The Moto2 and Moto3 teams and riders are currently in Qatar for the final pre-season testing sessions at the Losail International Circuit. Looking at our very own two-wheels motorsports hero, Hafizh Syahrin, the young Malaysian lad continues to improve his pace on board the 765cc Triumph-powered Moto2 machine provided by the Angel Nieto squad (Aspar Team). (more…)
It’s getting harder and harder for someone in the motorsports industry to get support to do what they love and at the same time bring some good values for their country. Luckily for our national Moto2 rider, Hafizh Syahrin, his efforts are going unnoticed with more and more support pouring in. (more…)
Pelumba Moto2 negara, Hafizh Syahrin akhirnya mampu menarik nafas lega apabila mendapat suntikan penajaan menjelang pembukaan tirai MotoGP musim ini.
Tajaan daripada UMW Grantt International Sdn Bhd itu menyaksikan jumlah kutipan tajaan Hafizh kini telah pun mencapai 60 peratus sebelum aksi MotoGP buka tirai 6 hingga 8 Mac ini di Qatar.
Bagaimanapun, menurut laporan Bernama, jumlah tajaan oleh UMW Grantt International tidak didedahkan.
“Dengan tajaan ini, saya komited untuk memberikan segala-galanya untuk negara,” jelas Hafizh ketika menandatangani persetujuan dengan wakil UMW Grantt International, Anas Nasrun Mohd Osman.
Sebelum ini, Hafizh turut menerima tajaan daripada syarikat tempatan, Primavalet.
Hafizh yang sebelum ini bersama KTM Tech 3 di MotoGP, akan kembali beraksi di Moto2 musim 2020 setelah menyertai pasukan Angel Nieto.
Meskipun akui bergelut namun dia yakin mampu melakukan yang terbaik.
“Bukan mudah untuk menyesuaikan diri kerana MotoGP dan Moto2 sangat berbeza, lain ceritanya kalau saya naik dari Moto3 ke Moto2. Apa sekalipun, saya tidak terlalu bimbang kerana saya yakin mampu berikan yang terbaik,” tambahnya.
(SUMBER: Bernama)
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Jentera yang pernah ditunggangi pelumba negara, Hafizh Syahrin ketika di Moto2 kini dijual pada harga RM120,000.
Ini bukan model replika tetapi jentera 600cc yang diguna pakai Hafizh sendiri ketika bersama Petronas Raceline Malaysia.
Kombinasi kerangka Kalex dan enjin Honda CBR600RR ini merupakan antara faktor yang mencipta nama Hafizh di pentas dunia.
Menurut perkongsian di Facebook, jentera ini didatangkan dengan rim lightweight, fairing gentian karbon dan pelbagai lagi ciri lain yang dibina khas untuk perlumbaan di litar lumba.
Bagaimanapun, terdapat beberapa komponen yang telah ditukarkan dengan alat ganti yang lebih ‘mampu milik’.
Bukan itu sahaja, pembeli juga akan diberikan sebuah treler bagi memudahkan pergerakan.
Bagi yang mencari kelainan di litar lumba dan ingin tampak ‘rare’ ketika ‘Track Day’, mungkin ini jentera yang dicari.
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Hafizh Syahrin gets some much-needed support from one of Malaysia’s leading fashion brand, Primavalet. The newly signed partnership was made official earlier this afternoon between Primavalet and Malaysia’s first-ever MotoGP premier class rider. He is now the official ambassador for the major fashion house in 2020. (more…)
Pelumba Moto2 negara, Hafizh Syahrin, akan mendapat suntikan kewangan daripada Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS) bagi membantunya beraksi di saingan MotoGP musim ini.
Menurut laporan FMT, Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman mengesahkan perkara tersebut.
“Saya akan membantunya sebanyak mungkin kerana sebelum ini fokus kami adalah mencari penaja daripada badan swasta.
“Saya telah berbincang dengan pihak atasan dan kami ketika ini masih menanti permohonan daripada Hafizh.
“Kami akan terus mencari jalan untuk membantunya,” jelas Syed Saddiq.
Bekas pelumba KTM Tech3 itu bakal membuat penampilan semula di saingan Moto2 bagi musim 2020 setelah kehilangan tempat di MotoGP.
Dia akan bertanding bersama pasukan Angel Nieto Team namun perlu mencari penaja dan mengeluarkan perbelanjaan sendiri termasuk penginapan, penerbangan dan kos latihan.
(SUMBER: FMT)
The Yamaha Sepang Racing Team will start from pole position at the 8 Hours of Sepang inaugural FIM Endurance World Championship (FIM EWC) race. The team consists of riders Hafizh Syahrin, Franco Morbidelli and Michael Van Der Mark. Syahrin and Morbidelli are MotoGP riders, while van der Mark rides for the factory Yamaha WorldSBK outfit. The team’s #21 Yamaha YZF-R1 is prepared by YART and shod with Bridgestone tyres. They are competing in the premier Formula EWC class.
Such a great means the team is poised to gain victory in their “home” race. A win would make up for Morbidelli’s disappointment of finishing in 5th after qualifying second fastest in the Malaysian MotoGP. Besides that, it’ll be a great confidence boost for Hafizh Syahrin as well after being dropped by the Red Bull KTM Racing Tech 3 MotoGP team for 2020.
The second qualifying session started at 7pm yesterday. The FIM EWC uses combined qualifying times to determine the grid positions. The 10 fastest goes through to the Top 10 Trial shootout, which is like the Superpole format. The teams then put forth their fastest rider for a single flying lap to determine grid positions 1st through 10th.
Thailand’s Somkiat Chantra of Honda Asia Dream Racing set the gauntlet by posting an eye-popping time of 2m 05.440s. That took the team from 9th to 1st. One of Somkiat’s teammate is Malaysia rider Zaqhwan Zaidi who took part in the Suzuka 8 Hours in July.
