2009 Goodyear Formula Drift Malaysia – Qualifying Results and Pics
December 20, 2009
The inaugural Goodyear Formula Drift Malaysia went off to a great start. Though it was overcast the whole day and the heavens really did let rip later on, spectators and supporters turned out in full force, all couple of thousands of them. The first day was just practise and qualifying but even that had the crowd on its feet.
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The practise round for the drifters was an opportunity to get accustomed to the concrete outer wall that runs by the judges stand and all throughout the course. As mentioned before, drifters get more points the closer they get to the wall and this is known as “riding-the-wall”. Among the 50 over international and local drifters, it was Mad Mike and his four-rotor Mazda RX-7 FD that got closest to the wall, but it was Tengku Djan who was the smoothest, fastest and bravest among them all.
I’m speculating that the finals will be a repeat of what happened in Thailand but maybe not quite so as well. In the qualifying stage, Djan took top spot with Ryuji Miki taking third and Malaysian drifter Hanizam taking the second spot, Mike however only managed 19th spot when he spun out on his first round of qualifying. Well I’m about to head back to MAEPS and cover day two but meanwhile here’s all the pictures from day one as well as the qualifying results.
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Car # |
Driver |
Score |
Rank |
Country |
| 12 | Tengku Djan | 88.7 | 1 | Malaysia |
| 72 | Hanizam | 81.2 | 2 | Malaysia |
| 26 | Ryuji Miki | 78.2 | 3 | Japan |
| 18 | Ariff | 77.4 | 4 | Malaysia |
| 34 | Ser Ming Hui | 76.6 | 5 | Malaysia |
| 59 | Ivan Lau | 72.7 | 6 | Malaysia |
| 5 | Tan Tat Wei | 69.8 | 7 | Malaysia |
| 46 | Nazrul | 68.8 | 8 | Malaysia |
| 84 | Lim Joe Han | 67.3 | 9 | Malaysia |
| 9 | Rifat | 67.2 | 10 | Indonesia |
| 93 | Faireen | 65.9 | 11 | Malaysia |
| 74 | Chaiyos | 65.8 | 12 | Thailand |
| 80 | Ian | 65.4 | 13 | Hong Kong |
| 25 | Chanpol | 65.3 | 14 | Thailand |
| 55 | Kulachart | 64.3 | 15 | Thailand |
| 33 | Yong | 64.1 | 16 | Malaysia |
| 82 | Hoong | 63.8 | 17 | Malaysia |
| 39 | Nattapol | 63.3 | 18 | Thailand |
| 11 | Mad Mike | 62.1 | 19 | New Zealand |
| 28 | Mervyn | 61.6 | 20 | Malaysia |
| 66 | Davide | 61.5 | 21 | Thailand |
| 10 | Ivan Lim | 61.3 | 22 | Singapore |
| 44 | Kiki | 60.5 | 23 | Thailand |
| 85 | Heng | 60.1 | 24 | Malaysia |
| 77 | Auttapon | 58.5 | 25 | Thailand |
| 38 | Raymond | 58.5 | 26 | China |
| 17 | Kevin | 58.5 | 27 | Malaysia |
| 22 | David | 58.2 | 28 | Philippines |
| 13 | Rhenadi | 56 | 29 | Indonesia |
| 75 | Narubet | 53.1 | 30 | Thailand |
| 24 | Nittipat | 52.7 | 31 | Thailand |
| 2 | Zee | 52.2 | 32 | Malaysia |
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Aiyah. I’m so jealous, u guys got some great angles. I only had from the grandstand.
Anyways, I will upload my pics soon, please check them out at here for now:
http://azmir1.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodyear-formula-drift-teaser.html
sighh..venue near in my house but i miss it this year..argghh
finally…seeing a rally icon, Rifat Sungkar in the R3 RWD Waja…
its awesome seeing rifat eventhough i wish it was djan instead!!….anyway good luck t.djan!!!
Guys, as promised, I’ve uploaded more pics. Check em out here:
http://azmir1.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodyear-formula-drift-day-1-paddock.html
Thanks!!!
Azmir ….
No reason to be jealous.. This is not a competition.. I think you got some great shots .. It’s not the angle that matters but how you make the most of what you have .. Cheers bro.. Appreciate your patronage..
nice pictures! sad cant watch…
Wanna ask that I tawt waja is fwd, can drift like rwd?
that waja is a special waja made by r3 for d.jan to promote proton in drifting…. the body is still waja but the powerplant is sr20… its good for promoting proton but not balance for drifting… that y d.jan went for ae86 and now sil-180
Keshy…i know it’s not a competition, but I wish I had access to other areas. That would have diversified the pictures I took. Anyways, I’ve posted more pics of the qualifying round here:
http://azmir1.blogspot.com/2009/12/goodyear-formula-drift-day-1.html
I will post more on the finals soon.
Thanks!!!