Thunder Asia Mosler Racing gets set for Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race (MMER)
03 Aug 2009|1,959 views
Strengthening the team's effort in the MMER will be 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion Tim Sugden and Malaysia's Jazeman Jaafar, sharing the driver's seat with Thunder Asia Racing's own Singaporean race car driver, Melvin Choo.
Backed by the Mosler factory, the team's Mosler MT900R will sport a new Aero Package to suit the longer races. Mosler's engineers have used all the information from the team's sessions and previous races to further refine the drive characteristics of the car.
During the Super GT, Melvin Choo and Mosler's works driver Martin Short qualified a respectable 8th out of 19 cars in the GT300 category. The team started off well during the first 4 laps of the race. On the 5th lap, a loss of power steering forced the car down to 5th position. More precious time was lost at the pitstop when the car refused to start due to a fuel pump failure. Despite the difficulties, the drivers pushed on to finish in 13th position in the GT300 race.
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On their preparation for the longer and unforgiving MMER, the team has had encouraging pre-race tests, especially inspired with Choo's pairing with Sugden and Jazeman.
"The first was to work on reliability by carrying out a high number of tests and I also wanted to make sure that the team mechanics were fully motivated before MMER. It is also important to complete the line-up with experienced drivers, which is why we have selected Tim Sugden and Jazeman Jaafar whose passion to win is as strong as Mel and everyone in the team," added Zaini.
The 16-year old Jazeman Jaafar is currently racing in the Formula BMW Europe championship. He started karting at the age of six and was the 2007 Formula BMW Asia. He was the youngest driver to take part in the 2007 MMER competing in a Lotus Exige 300RR with Proton R3 Motorsports.
Strengthening the team's effort in the MMER will be 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion Tim Sugden and Malaysia's Jazeman Jaafar, sharing the driver's seat with Thunder Asia Racing's own Singaporean race car driver, Melvin Choo.
Backed by the Mosler factory, the team's Mosler MT900R will sport a new Aero Package to suit the longer races. Mosler's engineers have used all the information from the team's sessions and previous races to further refine the drive characteristics of the car.
During the Super GT, Melvin Choo and Mosler's works driver Martin Short qualified a respectable 8th out of 19 cars in the GT300 category. The team started off well during the first 4 laps of the race. On the 5th lap, a loss of power steering forced the car down to 5th position. More precious time was lost at the pitstop when the car refused to start due to a fuel pump failure. Despite the difficulties, the drivers pushed on to finish in 13th position in the GT300 race.
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On their preparation for the longer and unforgiving MMER, the team has had encouraging pre-race tests, especially inspired with Choo's pairing with Sugden and Jazeman.
"The first was to work on reliability by carrying out a high number of tests and I also wanted to make sure that the team mechanics were fully motivated before MMER. It is also important to complete the line-up with experienced drivers, which is why we have selected Tim Sugden and Jazeman Jaafar whose passion to win is as strong as Mel and everyone in the team," added Zaini.
The 16-year old Jazeman Jaafar is currently racing in the Formula BMW Europe championship. He started karting at the age of six and was the 2007 Formula BMW Asia. He was the youngest driver to take part in the 2007 MMER competing in a Lotus Exige 300RR with Proton R3 Motorsports.
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