Its been awhile

Its been awhile since the last post. I was too busy with the racing I had for the past couple of weeks ago. First, its the KKS and yesterday was the Endurance race organized by My-Kart. The KKS was the worst race that I had in my career so far to be honest. I had a very bad setup, I was off the pace by 3 secs per lap and some stupid mistakes in the pit lane itself =( . The final race was wet though. Had to drive with the rubbish tires all weekend, I struggled to get the grips of the kart and had a DNF in the pre-final. At the end of the day I got 10th out of 14th. I feel demoralised after the race until the endurance race.



A week after the KKS, I'm all for the My-Kart's MME. Everything went well at 1st, qualified at the middle since the kart wasn't up to the optimum performance yet. We were 4th coming on to an easy 3rd or maybe more until our wheels almost came off at the half of session running. We had to pit obviously, costing us 12 laps. The mechanics weren't so helpful though. A simple knock on the wheels is enough to make it running again but at a rate off 1.16 mins a lap from fairly consistent 1.12s, all seems to went down the drain. We managed to salvage 9th place overall out of 14th which was not bad considering the damage we had. It seems to me 9th is the way to go for me in 2008. Forget about the last year, its 2009 now and lets start with lots of resolutions!

1st. Be active in motorsports. I mean very active since I have all the time in the world to make that Insyaallah, F1,F2,GP2,GP3,A1,FBMW,FPA,FRenault,BTCC,WTCC any thing you name it!
2nd. Learn something new. I do that every year but this time motorsports wise ;)
3rd. A full season in karting. No matter how good or bad I am, I'm still racing ok? I don't give plank of the criticism >:)
4th. Improve yourself. Not just in racing, life and so forth :)
5th. Join Formula racing. Its a big dream but why dream small when you can dream big?
6th. More passionate
7th. The new Alfa Romeos. May I get one please?
8th. Make everyone happy. Seems hard but not impossible :-)
9th. Quit bad habits
10th. Like every year be faithful. I am by the way :-D
11th. Join MME. If the price/place is right.
12th. Make myself useful in every fields
13th. Get fitter! My fitness is average for a racing driver so must get into the higher level of fitness.
14th. Smile more frown less
15th. Stay away from sins
16th. Be less afraid when it comes to challenges.
17th. Be green. I am a green man but this year I'll try to be as green as a young tea leaf.
18th. Promote people to a healthy and faithful life :-)
19th. Travel around the peninsula with a car!
20th. Errr get a girlfriend? Well if I have the luck but hmmm maybe I'll wait lol

Anyway, that's all that I can think of. Happy New Year!!

Painful and a sharp pill to swallow.

Its a really sad day, a painful one to be frank. First of all, I've decided to withdraw from the Yamaha SL Final this Sunday. The reason was, I had an accident a couple of days ago and it was a bad one. I got thrown out from a kart and landed heavily(just like MotoGP). I have scratches all over me and some swollen body parts =(. I still can kart though, however my mechanics aren't around and I have to rely on Mikko to be my mechanic. I thought I was up for it but after thinking that I'll have to do a hefty amount of lifting a kart and constantly using my shoulders for everything, it won't be a picnic for me even if the mechanics are around so I decided to withdraw and let it heal for the Final of KKS next Sunday. I can't afford to miss out a lot of races now y'know so maybe I just keep my body safe from injuries. I've learned a new lesson too! I should put on all my safety gear(including suits) even when I'm fun karting. I would like to take this opportunity to advice all of you drivers and racers out there. Be safe, be careful, don't be too aggressive, learn more about the safety of a vehicle and such and don't forget the seatbelts(well of course in racing you are REQUIRED to do so).

Not to mention Hari Raya Aidiladha is coming too and I would like to wish you all Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha =D. Drive safe and enjoy your holidays!

All is well?

Have you ever had a feeling...a good feeling but it ended up very badly? For example when you are planning to go to a fancy restaurant with a date. A beautiful date, you got your salary to spend, traffic's not in the way to disturb you on the way to the restaurant and when you reached the restaurant you found out that the restaurant was burned down and you had do with the restaurant nearby which is a contrast between the restaurant you originally planned? Dirty, filthy and such. Even if you want to turn back, the traffic's full and your date is complaining that she's hungry. Enough about that, it happened to me last Saturday in the My-Kart K3 race. The 1st heat was good, I finished 2nd with a slow kart(the kart ahead was too fast for me and eventually the kart won it all). However, the track conditions made up for it. Wet and slippery that's what I needed for a slow kart. Brandon Lim and me finished 1-2 respectively but we were demoted 10 places down due to jumpstart. This angered me and Brandon because the jumpstart occurred obviously during the start of the race. Yes I do admit that what I did was wrong and was unaware about it since I've raced in real karting competition, when you see a green flags been waved, FULL SPEED AHEAD!! No one is going to give you a chance! The incident happened at the 1st lap of the race. The real penalty for that is a drive through penalty. That would the most fitting penalty for that kind of behaviour. Otherwise why would we be pushing as hell until the end of race? Somebody needs to buy a drive through penalty flag! Moving on to the 2nd heat. So I started legally this time ;) but before that my kart stalled at the rolling lap so I had to take a spare kart(Its ok no brakes but nvm bout that who needs em in 80cc). Again I bit the dust of the fast kart that dominated the whole event. I finished a very safe 2nd though just like the 1st one. That made me qualified for the Group A Final(just). This is the hard part telling. There was a confusion during kart selection. I picked '11' but the kart wasn't there at the grid so I picked up another spare kart which was so so rubbish! I started at the middle of the grid. Right after the green flag waves off, everyone overtook me and yes I finished dead last in the end. No matter, its just a fun race anyway I have other big races to focus on =) . The Yamaha SL Cup final round would be in a week's time. I hope Mikko's back soon so I can enter the competition as I craved for real competition for awhile already. I also booked a hotel for the 13-14th Dec KKS Championship =) . I also made a plan about next year's racing activities including a BIG ambitions to enter the Formula Renault Championships next year. With Rotax Max Challenge, KKS Championships and Yamaha SL Cup, it'll be a packed year full of motorsport activities.

Also this week I brought my 2 lovely cars to take on Sepang F1 track. On Wednesday, I brought the GTI. It's business as usual as the car behaved pretty much safe at the track. Albeit too safe for my reckoning. On Thursday I brought the Alfa 156 GTA which was a terrifying experience. Well a good terrified though. The car was pretty much safe with the traction control on, so we decided to off it and.....all hell breaks loose. We were all over the place! We enjoyed it so much until the brakes eventually fade due to much stress that was put into the car and...we realized it at the last corner at the track which was a 2-3rd gear corner and it requires heavy braking as you're going flat out before that. We did went flat out, then when the braking part needs to be done, it didn't work =0. I was doing the limit of the Alfa could take so yeah we almost end up crashing or maybe totaled car. We survived though the ordeal and hurt our face muscles because we were screaming non stop at the track enjoying the sideways trip =).

All and all I had a great week, a good start where I left off from the eventful last week. All is well I guess.