Batu Pahat Drift Demo 02DEC2009

The journey to south begin on 1st Jan 2010 morning. There were 3 cars and 6 persons involved which were Nick, Amat, Ita, Isz Manta, Latif and me. Around 2pm we reach Hentian Jejantas Air Keroh to have our lunch. On our way to Tok house, we stop by at Rashid residential area. At that momment, his Cefiro A31 undergone a grooming session. Old Tein stickers were removed and replaced with huge Rattlezasia stickers. The results of Rashid's A31 were shown in ASDC 2009 topic above. We heading down south again and reach Muar at Tok House located in Tanjung Agas/Kesang Laut (dont know which exact location really), as our base camp, around 3pm. the cozy was just for a while coz we head down to Nizam workshop to give him a visit. After that it just usual stuff with drive through at Pear juice stall.

On the next day (2nd Jan 2010) morning, we assembled in front of Muar police station to be escort to Batu Pahat. After one hour of waiting, only 5 cars gathered. It should be a convoy with another 40 superbikes but they did not turn up. So the police officer decided that there would no need of police escort if the number of convoy is too small. It does make sense since we are not minister or VVIP to be escort in small a small convoy.huhu.




So the jurney to Dataran Batu Pahat began. Since there was no police escort, all drift cars decided to floor the throttle "Rempit Style" on the Federal road (jalan lama) which leaving the only standard car behind.huhu...





The moment we arrived at the dataran, we were shocked due to no preparation on track setup and there were visitors car parked in the drifting area. Furthemore, the space given to do demo drift was small. So we do the track setup ourselves. We did try to make an 'R' layout but its too dangerous for us and the spectators. The only layout that come off were a big donut and figure 8.

The addiction is on for Latif to develop his drifting skills. Dry tarmac just not being kind to his 14 x 8 inch rim with those hipari tyres. So he changed to 13 x 6.5" rim wishing to finish up those old stock tyres. He did bring 6 pieces rims and tyres (total tyres this car has was 10 pieces) hoping that he will burn down at least 4 pieces. But the nature was not agree with what he thinking. The rain pours down to tarmac. The drift demo continues.

As we continue playing in the rain, Rocker and friends arrived. They join us play in the rain alternately. Taking pictures in the rain was interesting since it did looks like the car is drifting on a mirror. Also the car does look like flying.haha..

There is no need to jammed up under an umbrella while enjoy the action, isn't it Lan.

At the end of the day, it was a good event. Thank you Sport and Youth Minister (KBS) who invited us to do this demo. We will be honor to do this again and colaborate with KBS. Latif's tyres also did not burn down totally and he did have lots of thread left. And ofcourse he had to went back to KL with same amount of tyres and lots of lesson learned to develop his skill.