Type R Racing Team Takes Pole Position In The Inaugural S1K Race

With an average time of 2:40.608, Class 1 Type R Racing team in the car number 21 will be starting the Sepang 1000km (S1K ) race at the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) in pole position in.

According to KK Tek, between the three drivers, KK Soh, YC Wong and himself, there’s an accumulated  eight years of experience in entering the Merdeka Millennium Endurance (MME) race that’s helping them to get the pole potition.

“We are confident that we can keep ahead the rest of the teams in the race from what we have experienced in the past,” said Tek.

“We sorted the car’s suspension to suit the tyres very early so we had more time to concentrate on winning the race instead of solving nagging problems.

He added they are not slowing down from their qualifying lap times and going  to maintain an average time of 2:40 throughout the race.

Starting second on the grid is car number 16 of Tun Chun Racing team in Class 2. Driver Rhommell S. and Ian Lee is not strangers to racing with both having racing in the past.

But being the only two driver team means it’s going to be a bigger challenge physically for them to complete the 182 lap race.

“Yes we basically knew it’s not going to be easy but we thought since we love racing then let’s just go with it and have fun,” explained Lee.

On second row, third place is Class 2 team HPC Kegani 36. “We were hoping to start in second place so this means restrategising our starting procedure,” explained Kenny Lee.

“Earlier in the day we had some cooling issues which was never there before in previous races that we had entered with the car, it might be the hotter weather these days so  we installed a bigger oil cooler and hopefully that will solve it.

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Previously we were having some tyre problem as in rapid tyre wear but we found out that it was due to our settings.

Once we have dialed in the right suspension set up we managed to get quite good number of laps with the Archilles 123 tyres without sacrificing speed.”

In the support race, the Aston Martin Asia Cup, driver Dilantha Malagamuwa of car number 6 Dilango Racing kept his lead from pole potition till the end of the race.

Tungku HammmamIn in car number 51 started 4th on the starting grid and managed to finished second while in third place car number 69 of Melvin Choo.

Entrance to watch the race is free for race fans, the action starts as early as 9.45am on Saturday morning with the Supercars and Supersaloon race followed by Aston Martin race and finally rolling off with the S1K race at noon.   

0900 hrs – 0945 hrs Supercars/Supersaloon Race 2 (15 laps)

2100 hrs            Prize Presentation

In the meantime, these are some shoots taken at the paddock just before the race start.

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