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Oct
26
2009

A weekend at Sepang International Circuit (SIC)

UMP SAE Team was there!
We went to SIC for Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix on 25th October 2009. The trip is also followed by MECHAPRO team which is the another Shell Eco-marathon participant from Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). Departed from UMP at 7.00 am, we arrived at SIC at 11 am.

These are some snapshots at SIC:






Since that there were mechanistic atmosphere at SIC, we took these advantages to generate more ideas for our car for Shell Eco-marathon.

We left SIC at 6 pm in extraordinary atmosphere and congested exit road, and then arrived at UMP at 12.00 am, 26th October 2009.

Stoner conquered Sepang, World Champion for Rossi
What a wet day for the riders that have to race in wet track. However, podium position for Rossi was enough for him to grab his ninth world title. With nine titles, Rossi has now matched Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali; only Agostini has more (15) titles. Rossi also has 103 wins, 19 less than Agostini, and 163 podiums. The Fiat Yamaha rider has 44 wins for Yamaha since he joined in 2004, being the most successful Yamaha rider, with 21 more wins than Kenny Roberts, yamaha’s second most successful rider.

His sloppy start brought him to 10th position but he began picking off riders, and soon was in third place. The Italian cruised along, seemingly not being to aggressive due to certain wet parts of the circuit, knowing a podium finish would be satisfying.

As Stoner’s lead continued to grow, Pedrosa fought with his teammate Andrea Dovizioso for second place, but on lap 14 Dovizioso slid off the track due to the wet conditions, giving Pedrosa second place. Another rider that also DNF’d due to a crash was Randy de Puniet; the Frenchman viciously high-sided during lap 2.

Top 5 results:
125cc
1 - Julian SIMON
2 - Bradley SMITH
3 - Pol ESPARGARO
4 - Sergio GADEA
5 - Nicolas TEROL
*****
16 - Elly ILIAS
20 - Muhammad ZULFAHMI
Full result: [click here]

250cc
1 - Hiroshi AOYAMA
2 - Hector BARBERA
3 - Marco SIMONCELLI
4 - Thomas LUTHI
5 - Hector FAUBEL
Full result: [click here]

MotoGP
1 - Casey STONER
2 - Dani PEDROSA
3 - Valentino ROSSI
4 - Jorge LORENZO
5 - Nicky HAYDEN
Full result: [click here]

Congratulation to Rossi for his ninth title, Stoner for his victory in SIC and two young national riders, Elly Ilias and Muhammad Zulfahmi who made to finish the race in good place.

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