But Morbidelli, the current MotoGP rider for the Yamaha Sepang Racing Team struck back with a 2m 04.647s lap. The Italian’s effort was a valiant fight given an early crash.
Qualifying third was the F.C.C. TSR Honda France team, who were previous champions in the series.
The BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team did well again to qualify in 4th. Remember, this is only their first season in the FIM EWC since 2015.
By contrast, the championship leading Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT) ended qualifying in 11th.
Read: Up close with the BMW S 1000 RR FIM EWC race bike
The Superstock class saw titanic battles for the starting grid up and down the field. In end, it was the Japanese team Tone RT Syncedge 4413 BMW who prevailed, just beating out French based Moto Ain. The former was team were the fastest at the Suzuka 8 Hour, while the latter was last season’s FIM Endurance World Cup winner.
The race starts at 1pm on Saturday. Be there!
Read: 10 Points about the FIM Endurance World Championship and 8 Hours of Sepang
Hafizh Syahrin is excited to try his hand at four-wheels racing in the Sepang 1000km Endurance (S1K) this weekend.
Using his time out away from his usual vocation, Hafizh had been training with Hi-Re SIC Dream Chaser team a week before the season ending race at Valencia. The training aim to bring him up to speed in the world of four-wheeled racing at the Sepang International Circuit.
Hafizh said that the S1K will be his preparation for the World Touring Car Races (WCTR) which will be held back-to-back with the FIM World Endurance Championship (FEWC) motorcycle endurance from 13th to 15th December.
He will also race in the FEWC in a Petronas and SIC backed team which consists of Franco Morbidelli besides another rider.
“I have to prepare myself in mental and physical aspects. I have to familiarise myself with different sensations and feel in a car on the track.”
He will be driving a Toyota Vios with the number 910 along with 17-year-old up and coming driver Bradley Benedict Anthony, and Alister Yoong who is the son of former Malaysian Formula 1 driver Alex Yoong.
72 cars will fill the SIC grid this weekend.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports announced that they will assist Hafizh Syahrin in his 2020 Moto2 quest.
The minister YB Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said that the funds will be channelled through the Sepang International Circuit (SIC). He also iterated that it is the ministry’s wish to see the rider continue to campaign at the world stage.
“I spoke with Sepang International Circuit CEO Dato’ Razlan Razali and will ensure that he (Hafizh) will continue to ride in Moto2, despite Petronas being unwilling to sponsor him,” said the minister.
Hafizh had previously revealed that he will not receive a salary for riding in the Angel Nieto team next year. Conversely, he will only receive incentives should he finish on the podium. That arrangement would leave him to source for sponsors to assist in flight tickets, accommodation and training while he is overseas.
Apart from this announcement, YB Syed Saddiq also spoke up against allegations that the current government does not care about motorsports, especially after Minister of Finance YB Lim Guan Eng’s announcement of providing RM 20 million funding to develop e-sports.
He said that his ministry had provided much funding to SIC in running race teams to develop future champions.
Meskipun sekadar menamatkan perlumbaan di kedudukan ke-19 di GP Jepun, semalam, namun Hafizh Syahrin tetap mencuri tumpuan apabila membantu menunda juara MotoGP, Marc Marquez.
Marquez – yang turut menjuarai perlumbaan di Litar Motegi itu – mengalami masalah enjin sebaik menamatkan perlumbaan.
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Hafizh kemudiannya menghulurkan bantuan dengan menunda juara dunia enam kali itu.
Marquez mendominasi GP Jepun dengan catatan masa 32 minit 41.492 saat diikuti Fabio Quartararo dan Andrea Dovizisio, ketiga.
Bagaimanapun, aksi Hafizh di akhir perlumbaan terus mendapat pujian dari netizen.
Rakyat Malaysia bakal mendapat peluang untuk menyaksikan pelumba negara itu di Litar Antarabangsa Sepang, November depan untuk pusingan kedua terakhir MotoGP.
Pelumba negara, Hafizh Syahrin baru-baru ini disahkan bakal mewakili pasukan Angel Nieto di saingan Moto2 musim depan.
Dia terpaksa turun dari kelas premier musim ini tatkala tempatnya di KTM Tech3 akan diisi Brad Binder bagi musim 2020.
Bagaimanapun, di Angel Nieto, Hafizh tidak akan menerima sebarang bayaran gaji dan hanya akan menerima insentif sekiranya berjaya menempatkan dirinya dikelompok depan.
Menyedari perkara ini, Menteri Belia Dan Sukan, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, membuat keputusan untuk menyalurkan dana kepada pelumba berusia 25 tahun itu menerusi Litar Antarabangsa Sepang (SIC).
Namun, KBS menjangkakan dana tersebut tidak mencukupi untuk membantu Hafizh bagi sepanjang musim depan sekaligus menggesa pihak swasta menyuntik dana terhadap pelumba itu.
“KBS dan SIC adakan perbincangan dan kami memang akan tampung peruntukan yang agak besar bagi penyertaannya, namun masih tidak cukup. Ia tidak boleh hanya kerajaan, sektor korporat juga perlu membantu.
“Saya pun sudah berkali-kali berjumpa dengan pihak Petronas, mereka ada sampaikan pendapat mereka, saya tetap perlu menghormati Petronas sebagai penaja terbesar kita dalam permotoran.
“Cuma sekarang saya tengah cari jalan terbaik untuk membina ‘jambatan kukuh’ di antara Petronas dan Hafizh. Kita tahu apa berlaku pada masa silam tetapi kita perlu bergerak ke hadapan,” jelasnya.
(SUMBER: Bernama)
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