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Old 09-08-2008, 09:47 AM
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It has been a great experience.

Would like to give my special thanks to the whole team especially Gerald, Keechoon, Dexter, Tim, Joo kiah & Clarence for their wonderful support during the race.

Sorry to have failed you guys with my first lap traction roll. Oh well, so close yet so far. Haha... Hopefully better luck next year.

Thanks again all!
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Old 09-08-2008, 09:57 AM
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Old 09-08-2008, 10:30 AM
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Day one...Thursday...we had a good time gathering and getting to our destination...the Aeroline was really great..with food available..and free movie.......but i guess we really regretted watching Tokyo Drift..cos the rest of us became he drifters for the next few days!
The rest of the day was spent checking into the rooms and not forgetting getting familiar with the mall..One Utama
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Day 2 was controlled practice and also the practice sessions...i must say we were rather unprepared with the low traction surface though having racing on carpet for almost half the season.....the amount of Fur wad really bad....really reminded me of the Final Race at the singapore expo back in 2005..

we all had our own form of stress towards the end of the day..as doing well will put you into a good heat.....i must say most of our team did well for this..with about half in the first heat!
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Day 3...4 rounds of qualifying..everybody's pace was up or maybe it was the free practice that allowed all drivers to have extra track time...

I must say the best heat was still the first heat as the more the carpet was runned..the poorer the traction it was..wierd....i did a blunder and ended up qualifying 6th in GT while Py...or should i say James..did extremely well in 3rd place..esmail and kenneth unfortunately got kicked further down the order as everybody did better and we still had a little traction issues as new tires really were not as fantastic as what we thought...it was the tires that were 6 months old that worked

Allister in stock did a 3rd at the end of the day a lap down from the leader....well..actually just 3 seconds behind.....1 second short of an extra lap...

Our mini chassis champ was well up on pace as well as he missed the tq by 1 second...a pity....he was in 3rd....

we all did our cars till late at the track before returning to our rooms to await the final battle...
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Final qualifying and the main event..

It was the last attempt for everyone as times were really slashed....PY and 1 remained on pace and were among the 5 who clocked the 23 lappers..in a short time of 1 second....the 2nd to the 5th slots were determined with py finishing 0.5 second better then me qualifying in 3rd while i ended up in the middle of the field in 5th....both on the inside and the less preferred place on the grid..

as for Ali...he was on steroids as he did a TQ time.....shocking the whole field.....we were very happy for him too...Chua climbed up to 5th while our little boy xaviour climed from 11th to 8th bringing him to the A mains...Kevin unfortunately unable to make the cut fell down the order from 10th into the B mains..

Goh did an amazing run and climbed into the top 10 while our Leonard failed to out perform his previous days results as he started traction rolling.

Buggy guys unfortunately did not do too well as terence dropped to 9th on the grid while tony having not improving got kicked into the BQ spot...a pity indeed.!
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Finals.....

Stock class.....Ali won both with a class of his own as his closest rivals were always about a few corners behind..of cos there were times when we had to hold our breadths as he propelled through the traffic.....with 2 wins and having cleared the inspection....Team Singapore were all high spirited..

Chua and xavior unfortunately had some crashes in the start bringing them down the field.....but They did well .....not forgetting Kevin that did manage to climb up the field after a horrible start....a big applause for him for the good effort!

M chassis..hopes were on Zhikai as it was between him and the korean driver fighting for the ticket to japan...ah kai just had to finish ahead of the rest of the field behind the ex winners as the ex winners do not qualify for the ticket anymore.It was down to the last final and last couple of laps but the korean held on to finish ahead of Leonard.....a good effort..but guess it was just not good enough for leonard....good try my friend...A REALLY WELL EARNED 4TH!

Buggy guys..unfortunately i was too held up in my car that i did not see the buggy A mains.....but Terence did on pretty well to complete the finals...he finished a respectable 10th in the field of 30 drivers in Buggy .....

Tony....well...He won the B main with ease as he was really close to running the whole race on a clean sheet....HE brought home the B cup....hehe!

Gt class.....well...

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Py and I were the 2 on the inside line of the grid....the dusty area.

the start of the first finals saw a clean start and me climbing my way to 2nd....py unfortunately dropped down the ranks....Faiho from Hk was too far to be caught when it came to the 4th minute mark as i set myself for a safemode and bring home the 2nd then to puh further.

2nd final was a bad one as i saw myself being crashed out and having to start the race from 10th after the 2nd corner....py was slightly ahead of me and we had to end the race battling among ourselves for the 4th and 5th spot as the 2nd position racer got disqualified.....James finished ahead of me in 4th.....good job james..

last final was bad again for me as i got into a crash from behind...again.....Climbing from 10th to 4th spot as the race turned out to be a race of attrittion...py was somewhere in the mid field when he hit the sweeper and demaged his servo saver and having to retire....i tried my best but it was too little too late as i only managed a 4th......at the end losing the last and final spot on the podium by a position as we were tied on points for the 3rd spot..the korean finishing 3rd for 2 rounds and his thrown away result being 4th while my 2nd and 4th with a thrown away being 5th was just a point behind....

James did a respectable 6th ...a great job for a first timer TAC......The man to watch out for next year

For all our fellow racers....those who did not do that well,don't be discouraged as remember..there is always next year.....always learn from mistakes and take this as a learning experience....we walk out of this with more knowledge of our cars as well as valuable experience......Perserverance and determination will bring you to Japan one day.....

Many thanks to Stargek for the great year of racing and also organising this unforgettable trip up to KL.....I am sure many of us will look forward to the next year's season..ONLY TO BE BETTER THEN THIS YEAR'S....also have got to thank our fellow support cast like TIM,Clarence,Joo Kiah,Nancy and Eddy....and the Man Andrew...how can we forget him!........Best of luck to Allister in Japan later this November.
GO GO TEAM SINGAPORE!

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Old 09-08-2008, 11:55 AM
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very nice write up Kelvin!

congrats to all winners and Team Singapore!

thumbs up Alister and all the best in Japan!

G G Team Singapre!
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