The yr 2020 was considered one of beforehand unknown hardship and ordeals, with the impression of the Covid-19 pandemic felt not simply in Malaysia however across the globe. It was a yr wherein Malaysia Pace Pageant (MSF) confronted the challenges head-on.
Sadly, the much-awaited model new MSF Touge Hillclimb occasion sequence was unable to get off the bottom, initially as a result of native council allow points for Spherical 1 at Janda Baik, and when the pandemic hit, there was an extended wait-and-see interval for which we have been unable to mobilise.
Elsewhere, MSF SuperBikes, which was coming into its third profitable yr and noticed Ducati Homeowners Membership Malaysia (DOCM) taking a slot with a full quota of Ducati owner-racers, was left caught at the beginning line grid with the “one-minute to go” board displaying.
Nonetheless, with artistic innovation, we managed to maintain the racing fever burning when everybody was caught at residence in the course of the darkest of instances that was the motion management order (MCO). This was completed through our new e-racing sequence, MSF CyberTurismo, which ran over eight months and throughout 82 episodes, with over 240 digital race begins on Gran Turismo Sport.
The digital sequence, which was aired on Astro Area HD, ably showcased the enjoyable, fever, and household of what’s ‘The MSF Method’, and noticed many making new associates by means of the net racing area.
We cooperated and efficiently fired up the nation’s curiosity in national-level saloon automotive racing when MSF partnered with Sepang Circuit’s (SIC) personal Malaysia Championship Collection (MCS) occasion, packing in a weekend that was one of many largest within the Malaysian annual motorsports calendar. There have been over 337,000 on-line broadcast views in complete, and over 50,000 viewers on the Merdeka Race highlights programmes aired on Astro Area the next week.
The success of final yr’s Merdeka Race tie-up has benefitted nationwide saloon automotive motor racing, opening the doorways to cooperation between MSF and SIC to collaborate on a long-term purpose of making a structured Driver Improvement ladder for the expansion of the nationwide saloon automotive motorsports trade.
This will probably be a yr of change, adaptation and enlargement, the place we are going to proceed to construct MSF right into a famend motorsports pageant sequence. Our flagship MSF Racing will evolve into two-day weekend occasions, and we will probably be working intently with SIC and mixing with MCS on various races to create larger, extra thrilling, and extra partaking national-level motor racing festivals.
Every race weekend will probably be function a unique race format creating a unique problem every spherical. The Merdeka Race will develop into a giant carnival, and the Sepang 1000 km weekend will probably be linked to turn into the season-ending climax Finale occasion for the yr.
As for MSF SuperTurismo, will probably be cohesively restructured with MCS to carry extra worth and set up the nationwide saloon automotive racing driver improvement construction. Will probably be the identical, however enhanced for all.
Avenue classes will stay as they’re, offering the hyperlink to street-level racing groups, however the Final classes will amalgamate with the MCS classes, which as an entire will evolve and hyperlink with laws of comparable and related racing sequence across the area. The Final Open will proceed to be the last word tuner-level race, that includes probably the most monstrous of tuned and modified race automobiles within the nation.
In the meantime, MSF SuperBikes will function in the course of the Merdeka Race and Finale, and we’re trying ahead to two-wheeled racers going elbow-to-elbow as they get again on to the circuit after not having the ability to battle it out in 2020. MSF hopes that DOCM will proceed to think about our actions, and we’re trying ahead to those highly effective, unique pink beauties hearth it up and struggle it out to be the MSF DesmoCup Champion.
The brand new X Avenue Mania, that includes MSF SuperMoto and Drifting in addition to MSF Touge will run in 2021. These are eagerly awaited sequence which is able to develop the MSF ethos to new geographical places and venues across the nation. MSF will probably be introduced nearer to the followers, and can enterprise to venues north, south, and east of the nation, hitting the twisty, winding roads of the perfect Malaysian hills. That is the extreme-side of motorsports, and we’re trying ahead to get these occasions up and roaring.
Lastly, it’s about adapting. The “new regular” implies that individuals will probably be much less cellular and journey much less – MSF is seeking to carry the pageant to their houses by means of stay broadcasting of all occasions on social media, with occasion highlights being proven on Astro Area HD.
Planning for 2021 has been troublesome given the circumstances, however MSF is trying ahead to a greater second half of the yr, the place we anticipate that motorsports ought to be capable of get going from late Q2 onward.
As proven within the pictures on this story, now we have a full calendar of dates deliberate, however with the current rise in day by day an infection charges and MCO 2.0, we are actually seeking to start competitors racing actions after Hari Raya Puasa. We’re counting down the times to after we’ll be revving it up and going wheel-to-wheel once more. Within the meantime, keep protected.
