Sepang Drag Battle

Sepang Drag Battle

Left Singapore in the afternoon of 8th May for Sepang.

Sepang Drag Battle commenced at around 2030hrs. Cars prepared themselves for a couple of practice runs.

Noise from the decatted straight pipe exhaust of countless Honda eg6 and Protons was extremely loud, and the sound was amplified probably due to the echo coming from the grandstand shelter.

We waited and waited for cars from our local tuners to strut their stuff. Spark Motorsport's Rex was one of the highlight of the battle. It sounded like it packed some serious horses under the hood. The huge turbo was located in the left headlight area for better cooling.

The driver waited for a good 6 seconds before he was flagged off. The high cams were working overtime, side planted exhaust produced countless back fire similar to a machine gun and all it wanted was for the signal to dump the clutch and propel forward.

Initial acceleration looked ok until we saw trails of oil on the drag strip. From then on, the Rex couldn't recover and it had to make a disappointing and painful journey back to the Paddock.

A few minutes later, we noticed two cars with LED strips. We knew that the Godzillas were here to play. As they lined up at the starting point, you can feel the tense atmosphere at the grandstand. Will the R35 live up to its name? Can the Supercar shake off the competition? No it cant. It looked sluggish during take off probably due its 1.8 tonne body. An old Suzuki Swift torque steered its way to victory, leaving the Godzilla to find a corner to hide.

We managed to salvage some local pride with ST Powered's yellow Evo 9. It's blistering pace was good for a sub 11 quarter mile drag. The best timing for an eg6 was around 11.5 seconds.

On the whole, it was an eye opener to see so many heavily modded cars in the Sepang F1 circuit.

I have to learn the art of shaving weight.