Hello everyone? This is just a short update on my radio control nitro gas powered car qualifying rounds on Saturday 26th January. However as always, thanks for the good luck and best wishes from some of you. Thank you. I guess some of you probably have prayed hard for me to have good result. Thanks.

OK, Saturday qualifying round has just finished. I was in the 1/10th scale Nitro car class with 60 racers from West Malaysia, Sarawak, Brunei and of course all throughout Sabah. We also have the F1 of RC, the 1/8th scale with only 30 racers participated.

The 1/10th class was divided into 6 groups and I was in the 2nd group. Meaning at around 9:20am, my qualifying heat started. Guess what, I came quite late and only reach the track at 8:30am. Well, biasalah (normal) for a father who have to send kids to nanny and wife to work. Anyway and somehow I managed to prepare my car and warm up the engine just in time for the first qualifying round. In short, the 1st round, as before, DNF - Did not finish race.

Well not because of broken parts or what, the car ran out of fuel on the very last lap on the very last corner. Damn Shui man! The qualifying round is only 5 minutes and my new engine ran out fuel!

1st round: 13 laps in 4 minutes plus. Top racers made 14 laps in 5 minutes.
2nd round: Got my 14 laps - top ten racers made 15 laps.
3rd round: Managed 14 laps only but got the record best lap time in my group 2. One guy from KL made 16 laps and at the TQ (Top Qualifier) position. He is a sponsor driver of Serpent.com.
4th round: Used new tires. No grip. My car keep swaying left and right, like the fast and furious drifters but somehow managed to maintain the 14 laps. Sadly cannot break the 15 laps.

At the end of four rounds of both nitro classes, it already 5pm. The qualifying rounds were done for the day. So what is my final position? Well, ladies and gentlemen, nothing to be proud of but nothing to be ignored too - I got my first ever breakthrough in my 5 years of racing on and off nitro on-road (I am a hardcore off-road rc racer by the way). I got right in the middle of the pack. My last nitro on-road was at 2003 and I qualified at the F-Main, meaning at the 60-70th position!

For this race and tomorrow final, I will be in the C-Main, meaning in the 21st to 30th position. I am at the 22nd position as at this posting. We will have another round of qualifying this Sunday morning at 9am and only afterwards we have our Final rounds. Waaaahhhh and I am still here typing all this at 5am!

As some wise men said when you are on the roll, might as well roll forever! I just created that myself. Hahaha. One more thing, if you like to gamble, don’t gamble your life and of course don’t use your money staying in the expensive hotel, go for the cheap hotel Las Vegas so you have enough money to bet on the poker table. Hahahaha.

Now, where’s that coming from? Thats for Papa’s fan leisure reading Hahaha. OK, I better prepare my car and engine. Charge the receiver and transponder batteries and start early on the track. To all who have wished me good luck before, please keep doing that and pray hard that I do well on my Final Main. Thanks and See you all later

*** pictures will be up soon … like next week