Drift Drift

Another car story from me, Formula Drift Malaysia 2010!!!

I went to check out this competition with my friends today and I have to say it was awesome!!! The tickets was quite expensive, RM 34 for 2 days, Saturday and Sunday. Today was just the first day where they did a few practice rounds early in the day and then after three o'clock, the preliminary round began.

The big screen. Bumper cabut. haha

What happened was, 40 plus racers from different countries had two chances each to go around the track and earn as much points as possible. Then the top 32 drivers will race on the second day; the others, bye bye. Points are given based on 3 criteria:

1. Line (how close the cars are to the border of the track)
2. Angle (the more 90 degrees you are to the track the better)
3. Speed (the faster the better)

The drifts were so cool especially when the cars go really really fast (more than 100 km/h when they enter the drift) and when they were really really close to the wall. It was really damn cun!!! The sound of the really loud engines, the popping and flaming exhaust plus the smell of burnt rubber and white smoke coming from the tires was very very satisfying. Not forgetting the skills.

Nicely lepas the 'lolipop' shaped part of the track.

Tak lepas... But got smoke. Damn.

Smoke still there...

But I also saw some accidents. Nothing serious but it happened right in front of my eyes. Just two or three meters in front of me.

Belakang hancur...

Kena tarik.

There was a nineteen year old guy from Indonesia who joined the race with a car he just bought yesterday. How daring is that? But during his first run, he went all out, accelerating so fast that he crashed. Luckily his car was still ok so in his second run he managed to get a decent score despite his lack of experience with drifting and with the car. Really respect the fella lah.

If there's models in motorshows, then there's pit girls in drift racing. But too bad today not much, only myeg girls and Goodyear tire girls. Surprisingly Myeg got these girls, I didn't know our government approved mini skirts. Haha. I think tomorrow there will be more pit girls for the final round. Hot hot...

Myeg girls, seducing you to pay your road tax

One of the cars on exhibition. Like candy. haha

I might be going for the next round, heard there's gonna be a different racing format. Fast cars, can't wait.