The primary spherical of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Competition Season 4, which was presupposed to be held on January 28-30 however was postponed because of the motion management order (MCO), is lastly going to occur. The brand new date is March 27-28 on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit.
UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) says that the occasion will conform to strict commonplace working procedures (SOPs), working underneath a sports activities bubble amidst the Covid-19 menace. As such, Spherical 1 of the Vios Problem can be held as a closed- door occasion with racing followers invited to what’s being billed as the largest live-streamed racing carnival in Malaysia aired over two days.
The one-make race could have 4 lessons, which incorporates the inaugural operating of the Rookie Class that includes six new graduates of the Gazoo Racing Younger Expertise Improvement Program, who’re stepping up from karting and simulators to saloon automobile racing for the primary time. The others are the Promotional Class, Sporting Class and Tremendous Sporting Class.
Followers will get to observe three qualifying periods, six particular person races, pit lane insights, interviews with racers, a celebrity-studded efficiency and different content material. Those that tune in may also have the chance to win prizes.
“It’s thrilling to be again racing, however as a lot as we want to instantly open our doorways to race followers for them to be on website, the specter of the pandemic has supplied up a brand new and maybe an much more promising method of enabling tens of millions of race followers to catch the motion on and off the monitor throughout the race weekend through dwell streaming and within the consolation and security of their properties,” mentioned UMWT deputy chairman and Toyota Gazoo Racing Malaysia’s chief motorsport officer Akio Takeyama.
“The Toyota Gazoo Racing Competition has primarily been about bringing motorsports to the lots – this focus has not modified – and to a terrific extent, we’ve got efficiently achieved this by bringing the races to so many various areas since 2017. The chance to dwell stream the carnival and a complete race weekend would imply reaching out to an excellent bigger and wider viewers, together with racing followers outdoors of Malaysia. The problem earlier than us immediately is to carry the vitality and ambiance of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Competition on-line,” he added.
Within the Promotional Class, actor Shukri Yahaya will lead the star line-up and he can be joined by actress Janna Nick, presenter Nabil Ahmad and singers Wany Hasrita, Nabila Razali and Khai Bahar. The three newcomers are actor Zizan Razak, singer-songwriter Talitha Tan and TV persona Ahirene Ahirudin.
Final season’s Promotional Class champ Shawn Lee is racing in his fourth consecutive season, however this time as a privateer within the Sporting Class for novice drivers. It is going to be Lee’s second stint within the aggressive class having gained the Promotional Class in Season 1, earlier than shifting as much as Sporting Class in Season 2 and returning to win his second Promotional Class title in Season 3.
Names to look out for embrace final season’s runner-up and Dream Chaser driver Bradley Benedict Anthony, Season 3’s second runner-up Haji Sutan Mustaffa, and different notable drivers comparable to Kenneth Koh, Adam Khalid, Ken Foo, Lim Chun Beng, Tom Goh, Mirza Syahmi and Dannies Ng. The Sporting Class will area a complete of 19 drivers.
Within the very aggressive Tremendous Sporting Class, two-time Vios Problem champion and newly-appointed Toyota Gazoo Racing Ambassador Tengku Djan Ley returns to defend his title. Final season’s Sporting Class champ and the youngest ever winner of the Vios Problem, 16 year-old Hayden Haikal, has earned a promotion into the Tremendous Sporting Class. The grid of 11 professional racers consists of Season 2 champion Boy Wong, final season’s runner-up Mark Darwin, final season’s second runner-up Freddie Ang, and William Ho, Kenny Lee, Keifli Othman, Syafiq Ali and Brendan Paul Anthony.
Total, Season 4 of the TGR Competition will function three racing sequence’ all year long, with 11 races. The season forward can be anchored by three rounds and 6 races within the Vios Problem. For his or her first time, Gazoo Racing may also make its presence felt within the nationwide racing sequence with the introduction of the Gazoo Racing Vios Dash Cup (two rounds, 4 races), and the Gazoo Racing Enduro Cup that can be run at the side of the annual Sepang 1000km Endurance Race.
All of the Spherical 1 motion can be broadcast dwell on UMWT’s web site and Fb web page, in addition to on the Toyota Gazoo Racing Malaysia FB web page.
