THE NOTORIOUS EVO 9 BLAZING THE 400 METER STRETCH

Ahmad Firdaus won the second round of the 2009 Sepang Drag Battle recently. The 25-year-old knew what he needed to win after finishing in second place in the first round of the Drag Battle.

“Power was sufficient but to balance things out so the car will get off the line easier we needed to lighten the car so we replaced the doors and some of the panels with fiber ones,” explained Firdaus about the modification done on the Mitsubishi EVO that he drove in the competition.

“I’m really happy with the car now and the result shows, hopefully it will last me the whole season but we’ll see what happens in the next round,” exclaimed Firdaus after beating 11 other competitors in class A.

More than 3000 spectators came that night to watch 137 competitors racing with each other in a 400m dash in 7 classes from the everything-go class A to the limited modification Campro powered cars in Class G.

There are five rounds of the Sepang Drag Battle scheduled for this year and the third round is blasting off on July 18 2009.

Tickets are sold at RM50 for Pit area while the grandstand seats are going at RM10.

Parking for cars is RM5 for cars and RM2 for bikes.

SEPANG DRAG BATTLE ROUND 2 - RESULT

Class A

1. Ahmad Firdaus Asman                     11.504s

2. Hasan Muhamad                             11.900s

3. Md Mazln Dholy                               -

Class B

1. Mohd Ainul Azri Mohd                    12.277s

2. Mohd Zamri Ahmad                       12.297s

3. Mohd Fadhill Othman                     13.932s

Class C

1. Mohd Iqbal Ismail Tajinder            21.261s

2. Khairul Anwar Ahmad                    Jump Start

3. Mohd Maziz Abdullah                    12.640s

Class D

1. Hamizi Kasbala                               14.541s

2. Yaacob Othman                              15.006s

3. Muhamad Ridwan Othman               15.124s

Class E

1. Nor Azmil Nordin                           14.422s

2. Mohd Ridzuan Alias                       14.824s

3. Ahmad Faizal Mohd                       14.784s

Class F (Non-Vtec)

1. Kamarul                                          14.744s

2. Sharum Nizam Md Sain                     14.915s

3. Amalan S.                                       15.019s

Class F (Vtec)

1. Ahmad Firdaus Azman                        13.481s

2. Iqbal                                                13.628s

3. Baharul Aslan Abu Bakar                     14.079s

Class G

1. Mark Darwin Partap Singh                    15.658s

2. Ashrahul Mohammad Rumai              Jump Start

3. Norazam Adnan                                  17.091s