MMER: Phillipa, Deana & Kazumi take 6th
Pipa (centre) with Deanna (on her left) and Kazumi...(click image to enlarge)
Pipa (centre) with Kazumi and Deanna posing with X1-R RedBull race car...(click image to enlarge)
Phillipa Yoong - popularly known as Pipa, Actress/Model celebrity racer, Deanna Yusoff and Japanese Formula 4 and GT racer Kazumi Mikami took their X1-R RedBull Racing Team's Proton Satria GTI to a remarkable 6th in class B and 19th overall in the just concluded excrutiatingly exhausting Merdeka Millenium 12 Hour Endurance race run between 11am and 11pm last Saturday at the Sepang International circuit.
Together with her team mates, Pipa anchored the team to qualify amongst the 26 class B starters out of 35 entries. Nine teams had to be eliminated when they didn't make the cut-off mark due to the fantastic pace of the class B cars for 1900cc and below this year.
"We only just managed it," said Pipa of their qualifying, "We were not in amongst the qualifiers with 15 minutes left...we only did it in the last two flying laps at the very end of the 3 sessions!".
"We were fast catching up for 5th in class in the final hour of the race but dehydration set in for one of my team mates as was the case with other drivers of other teams due to the intense heat all day. Then a scare for us all when the gearbox started failing. But all's well that ends well as we broke our previous record of 37th overall with this 19th overall finish out of 77 cars starting."
Pipa attributed the good finish to teamwork, concluding that, "All of us in the team are proud of the results as we achieved this together. All the drivers, team crew and supporters gave our best efforts and most of all I thank all the sponsors whose support made it possible for the team to do so well."
The 27 year-old production house administration manager was a top five Asian ranked water skiier and the Jakarta SEA Games gold medal winner as well as the current triple holder of the Malaysian records for women's slalom, tricks and jump in water skiing.
Together with her team mates, Pipa anchored the team to qualify amongst the 26 class B starters out of 35 entries. Nine teams had to be eliminated when they didn't make the cut-off mark due to the fantastic pace of the class B cars for 1900cc and below this year.
"We only just managed it," said Pipa of their qualifying, "We were not in amongst the qualifiers with 15 minutes left...we only did it in the last two flying laps at the very end of the 3 sessions!".
"We were fast catching up for 5th in class in the final hour of the race but dehydration set in for one of my team mates as was the case with other drivers of other teams due to the intense heat all day. Then a scare for us all when the gearbox started failing. But all's well that ends well as we broke our previous record of 37th overall with this 19th overall finish out of 77 cars starting."
Pipa attributed the good finish to teamwork, concluding that, "All of us in the team are proud of the results as we achieved this together. All the drivers, team crew and supporters gave our best efforts and most of all I thank all the sponsors whose support made it possible for the team to do so well."
The 27 year-old production house administration manager was a top five Asian ranked water skiier and the Jakarta SEA Games gold medal winner as well as the current triple holder of the Malaysian records for women's slalom, tricks and jump in water skiing.
2005 MMER CLASS B RESULTS
Pos./No./Drivers/Laps Completed/Total Time
1 71 M.Eddy / G.Johnson / F.Jouy 250 12h 02m 15.942s
2 73 M.Rose / P.Leemhuis / R.Gartner 250 12:02:49.198
3 48 Shamsul B./ HS.Lim / HL.Chin 250 12:04:19.493
4 68 Keno / KC.Chung / Nizam Y. 249 12:04:01.114
5 51 YC.Choo / SK.Lau / Azwan A. 244 12:02:21.110
6 53 K.Mikami / Deanna Y./ Phillipa Y. 244 12:04:01.088
6 53 K.Mikami / Deanna Y./ Phillipa Y. 244 12:04:01.088
7 70P C.Ng / Y.Morita / S.Velumani 244 12:04:17.431
8 63 A.Tan / C.Tan / K.Low 243 12:01:57.227
9 46 Shazull H./ Soffiz H./ Mazran A. 239 12:03:56.737
10 77 Ali Z./ Syahril Y./ Fattah A. 236 12:03:55.202
11 66 TK.Tan / SF.Lim / WL.Ho 228 12:02:43.747
12 55 Faizal S./ Zaki K./ Ahmed F. 220 11:58:23.783
13 80 Shahril A./ Fahmi A./ Zaidi B. 214 12:04:03.447
14 52 A.Kesavamoorthy/R.Ayyavu/A.Saravanan 213 12:03:58.442
15 50 PC.Kok / KC.Ng / EC.Lim 212 12:03:10.760
16 69 Rashid R./ Noor Y./ Azman R. 210 12:04:05.929
Note: 35 entries, 26 qualifiers, 16 finishers in Class B
Note: 35 entries, 26 qualifiers, 16 finishers in Class B
posted by Journeyman at 4:17 PM
2 Comments:
Well done girls! Impressive, to say the least!
I'm fascinated with the results..!
It's cool...
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