This time Sam Cheng is leading a group of off road drivers instead of on road to Malaysia. It took about 3 hours drive from Singapore to a permanent buggy track in Malacca on the West coast of Malaysia. It was a good outing for the Xray XB8 and team RB Singapore, after not racing off road for about 5 years this was a good experience.
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Sam just had enough time to fix up the car on Friday with a RB S7 II engine and a RB 063 one- piece pipe. This track has three jumps, one table- top and a set of woops, the best lap time was about 35+ sec per lap.
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It was a good Sunday, very nice weather and also a good turn out for this Malacca buggy open championship. Today we have many types of car racing at this permanent track. Throughout the 3 rounds of heats it was top Malaysian Hong Nor driver putting some fast lap times. At the end of 3 rounds of heat TQ went to Mizan (HN) with 12 laps 7.23 sec, and 2nd qualifer Sam Cheng (Xray/RB)12 laps 7.24 sec, 3rd qualifier was David Lim (Ho-Bao) with 12 laps and the rest 11 laps all the way down to D main, leaving some of the guys who did 10 laps without a final.
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In the A final 45 mins, top ace driver from Indonesia Andri Hartanton winning the race with his RB powered Sacker car, 2nd position Mizan and 3rd position Sam Cheng all with same 70 laps only separated by seconds. B main 35 mins, we have Glenn Phuah (Xray/RB) 3rd position, C main winner Luigi Venturi (Xray/RB).
A main
1. Andri Hartanton
2. Mizan 3. Sam Cheng Sin XRAY XB8