The sun has set and it is now the most critical part of the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race. Already we have seen a number of retirements with the latest being the Toyota Altezza of Wing Hing racing that went up in smoke like a number of other competing cars. Currently about 35 cars are still in the race out of a total of 43 cars. Leading in Class O is still the two BMW Z4s of the Petronas Syntium racing team.
The duo are still posting great time with the leading car (#15) posting a time of 2.13:644 and the second car (#28) posting a slightly faster time of 2.13:560. Both cars have completed a total of 224 laps each. Hopes are still there for them to make it to the podium and fingers are crossed so that history doesn’t repeat itself with the Petronas team. In third place is the Porsche 911 of Team Porsche Club Singapore Racing with a time of 2.08:239 and a total of 216 laps completed.
In Class A1, Alex Yong and co of Fugazi Racing are still leading the pack in their Radical SR8 with a very impressive time of 2.11:151 and a total of 213 laps completed. In second place is still the Hong Kong based racing team and they are posting a time of 2.22:901 in their Aston Martin N24. They have completed a total of 205 laps. In third place is the drift king and the Honda S2000 of J’s Racing with a total of 204 laps and in their last lap they posted a time of 2.27:263. The standing’s in Class A1 and Class O have not changed since the start of the race.
Leading Class A2 is still the Civic Type-R of Honda Malaysia Racing Team with a time of 2.27:242 and a total of 208 laps completed. Hot on their heels in second position is still the Honda Integra DC-5 of Type R Garage Racing Team with their last lap time of 2.27:947 and a total of 206 laps. In P3 is still the Honda Integra DC5 of G-1 JPM Racing with 204 laps completed and in their last lap they clocked a time of 2.26:504.
Class A2 is stacking up to be a very closely fought battle with only hundreds of a second separating the top three contenders. However, in all classes no drastic change has taken place with the line-up literally unchanged since the start of the race. We have another three hours of racing left and we will continue to bring you the latest updates. The car’s that have retired include the Porsche GT3 of Kencana Racing, the Toyota Altezza of Wing Hin racing, Honda Integra of Tung Chun Racing Team, Lotus 2-11 of Empire Motorsports, another Honda Integra DC5 of JC Racing, a Marcos LM600 of a Malaysian based racing team and a Porsche 996 RSR of Australian based Danville Motorsports.
