After almost 4 months at the shop sorting it out, AE86T is finally back running on new suspensions and uprated rear axel, courtesy of my new sponsors ACE Suspensions. The engine has also some tweaks done to it which I am excited to test it out soon.
‘Welcome back sweetie, I promise I won’t let that naughty uncle Ivan come close to you again’ 😛
Coming back to round 1 of the Ace Drift Challenge this year, after somewhat dominating the whole of last year’s series, proved to be a bitter sweet experience for me and us as a team. The s13 ,though having a whole year to experiement with, still showed some short comings which was attributed to some set up changes suggested to me late last year. With a solid day of drifting during the first day it was apparent that the set up wasn’t suitable and changes should be made as soon as we got home for this event. This had left me with no choice but to run the car on its current set up for the competition held on the next day.
Qualifying was a bit of a confusing affair as I was unaware that the last two front clipping points were ommited just before our qualifying run. As a result I only managed a 8th qualifying position. My bid for top position was cut short during the best 16 with me hitting the wall during my first tsuiso run…oh well
Jane qualified into the best 32 with a 28th position with her strong qualifying run. During her Top 32 tsuiso run , she gave Weichek a run for his money by forcing her way into a one more time which Weichek had won through the narrowest of margin
Mike Kong also qualified at 29th position and managed to beat his opponent who also happens to be our former student Winston Ang during the Top 32 battle. Mike failed to go past best 16 which earned him 16th overall
Results
9th Ariff Johanis Ahmad Sync Optima Goodyear
16th Mike Kong Sync Optima Wil Power
28th Azrina Jane Sync Optima Goodyear
Video courtesy of Winston Ang of Jane and I during practice day.
Azrina Jane Abdullah with Red Bull on board
Team Goodyear Sync Optima Driver, Azrina Jane Abdullah (better known as Jane) sign with Red Bull Malaysia as the new addition to the Red Bull Athlete program for her 2011 drift campaign.
Jane was introduced to the Red Bull family when she was at a special gathering for Red Bull Rookie project last year. She met other Red Bull Rookie drivers including their trainer, Kenvin Low from AADA.
“I’m very happy to be part of the Red Bull Athlete program this year. I am proud to say that being involved with my favourite energy drink and the coolest brand in Malaysia is something I never dreamed of happening,” said excitedly by Jane.
Do keep a look out for Jane this year with her new Red Bull feature in her Nissan 180sx for the upcoming drift events.
Well Mardi (MAEPS) isn’t going anywhere but the drifting activities held there have ended as the land have been sold to a developer of sorts. We were there yesterday for its very last drift session joined by the guys from Drift Garage Singapore.
The graduates that did 2nd by 3pm…hell yeah!!!!
