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Lotus Cars will be having an exhibition at The Gardens Mid Valley from the 1st - 5th July, 2009. Expected to be on display will be the Lotus 2-Eleven, Elise, Exige and possibly the Evora!
Pic courtesy of Empire Motorsports.
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06 June 2009, By SIC
Flagged off by Dato’ Azman Yahya president of Motorsport Association Of Malaysia, the Sepang 1000km (S1K) race went off with 56 cars on the grid. Car 16 of Team Tung Chun Racing from Class 2 failed to reach the rolling start when it stalled right after rolling off from the starting grid.
The incident promoted car number 36 of team HPC Kegani to second spot and along with Team Type R Racing 21 dominated the first race 20 laps of the race which was completed 54:19.771.
Team R3 Proton Satria Neo competition number 12 stalled before turn of lap 15 almost a repeat of their last year’s attempt in Millennium Merdeka Endurance (MME) race.
The Sepang 1000km race is a spinoff from the successful MME race designed for particularly the teams in Class B and C of MME.
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06 June 2009, By SIC
With an average time of 2:40.608, Class 1 Type R Racing team in the car number 21 will be starting the Sepang 1000km (S1K ) race at the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) in pole position in.
According to KK Tek, between the three drivers, KK Soh, YC Wong and himself, there’s an accumulated eight years of experience in entering the Merdeka Millennium Endurance (MME) race that’s helping them to get the pole potition.
“We are confident that we can keep ahead the rest of the teams in the race from what we have experienced in the past,” said Tek.
“We sorted the car’s suspension to suit the tyres very early so we had more time to concentrate on winning the race instead of solving nagging problems.
He added they are not slowing down from their qualifying lap times and going to maintain an average time of 2:40 throughout the race.
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Spurred by their victorious collaboration at Sepang 12-hour Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race (MME) last year, Team Proton R3 and X1-R are joining forces again - this time at the inaugural Sepang 1000km in June which the team aimed to top Class 2. “We can confirmed that we are putting two entries - a Proton Neo R3 and a Proton Gen2 R3. We still finalizing the drivers’ list; but for sure, they would be led by Malaysia’s top saloon car driver and Proton R3 test driver Faidzil Alang,” said team coordinator Najmi Razak. Winner of the MME overall title in 2008 in a Proton R3 Lotus Exige 300RR with Tengku Djan Ley and Damien French of Australia, Faidzil won Class B last year in a Proton Neo R3; partnering former Proton Production Car Championship winner Mohd Hafizy Hafiz and Shafique Ali.
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Ipoh, Perak – March 1st 2009, – Provice Events, producer of the automotive lifestyle festival series of the Malaysia, has announced its 6-months, 4-city tour schedule starting from June 2009.
Full Throttle will be held in familiar territories like Ipoh & Melaka, in addition to first-ever motorsport fiesta of its kind in East Coast at Kuantan, Pahang. Like in 2008, Full Throttle will get the audiences to experience the fast-paced drift actions and best of autoshow vehicles on display LIVE. ‘’Coming to Location Near You” – That will be the slogan for Full throttle 2009.
Full Throttle 2008 has been hosted in 4 different locations, and received over 30,000 in total visitors as well as numerous brands in its exhibition. With effective marketing campaign is planned, with a series of road tours, media advertisement as well as interactive Internet marketing, Full Throttle is able to attract niche group of potential consumers - significant to the latest trend in automotive and lifestyle era. Besides developing a healthy autoshow culture, Full Throttle also offer alternatives for organizations to promote their product and services.
As Full Throttle aims on fast-paced motorshow, this year will be more exciting with more cars, angels, gadgets, LIVE drift actions and numerous brand displays – all these are meant to bring motorshow to a whole new level. There will be a dramatic advancement in the events besides the cars, such as adding more angels and talent value. Not too much of entertainment, but more of edutainment to insist the best in class consistently associated with Full Throttle brand.
“Despite the economy crisis that hits us, we still believe our presence is significant to existing automotive industry – that need alternatives in brand building their products and services in much affordable yet effective way”, said Rion Chong, Project Manager for Full Throttle 2009. “It is a complete tour that covers North, South, East and West coasts of Malaysia. This year we are going to take what makes Full Throttle great because longtime fans and newcomers will be satisfied.”
FULL THROTTLE 2009: EVENT SCHEDULE
Kuantan
Stadium Darul Makmur
11-12 July 2009
Ipoh
Stadium Indra Mulia
15-16 August 2009
Melaka
MITC Parking
10-11 October 2009
Kuala Lumpur
Kompleks Sukan Bukit Jalil
14-15 November 2009
For more info:
MR. C.H. LAI (ANDRE)
+6 017 369 9438
info@fullthrottleautoshow.com
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