Jason Nugroho reports after taking second place at the recent Lap Paradise Inaugural race which took place this past weekend at Johor Bahru, Malaysia… There were a total of 55 racers in attendance and only 4 racers from Indonesia. A day before practice heavy rain made the track wet and muddy. So, I couldn’t do any practice on Friday. Because I didn’t have any practice prior the race day and I thought the track was still too muddy, I didn’t go to the track in the morning of qualifying day. I was waiting to hear good news about track conditions from my friends first.
After I heard that the track became dry and hardpack at the end of qualifying day, I came to the track on Sunday and started from the lower final 1/8A. After 25 min 1/8 finals and 25 min at 1/4 finals I bumped up to semis. I won my semifinal race and got 3rd position on the grid for the A-main. As usual, I got caught in the traffic at the beginning of the A-main went down to 11th position. In lap 44 I got 1 time engine cut. Then I tried to push the car as much as I could making the best of the best lap time for this track at 26.122 sec and finished 2nd , only 10 sec behind the winner.
Final results:
- Adrian Wicaksono ( Indonesia )
- Jason Nugroho ( Indonesia ) – Xray XB9 2013
- Kelvin Yong ( Malaysia )
- Joe Hwee ( Singapore )
- Azalee Aiman ( Malaysia )
- Ron Kon ( Malaysia )
- Melvin Tan ( Malaysia )
- Youyi ( Singapore )
- Alvin Lam ( Malaysia )
- Anthony Yeo ( Singapore )
- Loon Lee ( Malaysia )
- Ah Leng ( Singapore )
- Eric Lim ( Malaysia )
- Tan Chee Meng ( Malaysia )
- Ben Panic ( Singapore )
