GAB Racing Speedfest.my Track Day & Time Attack Challenge

Held on the 3rd of March 2013 at PLUS SPEEDWAY CIRCUIT, GAB Racing Speedfest.my Time Attack Challenge is an event specifically targeted at those who wants to know what grassroot Motorsports is all about.

We all know not many can afford the expensive fees of the Sepang Track and thus Speedfest.my take this chance to bring motorsports more accessible to the masses.

In order to achieve this Speedfest.my, together with their sponsors, RSONE AUTO PARTS SDN BHD, RADICAL CHASSIS SOLUTIONS SDN BHD and MADDRIVERS GARAGE arranged a Time Attack Challenge event for those who are keen to explore or get to know more about grassroot motorsports.

Speedfest.my inagural event saw a total of 44 cars participating. We have cars ranging from the usual suspects of Satria and Satria Neo, Swift Sports, Myvi, Civic EF, Nissan S15, Toyota MRS, Mazda MX5, Honda S2000, BMW E36, Wiras, normal family sedan like the Kia Forte, Proton Inspira and Toyota Altis and heck even a bone stock Perodua Kancil 850cc manual.

The 44 cars are divided into different classes from A (Below 1600cc manual), B (Below 1600cc Auto), C (Above 1600cc manual), D (Above 1600 cc auto) and E (Track / Non-production cars).

The day started off with an introductory to the course where all cars will lined up and then lead onto the track to get a feel on how the track is like. This is a course where having a million horsepower is useless and this is a very tight and technical course where driving skills and precision is the order of the day.

Basically this is how the layout of the track looks like.

A chicane is placed on the downhill section to slow things down and also to prevent untoward incidents.

The format of the event is that each cars and participant will have their timing taken from the moment they start until they cross the finish line.

The participant with the fastest time in their respective category will be the winner.

At the end of the day after all the tyres screeching and engine noises has died down, its time to announce the winner.

For Category A, which is for Manual Transmission Car below 1600 cc, the winners are as follows:

1 - Mohd Azman - Proton Satria 1.3 - 0.5890

2 - Tommy Ho - Proton Satria Neo CPS 1.6 - 0.5953

3 - Ridhuan Ramlee - Proton Satria Neo 1.6 - 1.0125

For Category B, which is for Automatic Transmission Car below 1600 cc, the winners are as follows:

1 - Syed Dzulkarnain - Proton Saga - 1.0441

2 - Ong Jun Hui - Proton Wira 1.5 - 1.0800

3 - Wan Norhafizan - Proton Saga FLX 1.6 - 1.0872

For Category C, which is for vehicle with Manual Transmission above 1601 cc, the honors are as follows:

1 - Mitch Chong - Proton Satria 1.8 - 0.5782

2 - Mickey Teoh - Toyota MRS 1.8 - 0.5900

3 - Yong Kok Kit - Proton Satria 1.8 - 0.5934

For Category D, which is basically for vehicle with Automatic Transmission above 1601 cc, the results is as below:

1 - Nicholas Leong - Toyota Corolla Altis 1.8 - 1.0365

2 - Ng Khang Chun - VW Jetta 1.4 TSI - 1.0428

3 - Kamahlaan - Kia Forte 2.0 - 1.0609

For category E which is the category for Track / Non-production cars, the honors are:

1 - Rod Anders - Open Buggy - 1.0001

2 - Hafiz Isa - Proton Satria GTi 1.8 - 1.0200

3 - Matthew Salleh - Open Buggy - 1.0384

All in all, everyone had fun testing their vehicle and at the same time gain valuable insight into their respective rides and also an eye opening experience on what grassroot motorsports is all about.

Not forgetting too the ideas exchanged, new friendship are forged, existing friendship strengthened, all this in the spirit of motorsports.

Congratulations to the winners and also to all the participants in this event.

I am sure everyone look forward for more event like these in the future.

Just a note to the organizers tho, can we have a more structured run instead of having every single participant lined up waiting for their turns?

Finally keep the racing off the streets and make our roads a safer place to be.

Opinion: "Performance" Oil Filters - Works Engineering

Before any hardcore supporters of the brand goes amok on me, please take note that this is only my personal opinion.
If you don't like, don't read la. Easy right?
t(-.-)t

This is to share my opinion on "performance" oil filters.

Now before I go further, the product that is the center of my opinion today would be non other then Works Engineering High Performance Oil Booster Filter.
Yeah serious. That is the complete name.

If you are to ask me if oil filters increase HP, I would have bitch slap you on the spot. Serious.

How is it that an oil filter is able to increase the power of your engine? 

Do they even know what they are doing?

First a failed camshaft. Story here.

Now this?

For those that are not in the know, basically how engine works is like this. 

When you do an oil change, you basically release back the lost engine power that is lost and this will make you feel as though as your engine is making more power. 

In ACTUAL fact, you are just gaining back all your lost power since the last oil change.

How?

As your engine oils gets dirtier (from giving protection to your engine parts, DUH!), you lose efficiency and thus in the process, losses a couple or so HP/Torque. That is why you hear people complaining about engine being sluggish and such but once an oil change is done, the engine felt better and more responsive.

This is an on-going process.

Simple car maintenance 101. It will not get any simpler then that.

Now lets relate to the mentioned product. 

Notice how it say that you need to do the following:

"However, to maintain optimum low pressure loss properties, it is recommended to change the filter every 3000 km when an oil change is performed."

Basically what it say is to recommend a user to do an oil change every 3000 km in order to feel the filter effect.

Isn't this bullshit plain and simple?

A regular oil change interval is 5000 km and to use this filter, you do it at every 3000 km instead?

Shorter interval means fresher engine oil means more responsive engine means u have less power loss means you feel you have more power when in fact you are actually minimizing the power loss due to dirty engine oil.

Please do some thinking here.

1 + 1 = ?

So now to claim that an over-priced oil filter is able to add HP, in my opinion, would be a plain con job.

Not sure about you but I am surely not falling for this con.