The champion of the challenge goes to Tan Tat Wei from Team Bridgestone, 2nd place is Zulfikar from Team Falken , and 3rd place goes to Johan Norman from Team Goodyear. It was spectacular, with thrills and suspense to the drifters and the crowds, as the entire competing drifter’s were very outstanding and judging was hard for the judge. There were few rounds, that the judge had to give extra rounds as the two rounds of the ‘tsuitso battle’ was though (both drifter’s in the tsuitso battle had scored high points on the entering speed , angle, and throttle control) The judge for this spectacular event was Arif Johanis from Sync Optima a well known ‘old timer’ in the industry among its enthusiast and the emcee for the event was Shahril Asuan Ibrahim (Wanbra) another famous man in the local drifting scene from Feinto-D. All the drifters were very outstanding with maximum entering speed and angle. But advantages go to the powerful cars and mostly the turbo powered cars. Some of the drifters were outstanding but unlucky and got into an accident, Danny Loong from Team Caretex, third place winner of Malaysian Drift Challenge Round 1, losses control and hit the tire barriers but managed to qualify to the final rounds. With an underpowered car and a sunny day just makes a drifter like him hard to climb into the best 8 group. Kudos to Danny Loong on having such high spirit to finish the round even though was hard for him after the accident which sees some parts of the car’s been damaged. High times of the competition when entering into the ‘Best 8’ round which all the drifter’s were performing to the maximum.
There was an intense moment from the crowd and the drifters when during the tsuito battle between Mervyn from Team Federal & Oan from Team Goodyear . The tsuito were so intense and dramatic as there the crowd mostly seconded Mervyn to win the battle but the judge, Ariff Johanis has its points even after being protest by Mervyn himself and the round goes to Oan. Oan won and qualify to the next round. During the battle , Mervyn had showed an outstanding performances despite having some difficulties with the car.
A new comer to the Speedway Plus Circuit, Zulfikar from Team Falken had showed consistency and skillful drifting and is one of rising stars in the drift scene. He finished 2nd place in Malaysian Drift Challenge Round 1 and again he made it to the 2nd place for this round 2.The event finished at around 5 p.m. A demo ride of the cub prix was also held at the end of the event for honorary guess of the event, Yg Bhg Dato’ Haji Fathul Razi Haji Bakri, Director General of Ministry of Youth & Sports Malaysia before the tea time and prize giving ceremony to the winner’s of the Malaysian Drift Challenge Round 3 2008, and mark the closing of the calendar year of 2008 for the event.
5th place : Mervyn Mohamed [Team Federal]
The event was promoted by Comma Motorsports, supported by Speedway PLUS Circuit and Goodyear.
* for more info & action , checkout the event @ xtreme channel on www.hypp.tv
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Well written guys. Keep up the good work. its wonderfull what ur doin where all car enthusiast can read up and update themselves about the motorsport scene here in malaysia. hope to see you guys some day soon! mervyn
ReplyDeletebros when and wheres the next drift comp..replies would be greatly appreciated
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