MELVIN MOH took the Plus Yamaha SL Cup Round 2 limelight as he crusied to a double win in the Senior category at the Speedway Plus Circuit today.
The win comes as a delight for the Malaysian who last stepped on the podium in a kart race during the Formula KBS race at the same circuit in August last year. “I had a positive approach to this weekend and kept the momentum going till Race 2. I would to thank the crew and my team mates,” said the RL Karting driver.
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The KRS Motorsports racing team made their way to Surabaya, Indonesia for the 2nd round of the Rotax Asia Zone Challenge. KRS driver Afiq Ikhwan took 2nd in the Senior Max pre-final and went one better in the final to take a commanding victory ahead of Japanese driver Sena Fujita.
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Once again Sena Fujita’s group has been snapping away at the Rotax Asia Challenge. This time the venue was Surabaya for the 2nd round of the Rotax Asia Challenge. View the pictures here.
Interestingly also on tge Eikoms site it looks like Andrew Tang has been racing Rotax Max in Suzuka, Japan. Part 1, Part 2.
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Round 1 of the Rotax Euro Challenge for 2010 returned to the popular “drivers’” circuit of Sologne Karting, Salbris, France last weekend where the weather played a very significant role in the results, but failed to affect the spirit of the highly competitive racing.
At almost 1.5km in length, the rather technical track that’s been a selected venue for the series on a handful of occasions now played host once again for 180 competitors coming from five continents of the globe including several new nations being represented in 31.
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Lotus Racing Formula 1 drivers Heikki Kovalainen, Jarno Trulli, and Fairuz Fauzy were at the Speedway PLUS Karting Circuit today. Some of Malaysia’s young karters were at the track to meet the drivers and ask questions about the Lotus Racing drivers’ road to F1. Kovalainen, Fauzy, and AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes all took to the track in karts for a bit of fun.
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Rahul Raj Mayer took on the Senior category at the opening round of the PLUS Yamaha SL Cup Malaysia series held at the Sepang Karting Circuit last weekend. Following his win in the Junior category at the Rotax Max Malaysia Challenge held a few weeks earlier at the same track Rahul took 1st place at the Yamaha event as well. James Pull was the only double-race winner taking 1st in cadets, while Daniel Woodroof converted a 4th place in race 1 to a win in race 2 for the overall win.
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Australian driver Mitchell Gilbert (Energy/TM/Vega) took a podium finish after a great performance in the wet at the 21st Andrea Margutti Trophy held at the Parma Karting Circuit last weekend.
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The first pictures from the Rotax Malaysia & Asia Challenge are in. Peter Lim’s photos are available for viewing and purchase in this gallery on photodesk.com.my.
A nice selection of photos have been uploaded by Anas Zakaria here.
There is now more on RaceRevo.com by Nazim Idris. Check out the photo-report here.
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Muhammad Hasif took the win in the Formula 125 Open category after early race leader Terrence Chap experienced an engine failure just 2 laps into the race.
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