taken by ozzmosis
Picture taken by ozzmosis
The Managing Director of MIMC ,Tuan Shaharul B Hj Mohd Ali , someone that I had the pleasure of meeting who is such a charismatic yet humble person. Keep a look out for more good things to happen on this track!
The 1.7 km track with a width of 10 meters promised to be a challenge as the section used for the drift course has a tight entry which is taken in third gear!! .
This track also houses top notched facilities such as shuttered pits, air conditioned briefing rooms and restaurant which were made available to all the 27 participating drifters .
Leading to the day of the event, we attempted find out more about the course and had found a video a drift session they had a couple of weeks earlier.
Armed with that, along with the track lay out with the ideal drift line diagram posted by the organisers of the event, we set off to the track early Saturday morning
The track lay out and optimum line given by the organisers which was disregarded prior to qualifying
Some drifters skipped breakfast just to be there early..
Warna nyata boys all set to begin practice
Jane supervising the Goodyear display while Ejat ‘tumpang G’
Jane…phweet pose
Rudy’s new ride making its first appearence
This is how an engine bay of an over 500WHP monster looks like
Zulfika fixing his fenders after a little mishap while photographer Elli looks on
Top pro drifter Kim Wan, who wasn’t competing, giving his Boostzone team mate some techniques advice
Yokohama’s Ah Heng and crew
Ray improved tremedously…must have been the private lessons he has been receiving
Practice is the most important aspect when it comes to any competition as whatever your learn from it will be applied during the competition. However we were later informed during the pre qualifying briefing, that whatever we did during practice was all wrong, with me in particular with the feint maneuver that I was performing prior to the entry .Having to go straight to qualifying without any warm up or practice for me to try out the next entry technique insisted by the judges, I had to make sure that my ‘winging it’ mode was enough to get me to the best 16th. Thankfully I managed a 9th placing with Jane doing well with a 16th in qualfying. Loyai was totally nailing his runs with ‘text book’ runs which earned him the top qualifier position!!
Being in the last spot in the top sixteen had Jane going against Loyai who was in first. Jane held strong when following Loyai which earn her a 5-5 score but had straighten during her time to lead. I had to go against BoostZone’s Ng Choon Lai, who is one of the nicest person in the drifting scene but is also one of the most ruthless competitor around!! With his beast of a machine and his expectionally high skills, I was in for a fight. I managed to hold my position during while being led by him but unfortunately for Choon Lai , he had veered of track when I was leading !
Ng Choon Lai on the right
Top 8 had me go against Loyai! As most people know, Loyai is a good friend and we always joke about having to tsuiso against each other to settle any whatever arguments we get ourselves into. I found it funny that this time it was for real and Loyai came over to my pit, handing me his handphone, asking me to protest to the juges about us going against each other!! Infact I was still laughing while we were lining up for our runs. Anyway the fight was close and I was awarded the win when Loyai had straighten at the first corner.
Loyai is the good looking one in the red t shirt , the other person is Djan..heehehee
Top 4 had me go against another BoostZone driver,KT Wong. Having one of the nicest AE86 around , KT was really consistent during his practice runs and displayed some nice tsuisoing runs with Ng Choon Lai during the practice run. I had an a slight advantage during my first run against him but was unfortunate to have spun out while recovering while trying to avoid hitting him on the last corner! A silly mistake of being too aggressive which I hope not to repeat!
KT Wong’s nice AE86
The fight for 3rd and 4th, this time around I had to go against another competitior with a’ smallish’ car driven by Derek Lim! He was super fast and had grip at wherever I had none! A one more time was called up and he promptly disposed of me thus taking the final spot on the podium!!!
Derek Lim’s ride…
Final result…
Tan Tat Wei winning top podium
KT Wong, with a deserving second
Derek Lim clinching the final spot on the podium
Me in fourth
I suppose with Jane making it to top 16th and me getting a 4th placing in the finals is not so bad considering what we had to go through; with me having to improvise during qualifying and both of us having to adapt to a tire we were totally new to *. I am sure , both of us and the team , have gained from this experience which we will reap its benefits in the near future!!
(L-R) Mr Law, Tuan Shaharul B Hj Mohd Ali , Jane, Me , Puay Ling and Ejat
Goodyear’s Mr Law and Puay Ling came all the way from KL to watch the competition.!!
*Incidently, this event was our first time using the Goodyear F1 Asymetric tyres. This tyres has been given 5 star ratings in their reviews and we were excited to be given the chance to give them a try. Off the bat, I was impressed with how high the grip level was when it was cold. Unlike the Revspecs which requires to be heated up, the Asymetrics were spot on during my first few laps on the course. With its deep grooves in its thread design, I believe this tire would perform expectionally well in the wet too!! Bear in mind, these tyres were not designed for drifting ,which puts the tires through extreme abuse and tempretures ,something that normal road user will never put the tires through .In that aspect ,the RevSpecs were a lot better as we had trouble adapting to the Asymetric’s characteristics when the tyre and track tempreture went up ,causing a few off road excurtions for both Jane and I. However , given time ,I am sure with a bit of tweaking of the car’s settings, this could be easily be remedied . Having said that, for normal driving with a couple of sprited runs thrown in for good measure, regradless of the weather or condition ,the Asymetrics gets 5 stars from me too!!
Results
4th place ARIFF JOHANIS AHMAD ( GOODYEAR SYNC OPTIMA)
16th place AZRINA JANE ABDULLAH ( GOODYEAR SYNC OPTIMA)
Blast from the past # 2
Taken during DCM’s Defying Grip Challenge in 2004 where doing stuff like this earns you more points during qualifying.. (credit goes to the photographer who took this)