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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Borneo King of Drag 2012 : The real deal (interesting parts only)

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Here we are in the morning fields of Lutong Airstrip in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.
This is actually day 2 and apparently the qualifying round did not manage to complete on day 1, so they are forced to complete their qualifying round on day 1 before they can proceed to the Top 8 (there are usually more than 16 cars competing for the top 8 spots). So I'll just advance to the Top 8 part.

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So here we go...

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... the white Lancer broke down in which upon the chief mechanic is summoned...


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...and then the car is carried back by a truck.

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This was an interesting race. A newer Gen Starlet paired up against an old. "Nothing beats old", they say.

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Apparently it did!

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Surprisingly, the retro Starlet had too much advantage between the gap. Wondered why?

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The white Starlet broke down into smokes. The engine was blown they said. You'd expect a firetruck to zoom pass at that moment right?

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Nope. A man decided to run for more than a quarter mile with a heavy fire extinguisher faster than any rescue unit.

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Then the firetruck came...

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...and was on it's way.

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Again, the poor old Starlet got towed away.

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Back to the action, the few matches that were my favorite in the road-legal V-tec category involves the Repsol Civic,

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and The Fatak Civic.

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Then comes the Diesel category.

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One of the dirtiest launch in my days of seeing drag racing.

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And boy do I really mean a lot of black smokes.

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But it's always fun and fresh to see something different once and a while.

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Then comes to the non-road legal V-tec category

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in which I admit that this category has one of the most raw and orgasmic sound I've heard in a while.

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This category also has many interesting cars line up

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Such as the no. D12 Civic,

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The Spoon Civic and

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the most mad, best, beastly and exciting

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shortened Accord. This car vaporized every other opponents out there.

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Here is the B class. Also known as the Big Boss class because of only R35 GT-Rs were in the lineup and most of them are rich bosses competing.

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Sadly many spectators complained that even though this category has badass GT-Rs but the driver skills could not simply match up.

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Except for this guys. The driver in the White GT-R.

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He won the category with no sweat.

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Look at him! He's looking at me, not worrying what's happening in front of him.

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And that even includes when his opponent is a few meters behind him. He just doesn't worry.

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Seriously, a big applause to him.

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This is class B. 2-wheel Turbo category.

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The first match had the most interesting car line up. Sadly, the RX-7 did not get the win.

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What's interesting is that there are

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Proton Wiras or the retro Lancers as you call it.

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Also, the monster Accord is back in action

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swallowing other cars on it's path.

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Finally an S model has made it's appearance.

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A dramatic race really.

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A beast Accord was in the finals

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and you can tell who won.

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As the sun was about to set, the icing of the cake was here. Category A. All Wheel Turbo class.

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Starting off with the two dangerous Lancer Evos. Sadly their qualifying time led them to have a duel at the start. Meaning they won't be seeing each other in the finals.

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So the Purple Lancer won.

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Here's an interesting match. Two Lancer engines in two different chasis model. A Lancer Sedan and a Proton Satria GTi with a Lancer head.

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Boy does the Satria look great! Unfortunately for him, the yellow Lancer took the win.

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Even the Tommy Kaira R35 made it's appearance BUT he gave the win to the Lancer for some reason. He didn't press the throttle pedal at all.

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The final match was between the Purple Lancer and the Civic. Unfortunately you cannot see anything in this picture because it was too dark. But rest assure, the Civic had a false start giving the Purple Lancer the instant win. The Lancer got lucky as the Civic driver I believe was a little to excited since he actually launch just one second before the green light had reached.

So that's it. A very satisfying experience. Went back home not only with a smile but with plenty of body tan (aka Sunburn) but boy WAS IT WORTH IT!

2 comments:

  1. DUDE, you should go take on Photo Journalism, and maybe someday you might work in Top Gear Malaysia!

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    1. Thanks for the compliments man haha! Maybe one day, :)

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