Round 1 of the Indonesia National Truggy Championship was held on March 20, 2011 at Graha Raya Bintaro, Tangerang (about 45km from the center of Jakarta city). There were a total 16 racers. The race format was 3 rounds of 10min qualifying, using the âś1 best roundâť system and two groups of finals (A-B) with 5 drivers bumping up.
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After qualifying I was in 2nd place out of the 16 racers. I went into the 45min A-final and started 2nd on the grid. As usual, my car got hit by other cars in the final round and dropped me back to 10th place.
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This time it was not so easy to take back the lead since the track was not so big. I pushed my car very hard until I got a best lap at 36.817sec â“ about 2.5sec faster than my previous best lap of 39.217sec in the qualifying round. I got into 2nd place around 3 minutes before the end of the race, but something happened at the last moment with my car flipping at the last corner before the timing loop and this made me finish in 3rd place.
