Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race 2011

[kurski]

MMER, is 12 Hours endurance racing even.
Entry List
Programme

[Japanese Samurai]

Off topic about PETRONAS Mercedes SLS GT3
The door of SLS is a gull wing.
If it overturned, driver cannot escape from the car.
Therefore, the car has the emergency exit switch.
If this switch is turned on, the door explode(!).
http://ameblo.jp/nob-taniguchi/entry-11019414555.html

[MitchZ06]

The door hinges blow off, not the whole door.

[Japanese Samurai]

Yes, door hinges.

Tatsuya Kataoka's on-board movie of qualifying lap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEAofOsetjI

[courageous]

is there anything in the way of online timing etc... for this?

[WMUCarGuy]

Is it just me or does the roll cage around the gullwing door section look a bit inadequate?

[kurski]

MMER 2011 GRID POSITIONS

1. Tatsuya Kataoka/Fariqe Hairuman/Bernd Schneider (Mercedes SLS) 6:16.346s
2. Nobuteru Taniguchi/Masataka Yanagida/Dominic Ang (Mercedes SLS) 6:17.231s
3. Frank Biela/Marcel Fassler/Marco Werner (Audi R8 ) 6:18.421s
4. Mok Weng Sun/Gianmaria Bruni/Matthew Griffin (Ferrari F458) 6:18.829s
5. Siu Yuk Lung/Keita Sawa/Dominik Schwager (Lamborghini LP560) 6:19.413
6. Darryl O’Young/Seiji Ara/Alex Yoong(Audi R8) 6:19.753s
7. Frank Yu/Alain Jacques Gilbert Li/Stefan Johansson (Ford GT3) 6:22.946s
8. Jeffrey Lee/Alexandre Imperatori/Aaron Lim (audi R8) 6:24.476s
9.Billy Fung/Christian Jones/Akihiro Asai (Lamboghini LP560) 6:24.662
10.Franz Engstler/Dominik Kraihamer/Andrei Romanov (BMW Z4) 6:31.997s

GT Class Top 3

1. Tatsuya Kataoka/Fariqe Hairuman/Bernd Schneider (Mercedes SLS) – PETRONAS Syntium Team
2. Nobuteru Taniguchi/Masataka Yanagida/Dominic Ang (Mercedes SLS) – PETRONAS Syntium Team
3. Frank Biela/Marcel Fassler/Marco Werner (Audi R8 ) – Belgian Audi Club

Touring Production Top 3

1. Eddie Lew/Patrick Tam/Keifli Othman (Honda DC5) – JC Racing
2. Wong Yew Choong/Soh Kee Koon / Lai Wee Sing (Honda Civic FD2 Mugen)-Type R Racing Team
3. Piti Bhirombhakdi/Butthikorn/Apathorn Karvasut (Honda FD2-R)-Singha Honda Total Team Thailand

Sports Production Top 3

1. Adrian D’ Silva/M.Fahrizal/Ian Ross Geekie (Aston Martin Vantage) – Nexus Racing Team
2. Denis Lian/Oh Siang Hui,Eugene/James Fancourt Mitchell (Lotus) – Aylezo motorsports
3. Masatama Kawaguchi/Masayuki Ueda/Norio Kubo(Honda S2000) – Tracy Sports

Pictures

[DS"]

I'm kinda surprised that such a remote race like that draws a decent number of well-known drivers from Europe, as well as works supported entries (Audi at least).

[courageous]

Just noticed that Creventic are involved in the promotion this year (looks like a low key last minute thing).

[pdreams]

Originally Posted by DS"

I'm kinda surprised that such a remote race like that draws a decent number of well-known drivers from Europe, as well as works supported entries (Audi at least).

Hi,

This race has been going on for years and has been attracting top drivers for a few years now. Although not a Nur 24 hrs kind of race its still decent enough for drivers to have a go. In fact, the works team such as Audi are not guaranteed wins, just shows that the level of competition is iron out once weather and local knowledge comes into play.

It is more surprising to read that an endurance race in Sepang (Which has been hosting F1, MotoGP, SuperGT races) can be considered as a remote race. The world revolves beyond Germany, or Europe for that matter if that is where you are from.

Cheers and enjoy racing.

[kurski]

Originally Posted by courageous

is there anything in the way of online timing etc... for this?

I do not know, but if so, hopefully, someone put a link?...

[peckadj]

According to twitter...

1. Nobuteru Taniguchi/Masataka Yanagida/Dominic Ang (Mercedes SLS) – PETRONAS Syntium
2. Team Frank Biela/Marcel Fassler/Marco Werner (Audi R8 ) – Belgian Audi Club
3. Tatsuya Kataoka/Fariqe Hairuman/Bernd Schneider (Mercedes SLS) – PETRONAS Syntium Team

[Juntos]

Full Results: http://www.malaysiangp.com.my/story/...1-race-results

Yeah, well, it's very fresh.

There are races beyond European borders and seems an unknown Asian team with an unknown line-up of local drivers just defeated the Spa 24-hour kings! Audi was pretty serious about that game tho.

[rich07]

Great to see Nob Taniguichi back in the winners circle again after his win in the BMW in SGT.

I wouldnt call him an unknown driver btw, I knew about him thru his drifting exploits before I realised he also did circuit racing

[Japanese Samurai]

NOB Taniguchi's race report
#28PETRONAS adopted the "hare" strategy. Push and push.
On the other hand, #15PETRONAS adopted the "tortoise" strategy. Save and save.
#28 led the race. However the machine trouble occurred in the last 2 stint.
Subsequently, #1,AUDI led the race. 2nd position is #15.
Although Yanagida(#15) pushed, he does not catch up with #1. About 35-second difference.
However, #1 punctured in remaining 20 minutes. Yanagida passed #1.
And #15 win.

[Joe Taylor]

I wouldn't exactly call Petronas Syntium Team unknown either. They used to run the Protons in BTCC and BMW Z4s in Japan didn't they?

[sequentialbox]

not forgetting Petronasteam was supported by Amg, and their line up is made of Japanese gt drivers and Bernd Schneider, hardly low profile

[Monkey Head]

Coming back from the event,it really nice.strong line up and the leader never lapped its nearest oppoents more than a lap.Suggest they using U Stream to boosting the popularity of the event.