0 Formula Drift Malaysia

Well, I'm not a drift fans. I only got to know about drifting when I watched Initial D when I was young. Yea, that's Akina!

One lazy afternoon, Daniel asked me to answer a short question in twitter and I've won a pair of tickets to watch the 2010 Goodyear Formula Drift Malaysia.



I've gotten the chance to witness the final round of the Formula Drift Asia series for 2010 which was held on 19 December at Dataran Merdeka. Drifters from ASEAN, Japan,China, Hong Kong and New Zealand were competing for the champion on Sunday. That's when I knew Tengku Djan, Ming Hui, Ryuji Miki, Kokae, Saito and etc.

There are N super nice cars at Dataran Merdeka

My dream car - rainbow BMW

Super cool police car



It was darn crowded that day. There are many hamsup professional photographers around busy taking the sexy photos of those umbrella GT girls.

When I walked about the drifting track, Malaysian driver Meng Hui was competing with his competitors, Rifat. The sad thing was when everyone was cheering loudly for him, his car hit the kerb at the U-turn. Therefore, his car suffered some serious suspension-arm damage. The damage is too serious until he has to abort. Malaysians' hopes are turned into bubble when Rifat went through.

This is the picture before Ser Meng Hui a.k.a. Ah Fai's car hit the 'benteng'. Frankly, he is super cool even he did not go through!

My favourite part of the drifting was the competition for the champion between Kokae (Thailand) and Saito (Japan). Kokae leaded in the first run but sadly he lost drift at the second run. He tried to reinitiate a drift to chase Saito but instead he spins out. The spinning caused super thick smoke. X( So at the end, Saito won the final!

Kokae's car (taken from paultan.org)

The experience of watching real drifting instead of Dytona is fascinating. It made you feel like learning drifting ("pui-yi") . It's not just purely "lailai shou jai"! A professional drifters must practise hard to make a beautiful and perfect drift. The scene was magnificent when both cars were aligned perfectly when the drifters were performing the drift.


This year, Djan made the Malaysian crowd proud by taking the overall championship. YEA, MALAYSIA BOLEH DRIFT! I believe there will be more Mat Rempits/illegal drifters on the way.

The winners and the GT beauties

our beloved 'entao' Tengku Djan

**photo credited to http://www.zerotohundred.com