Our boss, William Chong had participated K-cars 8 hours endurance race which held at Takasu circuit in Fukui prefecture on 15th September. He joined “XADO DIXCEL 弘友wks” which team is owned by Mr. Kanto (MCS driver).
MALAYSIA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (MCS) Round 3 was held on 9-11 August 2024.
#289 (Riyoz Racing) and #13 (RWORKS) got the 3rd place in the SP2V & SP1 category.
#389 (Suzuki Swift Riyoz Racing) participate in SP2V from this round with 30kg weight penalty.
Riyoz Racing newly welcomed a driver Hidenori Miwa from Japan. He teamed up with our mentor Takashi Oi as known as professional driver, motor journalist, and Sports Driving Labo on Youtube Channel.
Unfortunatly, due to the weather condition, all categories of race 2 were stopped with red flag. The results were carried over from the race1, added on half of the series points.
Reporting about 24 Hours Nürburgring, held on 1-2nd June 2024. Our boss, William Chong also participated in it with Japanese Drivers, Mr. Ito and Mr. Mitsuhashi, which was the same member as the qualifying in April.
Nürburgring is one of the fascinating circuit in the world, on the other hand it’s as known as ”Green Hell”.
The 24 hours endurance race take place in the Nordschleife (mountain side) and GP track, their total lengths are about 25km per lap.
A long Nordschleife “North loop” track has about 20.8km, the Grand Prix race track has about 5.1km.
It’s said that Nordschleife consists more than 170 corners with the narrow width, more than 300 meters of elevation change from its lowest to highest points.
That’s the reason, it’s called as ”Green Hell” by the drivers.
Mean while, It’s known as the place for the car manufacturers to test their cars because of this challenging course structure.
The course layout of 24 Hours Nürburgring, Nordschleife & GP Track.So many audience, it’s about Two hundred forty thousand people…. 観客は24万人だとか。いたるところでお祭り騒ぎ‼Grid Walk
The race started at 4pm, the weather was rainy. This unpredictable weather caused a lot of serious accidents in the beginning of the race.
This car was on fire during the middle of the race, but luckily they had a time to fix it and come back on the track…この車はレース中に燃えていたんだけど、赤旗のおかげで見事修理、復活!He was on the grid for almost 3 hours… It was very cold…. 3時間グリッドで待機。寒いのに‼5 laps code 60 with safety car…It must be tough duty for the drivers… 60k/hセーフティーカー付きで5周=125㎞走行。 体力も精神力も消耗しちゃう。The race finished! Beer time!5 litter of beer was provided to each team.
Continuation from last round, it was aggressive and tough race….
race1
Got hit by another car…Not easy to open the door because of heavy damage.P8
race 2
RWORKS: #111- SP2G
Drivers: Shinsuke Umeda & Kousei Kanto
Race 1: P18 Race 2: P25
race 1
race 2
RWORKS: #13 & #55 -SP1
#13 Driver: Kousei Kanto
Race 1: DNF Race 2: P3
#55 Driver: Ken Urata
Race 1: P5 Race 2: P5
race 1
race 2
4 of our cars were damaged by incident during the Race1 and got serious damaged. But our mechanics and staff’s effort, all of our cars could participate Race 2!