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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