Our day started rather early, I was already at the workshop at 8am to help Hau load up the 2 time attack machines...
Using a very modern car carrier, the carrier lower the whole carriage on the ground and the car would easily just drive on the carriage. Very convenient for these very low cars :)
The trip to Sepang was uneventful, except for the build up of time attack machines prowling the streets... all heading for one destination... Sepang.
The excitement was building up... cars of all sorts were participating in the whole event, not only the time attack event, the gymkhana, the COTY, the track day and also the ridiculous Epic Stance >.<
Although the Epic Stance being ridiculous is subjective based on one own's perspective, my view of the whole stance notion still stands :P
Amazing cars showed up for the day :)
GTRs were abundant at Sepang o.O
Despite being priced almost 1/2 million Ringgit, they're everywhere... it probably rained GTR the other night :P
Even exotics one like this beautiful example.... fully carbon fibre clad, even the interior is pure carbon fibre goodie :P
The GTR doesnt look out of place being beside that Ferrari F430 :P
Even rare exotics like this very fast type-writing machine was present... the MP4-12C :P
And a very rare NSX type R, street legal and too beautiful to be abused at the track :P
For the time attack event itself, our mechanic Hau has entered 2 FD3S to compete. Both in different categories but with almost similar mods, producing around 360-380 whp :)
This beautiful orange FD competes in the Super Street Turbo Category. The only thing that makes it street legal is that it still has a plate number :P everything else is extreme track focus in every sense xD
And this white FD is Hau's personal demo track car... its competing in the Time Attack Machine Category. Considering it is competing in the Time Attack Machine Category... it is quite modestly modded for the category, so this car still have not seen its last evolution yet :P
Hau was not just supporting those 2 track machines, but also lending a helping hand to the Wing Hin TRD team that is competing their street legal FT86 in the Street RWD NA category :)
Hau giving a helping hand in installing the transponder on the FT86 :)
The FT86 engine are still stock, it only has a modded throttle body & exhaust. The main mods comes from their FT86 track car's suspension components which this street legal FT86 borrowed for the day :)
During the open track day event in the morning we were able to hitch a shotgun ride in the Orange FD3S with its driver warming up for the time attack... he was already clocking incredible time then... 2:35 sec was mighty impressive :)
But he was having some brake issue from the morning session, it seems the turbine got so hot that it literally cooked the brake fluid. With the master pump and reservoir being close to the turbine he could only register 3-5 laps before his brakes evaporated :P
Obviously some heat shielding would need to be install in the near future, other than that the car performed exceptionally well... although he did accidentally ran over the kerbs so violently that made his front wheel alignment somewhat toed out a little >.<
Next they went for the scrutineering and prepared for the time attack proper.
Contestant lining up to test the transponder prior to the start of the time attack
Sadly, our camera ran out of juice just as we hit afternoon and the time attack session :P
The plight of being poor >.<
We had no pictures or videos other than the morning session T.T
During the first session the orange FD3S clocked a best time of 2:31.... which was extremely fast o.O
But the time was only good enough for 2nd in the category...
The white FD3S with no ABS overcooked the first corner in its session and almost crashed before setting any lap time :P
Fortunately Ah Chong (the FD3S driver) was able to recover and set a modest lap time of 1:44s... which was amazingly at the time was good for 2nd in the category o.O
The floorpan of the FD became so hot that it literally burned Ah Chong's racing shoe... so even the track car has some serious heat management issue and will have to undergo some major heat shielding.... not only that, the BOV seems to be not working... which may cause some damage to the turbine as we found it spitting oil from the air intake filter o.O
But then as the 4th Group session was about to went underway the heavens opened up, which cause the NA categories cars to compete in the wet.
The Wing Hin TRD FT86 only managed a time of 3:01... which was amazing considering the conditions, and that time was also good for a 2nd place in category :P
So it seems we were in good shape, with all 3 cars in the podium... with the orange FD3S and the FT86 in position to strike at the top step :D
But as we prepare for the 2nd session, which we plan to sneak in as the white FD3S driver, the heavens opened up again, but this time it rained so heavily that the track had to be closed.
So they were no longer running according to the timetable, so me and Keisuke slipped away and tried to charged our pathetic camera with an in car charger...
While we were enjoying the radio and cool AC after the very hot day, and pouring rain outside... we missed the 2nd session!!! >.<
The most crucial 30 min of our day was missed with us enjoying Adele music in a Honda CITY!!! xD
When we came back they already went on track and came in just as the session finished xD
Sadly with the wet track, and us having no rain tires for the FD... Ah Chong could not better his time, as well as the orange FD and the FT86...
But the orange FD and FT86 posted a time in the 1st session that was competitive enough to secure them 2nd place in their category, but for Ah Chong... his time fell to being 4th, just outside the podium :(
In the evening, we packed up the cars in the rain and went back to the garage... with lessons learnt and new zeal to pursue in this rather addictive time attack event :D
I was somewhat bitten by the time attack bug as well, and as we chatted into the night with Hau and the others... we came up with the idea to revive the Old Lady.... prepping her for time attack duties, but since Hau already has a customer competing in the street turbo class... I'll try my luck in the NA category :)
But all those are still just wishful dream, since Trouble is still not complete... but hopefully next year I can truly join the time attack not as spectator... but as a contestant looking for that one magical lap :D
Below is the vid of half the day videos and pics T.T
The official report for the time attack event is here :
How come the vid you uploaded is incomplete? where's OUR 'time attack'? X-p
ReplyDeleteMust be something wrong with You tube.... let me just re-upload it
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