Northern Touge Race Day - Ray's cam pt.II

Continuation due to some conflict with blogger's server yesterday, I couldn't upload any more pics... So here goes.

The early morning pics... The Silver Banana parked next to my sponsor Kiong's car.
A small part of the convoy heading towards Kg. Gajah. There was such a large group, we had to split into many smaller convoy just to accomodate the driving speeds. Yes! It was that huge!

The Penang convoy has arrived and queueing up for registration to get into the track.

The main event banner, much thanks to Camo3.
The Silver Banana parked next to Touge Monk's (Daniel's) Civic.

All the drivers were listening intently to my short safety briefing before going on track. (save for the yawning Hwa).

Initiation to the track was lead by Tommax's Wira SE as safety car for the first couple of laps.

Upon letting them loose... Rampage!

Super fast street legal White EK battling it out for a few laps with the Red/White track racer whilst VictorGR's FC follows suit.

Robert (Yellow "Terminatrix" Satria) was a fierce competitor. He shocked everyone with his lap time of 1min 08secs whilst only armed with a 1.3 carby Satria. Robert's shown here hunting down Loy's (of Norther Garage) Wira 1.8.

1.6 class 1st heat - Watch how the leading Kelisa's passenger side front tire is lifted, Tripod Mode! Excellent work dude. You lead them all the way!

1.6 class 2nd heat - All the cars gave it all they had. Most friends were surprised with Mark's (Green Satria) driving and ability to keep up with more veteran drivers. Reason was that he's never had track experience, never drove "enthusiastically" on the road, and only driven up the touge about twice in his life! Great job buddy :)

1.6 class finals - Daniel (Civic) was giving Lao San (white Vios) a lot of pressure but Lao San did not wane one bit. In eventuality, Daniel's over-enthused driving steered him into a collision course with Sunny's Kelisa whom pursued and finished a commendable third placing. Kudos bro Sunny!

Northern Touge Race Day - Mark's cam

All participants, friends, and family (believe me, there were even grandpas there!) met up bright and early at Fantasi Nasi Kandar and left for the Bukit Merah R&R where we would meet up with Dennis of TKA absorbers and some breakfast. There was a massive turn out this round, the entire R&R parking lot including the adjoining Petronas was full of our participants and spectators.

After a most interesting drive through the trunk roads leading to Kg. Gajah, we were finally there at the Northern Touge Race Day.

We arrived at a beautifully sunny and dry track with hot tarmac ready to get a rippin'!The turnout was surprisingly massive as you could see from the pic below.
Spectator turnout was approximately 200 persons! This is the first time I'd seen the grandstand overflowing at the Dato' Sagor Track!

After a heated battle between Lao San (white Vios) and Daniel (Civic) vying for pole position, Daniel's Civic had a mishap and lost foothold providing a window of opportunity for TK (silver Vios) and the green Kelisa (sorry I didn't get your name bro) to gain ground. After that, it was just between the two manual Vios' (yup, you heard right... Both are manuals) to battle it out for a 1-2 finish.

The 1.8 class was the event of the day with impressive driving that wowed the crowd whilst being eventful enough to leave jaws hanging! The crowd went wild whilst this category ran its race. Eventually, only the toughest of the tough remained and these two are made of the toughest stuff!

The open class saw a 1-2 finish from 0-4 Workshop with both their Civic track cars with Boy's Agip sponsored EG on their heels. Ketit's NA powered S15 was giving commendable chase whilst VictorGR was just having plain fun, laid back, drifting and wowing the crowd from behind.

The trophies, engine oil, cash prize and T-shirts to be given away in an awards presentation by our sponsors - Kiong of Kiong Lee Ent., Eric from Northern Garage, Chean from Chean Exhaust, and Tommy of Tommax Stickers and No. Plates.

The cups were a beaut! Much thanks to Emico for the fantastic work.

The day of course ended with a fantastic dinner at Tanjung Tualang - for the super big prawns. Everyone was starving, so food tasted as if heaven sent!

p.s. I've no idea what the fingers mean...

After heated battles and gruelling dogfights, every driver left, better bonded friends, with new experiences in their pocket and most importantly, with a wide smile to their weary faces.This was definitely an event not to be missed.

See you fellas next round! (Oh yeah! Believe you me!)