A good example of what happens when you hand a camera to your students to video your practice tandem runs. Commentary courtesy by “Seattle” Bob and Francis ” The cockroach ” B
When your students becomes your critic…
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SODA session @ Shah Alam 18th Feb 2012
We had 8 participants joining us for this session which the majority were our former students from Singapore. Huge improvements were gained by the end of the day with some venturing into tandem drifting.
Some important basics were often overlooked but were stressed on during this session
Bob was definitely the most improved drifter from the bunch.
Tips were given throughout the day
Francis is certainly getting familiar with his cockroach mobile and is getting pretty consistent with his drifting
The participants
Great to see the participants leaving with their car panels and bodykits still intact 🙂
SODA Session @ Shah Alam 10th Feb 2012
It was another SODA Session with Jeevan, Francis ,DK and I. Practice went smoothly as usual but we really got to hand it to DK for his grand entrance.
Expecting a Panamera Turbo or some exotics, he surprised us all by flying in his private heli
DK will be making his appearance tonight..maybe with a lot less flash 😉
Long Term Review : Liqui Moly Ceratec .. So far so good!
It has been almost 9 months since I poured a bottle of Liqui Moly Ceratec into my road legal drift car . This was during the Ultra Racing’s Drift Challenge in Batu Pahat and I have yet to get the oil changed on the S13!! Besides the lack of time as the major reason for not doing so, I have not found the reason to do so. For one; The S13 had only accumulated a total of slightly above 2000 kilometers since the last oil change, which was also when I poured the Ceratec in .However, one should take note that this was 2000 kilometers of hard driving and drifting as this car use to be a regular at MARDI’s weekly drift events ( that place still rocks!!) and two; I did not experience any noise or heat issues related to engine oil breaking down. To put it plainly, the engine runs as smoothly and quietly as it did 2000 kilos ago.
In all honesty, heat is the only quantitative indicator that I am basing this review on as I do not have any instruments to measure smoothness or quietness . However I do know when the engine is excessively noisy or running a bit rough which I am happy to say it is not.
So now we know this product works. Next is to see if this product lives up to the claim of continual protection even after 3-4 oil changes. Stay tuned as I get the s13 oil changed!!
RacePod Drift Challenge Series Rd1 @ Dato’ Sagor Circuit 7th & 8th Jan 2012
Photos by David Soo
Known to be one of Malaysia’s best track to drift on , Federation D had chosen Dato’ Sagor circuit to be the venue for round 1 of their RacePod Drift Challenge Series. With it’s fast entries, followed by an equally fast sweeping corner, this track has proven to be on of the most challenging track around. Due to its higher speed, this track is also known to eat up tires. I was as first reluctant to enter the competition as I had only 2 pairs of new Kumho tyres left and knew the other used pairs won’t last very long in these conditions . However upon hearing Federation D’s offer to subsidize the trailer fees for all the competitors , I had decided to bring J4M8U for practice ,as I had a fair amount of 17″ tyres, and will use SLOW for the qualifying and competition!
We were also excited for this competition as our student and friend, Francis will also joining us with his “Cockroach” A31. This will be the first time for Francis to be competiting in a drift competition .
Things were perfect at the beginning of the day where Jane and I managed to do a few good run until disaster struck;
While avoiding a spun car in front, the car behind me ,which was quiet a distant away, ran straight into me! A broken intercooler, damaged radiator and a broken fan and shroud ended J4m8u’s day thus ending my practice. I was totally devastated as this ruined my chances of practice and was even considering packing up and leave. However I had decided against it and nursed whatever used tires I had for SLOW and did a fair abit of runs on bald tires!! Going fast nowhere would best describe my runs
Day2
The next day I managed to squeeze a few more practice runs on the used tires before turning to the new ones for qualifying and competition. The new tires really had massive grip!!! So much so that I totally screwed my pre-qualifying and 1st qualifying run!! I had one more run to go and gave it everything and managed to place 3rd in qualifying.
Jane did excellently throughout the weekend but had gearbox issues where the gear kept popping during her first run but managed to do a good run for her second attempt. However it was deemed not good enough for best 16 .
Francis improved tremendously as the weekend progressed and managed to drift the whole course . However he too missed the cut but I am sure it will just be a matter of time before he does!
The tandem runs were fairly straight forward but I was knocked out at the 2nd stage, when I fumbled at the last corner , by Mr Rocker Loh who drifter superbly tat day!!
We would like to thank everyone for supporting us,especially H for the tent, Mike and Cheryl for the videos and taking care of Johanna, Jeevan for fixing my drive shaft boot and the GanuDrift guys for towing J4M8U to the trailer 🙂
Results
5th placing ARIFF JOHANIS AHMAD Team Sync Optima Tayaria Kumho
DNQ AZRINA JANE ABDULLAH Team Sync Optima
DNQ FRANCIS B FERNANDES Team Cockroach
Team Drift Battle Royale @ SpeedCity 31st Dec 2011
There was no other better way than spending our New Year’s eve than competiting in the Team Drift Battle Royale competition. Yoong, Jane and I took on 8 other teams to win this final drift competition 0f 2011!
Photos by Klemann Javier
It was great to end the year with a high note and also to celebrate my first win with my new tyre sponsor Kumho!!