December 1, 2008
3:20
That’s how long it took for me to complete one lap at Sepang International F1 Circuit during yesterday’s track day (High Performance Challenge). 3.20 is not fast, if i compared with a the same car tuned by Proton race engineers, R3 and driven by their best driver who clocked 2.58 !!!
There are lots of room for improvements, most of it is me. Driving without supervision sets my average time at 3.32 and with an instructor got me from 3.26 to 3.20 in just correcting my racing line in turn 3-4-5 which is the easiest, high speed bends on the track. We could’ve gone for more laps, but it just wasn’t our day when another incident triggered the red flag. The last two sessions were interrupted by at least 10 minutes. i’m not sure what caused the first red flag in group2 session 2, but i did see a smoking car after turn 2 during group2 session 3.
During the flag off during the first session, I’ve noticed my rear left tire was under inflated at 12psi (cold). Since i was minutes form flagging off i just carried on with the open track instead of driving out to the nearest petrol station 1km away and setting the right tire pressure. And my last camber adjustment was a year ago, on normal street settings (-0.3 front -0.5 rear) I know i was suppose to get these done a day before the event, i got lazy.
Furthermore, I was running with full bulk in the trunk, spare tires, clutch lock, collapsible stool, and an umbrella. I had at least 5kg of drinking water, socket/wrench tools magazine, another umbrella removed prior the race.
My sweetheart was with me during the entire event. Thanks for being there for me 
Anyways, enough talk, here’s the pictures
rolling out from the pits (taken by Jennihsurf)
me with my instructor, kee (in full face helmet) (taken by Jennihsurf)
December 1st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Bro, this is the reason why people like us have a crew - I drive the Ranger while Dan drives his Mango. Then Jia Yu (Dan’s bro) and a few other friends from KL will join us as supporting staff. So we get to set everything there and then. Plus an extra container of petrol just incase Dan runs out - it happened last week when he was testing the car around the neighborhood industrial area and his fuel gauge is not working so he didn’t know he was running on empty until it was too late. Anyway, we plan to get a generator soon with a decent air compressor. Hopefully by next year we get to go down to Sepang. In the mean time, we’re still using Kg. Gajah as our playground!
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 am
well, until i have the budget and a team of people psycho enough to be my pit crew, i’m driving alone