Honda Malaysia Racing Team

Summary

Honda Malaysia Racing Team is an auto racing team from Malaysia establish in 2003 by Honda Malaysia to compete in Merdeka Millennium Endurance race, currently competing in the Sepang 1000 km. Interesting enough, the team members are mostly Honda Malaysia's staffs to encourage them to practise the Honda's Challenging Spirit philosophy. They had no experience in racing and were trained from a zero to a hero.

Malaysia Honda Malaysia Racing Team
Founded2003
BaseAlor Gajah, Melaka
Current seriesSepang 1000 km
Former seriesMerdeka Millennium Endurance
Malaysia Championship Series

Between year 2003 to 2007, the team received technical guidance from Mugen Motorsports[1] and since 2008 the team became an independent Malaysian team with advisers from Japan.

The team has won Merdeka Millennium Endurance Class A five times in a row from 2003 to 2007,[2] it also won the race overall in 2004.


Merdeka Millennium Endurance Result edit

Year Car No Drivers Class Laps Class
Pos.
Pos.
2003 Honda Integra Type R 26   Kunimitsu Takahashi
  Hidetoshi Mitsusada
  Hiroki Katoh
A 261 1st 3rd
Honda Integra Type R 28   Lo Ka Chun
  Lo Ka Fai
  Ng Kok Chin
A 254 3rd 6th
2004 Honda Civic 26   Kunimitsu Takahashi
  Hidetoshi Mitsusada
  Tommy Lee
A 260 3rd 3rd
Honda Civic 27   Eddie Liew
  Farriz Fauzy
  Hiroki Katoh
A 265 1st 1st
2005 Honda Civic 26   Kunimitsu Takahashi
  Ryo Michigami
  Tommy Lee
A 253 4th 8th
Honda Civic 27   Eddie Liew
  Farriz Fauzy
  Hiroki Katoh
A 278 1st 2nd
2006 Honda Civic 26   Kunimitsu Takahashi
  Shinya Hosokawa
  Rueben Wong
A 209 8th 41st
Honda Civic 27   Eddie Liew
  Farriz Fauzy
  Hiroki Katoh
A 258 1st 4th
2007 Honda Civic Type R 26   Aaron Lim
  Rueben Wong
  Fahrizal Hasan
A 282 2nd 3rd
Honda Civic Type R 27   Eddie Liew
  Hiroki Katoh
  Shinya Hosokawa
A 283 1st 2nd
2008 Honda Civic Type R 26   Rueben Wong
  Fahrizal Hasan
  Faisal Asri
A 252 9th 23rd
Honda Civic Type R 27   Eddie Liew
  Aaron Lim
  Victor Cheong
A 267 6th 18th
2009 Honda Civic Type R 27   Eddie Liew
  Aaron Lim
  Rueben Wong
A2 278 2nd 8th
2010 Honda Civic Type R 27   Eddie Liew
  Aaron Lim
  Rueben Wong
TP 281 1st 8th

Sepang 1000 km Result edit

Year Car Drivers Laps Pos.
2012 Honda Jazz   Tengku Ezan Ley
  Farriz Fauzy
177 5th
Honda Jazz   Aaron Lim
  Eddie Liew
140 20th
2013 Honda Jazz   Aaron Lim
  Eddie Liew
181 1st
Honda Jazz   Tengku Ezan Ley
  Farriz Fauzy
167 9th
2014 Honda Jazz   Aaron Lim
  Eddie Liew
180 3rd
Honda City   Farriz Fauzy
  Alif Hamdan
177 4th
Honda Jazz   Jeff Tan Zhong Zheng
  Mohd Henzee Hamzah
172 6th
2015 Honda City   Aaron Lim
  Farriz Fauzy
181 1st[3]
2016 Honda Jazz   Aaron Lim
  Farriz Fauzy
180 2nd
2017 Honda Jazz   Aaron Lim
  Farriz Fauzy
142 DNF
Honda City   Mark Darwin
  Ahmad Akid Noor
127 26th

References edit

  1. ^ "Honda Malaysia Racing Team Raring To Win Back MME Glory Days". motorsportchannel.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Rising to "The Challenge Within" won Class A Championship title for the 5th consecutive year in MME". Honda Malaysia. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Aaron and Farriz, Honda Malaysia Racing Team Wins S1K". Sepang Circuit. Retrieved 14 November 2017.