The tuning scene is never short on comparisons and here’s one comparing a 2005 WRC Mitsubishi Lancer against a Honda S2000 tuned by J’s Racing (the same guys that took top honours at the 2008 MME race). Keiji Tsuchiya is at the wheel of the S2000 but I can’t make out who’s at the wheel of the Lancer. Now I actually didn’t think that these cars could be compared at all, it took me by suprise. Turn up those speakers and get rid of that gf, just for a bit.

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As some Malaysians raced in the local MME and celebrated independence day this past weekend, rally fans over at the UK celebrated the life of one of the greatest rally drivers of all time, Colin McRae. Over 1,100 Subaru’s formed a 50km convoy over to ProDrive’s test track at Warwickshire UK, the following is the official press release and video from the record smashing convoy: Read more

Racing is not easy, never was, and never will be. Even as cars get faster and more efficient, the physical limitations of the drivers remains the same as they were years ago and that is why cars and races can only be developed till a certain extent.

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No one ever said MME was easy, in fact it is one of the most demanding and challenging form of racing there is, both physically and mentally. That’s why when you do go racing, you have to accept that anything and everything is possible, even an under-performing car can take you to the top 10 while a really fast and reliable car may struggle to complete the race. Read more

Honda Malaysia recently introduced a fully local Honda Malaysia Racing Team (HMRT) with 40 Malaysians and their locally-built Civic Type R race cars numbers 26 and 27 at a party in Kuala Lumpur.

With the motto “Our Challenging Spirit Continues”, the 40 HMRT members and 6 Malaysian drivers are all set to carry on Honda’s trademark “Challenging Spirit” onto the Sepang race tracks this weekend. Known for having the most professional and swift pit stop among all the other teams, HMRT’s aim this year is to capture the Overall Title, in addition to retaining their Class A Title for the 6th consecutive year. Read more

The Cartrade-ABT Motorsports team aims to achieve an overall top placing and a Class A win in the Merdeka Millennium Endurance 08 (MME08) race to be held at the Sepang International Circuit from 28 – 30 August. This is the first time that the Cartrade-ABT Motorsports team is participating in the MME race. Read more

James Russell is a young rally driver with plenty of potential. At only 20 years of age, he has had success in both go kart racing and single seaters. In 2003, with only one year of go kart racing experience, he became the Dunlop AMC Endurance Champion, even when he went up against some good and very experienced competition. He progressed to the world of track racing with the Formula Malaysia single seaters.

Doing two Formula One Support Races in the cars, he achieved best rookie on his first attempt and got himself on the podium by his second. Now that he is old enough, James is following his passion of rallying, and with two years under his belt has had several good results to boast about including two podiums finishes.

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Ross Jamison is the current 2008 Formula Formula BMW Pacific Championship Leader. He began collecting his string of titles at the tender age of 12 at the Hong Kong Karting Mall Grand Prix, beating his rivals by a mile.

He made the moved to participate in races in Malaysia under the City-Karting Star Driver Programme. By the end of this first year in 2003, he got to be the runner up tine Dunlop AMC Malaysian Championship, after James Russell. He was also the runner up in the Malaysian Junior Rotax Max Challenge, a champi Read more

Angeline’s foray into racing was somewhat of an accident.

After returning from completing her university studies in Australia, a friend invited her for a ‘catch up’ session, which ended up being at the palm oil plantations in the outskirts of Sepang, where the Malaysian Rally Championship was taking place. Besides just catching up, she became the water girl of the team they had come to ‘support’. The team went on to finish 2nd in that leg of the race, they had then good-naturedly joked that she was their ‘good luck charm’ and brought her to participate in a go-kart race at my-kart the following weekend. After a few round of adrenaline pumping and neck-to-neck speed action, Angeline became hooked. She became a member of my-kart and began competing in their monthly races whenever time permitted. Read more

We had tons of inquiries on who the drivers were for Team HPC-ZTH so much so that even at social gatherings, friends would come up and ask about who they were. It was as if it was all such a mystery but it was never meant to be that way, the drivers are really friendly and sociable as well as recognizable in the local motorsports scene. Read more