malaysian..?????

[Safariworld]

Smurf, you are in Sabah, right? I think they had the audio cover since the time their car appeared on Xtremekar magazine. When I was at the shop, they asked me if I wanted to buy it but I'm sticking with the factory audio. They're quite helpful actually. I bought the RS rear bumper reflector from them

[smurf]

Originally Posted by Safariworld

Smurf, you are in Sabah, right? I think they had the audio cover since the time their car appeared on Xtremekar magazine. When I was at the shop, they asked me if I wanted to buy it but I'm sticking with the factory audio. They're quite helpful actually. I bought the RS rear bumper reflector from them

yea ...i'm at sabah........
its really hard to get yaris stuff here..

[leowhy]

how's the trash out in pasir gudang?

[cleong]

The day started out wet, grey and gloomy, but when we got to the track after lunch, the track was bone-dry, it was as cool as we can expect for a tropical afternoon, and it was all good to go for the track!

In a bid to avoid stressing the car too much I planned only 5 laps each time I went out in addition to one warm up lap and one cooldown lap. I found the car suffered from a lot of corner entry understeer, maybe I was just entering corners way too fast. But the brakes held up and felt good for the duration of each run.

I also paced a Suzuki Swift Sport down the straight and found that the Yaris doesn't give up very much in terms of straightline speed. As my 5 laps were up, I didn't stay with him long enough to see if its cornering was better than mine, but I would feel that would be the case.

I got a little bit faster max speed than Marc (nurburgring) (I recorded a 154kph down the back straight). However I suffered from pretty bad understeer which resulted in quite a lot of front tire scrub. Didn't really cross my mind to reduce tire pressures till toward the end of the session, when I really didn't want to go out anymore.

Also had a run with a Proton Gen 2 Coupe/Satria which was surprisingly quick. I could overtake him (and he graciously gave way) but I found it hard to shake him and pushed too hard trying to lose him. He may have just wanted to follow me instead of being followed by me! Haha..

I clocked a similar lap time to Marc, he is very smooth and consistent while I was all over the place. In addition I was making mistakes all over the place. So technically I had the marginally faster car (manual vs. auto), but he was the better driver.

I clocked near 20 laps. I went into JB with 3/4 of a tank, and filled up on the way home (I did 12.5km/litre which is not bad considering I was on high revs all the time I was on track). That, and quite a lot of Michelin rubber I'd left on the track, plus a bit of coolant lost. I didn't feel that my car was flexing too much, although I felt that the car hops a little through high-G corners when the suspension starts bottoming out.

Hopefully we will see a better turnout next time.

A few photos to show that we were there (too busy tracking to take action pics)


Getting ready to go in!


Having an empty boot makes for a lighter car.


Post tracking and its time for the cars to hit the showers!


One of our friends......


......is Takumi!