VW Jetta MK6 in Sepang International Circuit

I never felt so much at home then in the tracks of Sepang International Circuit.

After finding out how the car would feel during a recent event here, I've finally gotten the chance to test out the "Altis" on the famous tarmac of Sepang International Circuit. Not once but twice actually.

The first time the "Altis" entered Sepang, I did not do any adjustment whatsoever to the car like tyre pressure and such and the car is entered as it is, in its very condition it arrived.

After spending a good 70% of the session learning the car, I then go into "time attack" mode for the final quarter of the session.
Managed 3:05 with the car in moderate to slightly heavy traffic condition.

Not much comment on the time as I need a reference time to base on for future track reference.

It was a good session as I get valuable personal data on how the car behaves and what improvements need to be done.

A couple of months later, I have another opportunity to run the Jetta in the track again and this time, the only "tuning" I did was to check the before and after reading of the tyres and the pressure is adjusted accordingly before each run.

Same thing follows, the first 70% of the session is spent getting the readings and correcting it accordingly. The final 30% is spend on "time attack" mode.

Frankly I can feel the improvement just on playing with the tyre pressure alone. I got more traction and the car ESP kicks in much later allowing me more throttle time.

This time I managed to bring the car below 3 mins to 2:59.47.

This particular session also did confirmed what exactly needed to be done.

A group pic after the second session.

Although the timing is not based on Sepang transponder, but I have the chance to do a cross-checked as the Lancer above is running on a transponder and I have the opportunity to cross check the app reading with the transponder reading.

The difference is only 2 hundredth of a second.

Now bring on the 2:50 barrier for this car.