Team MOFAZ Racing – “Macho” Aston Contender For The 2010 MME Race On Sunday

MOFAZ brings brute-force with precision skills to the 10th Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race this Sunday, 8th August 2010.

MOFAZ has been heavily involved in motorsports for the last twenty years, it also managed to acquire the Fortec racing outfit that resides in the UK, which helped produce the likes of Juan Pablo Montoya, Heikki Kovalainen, Jarno Trulli as well as Fairuz Fauzy, allowing for the emergence of MOFAZ Racing and making it the first Asian company to own a comeptitve racing team in the World Series Championship.

Taking a look at their driver line-up MOFAZ has three strong drivers that will contend for the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race (MMER) championship this Sunday.

The race will begin at the stroke of midnight on Sunday and end at mid-day (12pm) Sunday afternoon. For the twelve hours of grueling test of endurance, the helm of the Aston Martin will be passed through the hands of Fairuz Fauzy, Farriz Fauzy and Rizal Ramli. These three drivers bring extensive knowledge and above all else, experience, to the forefront of Malaysia’s endurance racing.

Fairuz has had extensive experience in racing having been in Formula Renault, F3, Formula Ford, GP2, GP2 Asia, Spyker F1 Test Driver, A1 GP Malaysia Driver Renault’s F3.5 (2009) and now Lotus Racing’s 3rd Driver in Formula 1. “Personally, I’ve always wanted to take part in the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race, but over the past ten years, my racing schedule has always clashed with the MME dates. This year, the time gap between the Haungarian GP and Belgian GP has allowed me to fulfill this desire!” when queried about his participation in the MME this year. With regards to strategy, Fairuz maintains that “The focus for our team is to gain crucial data from testing to ensure the reliability and consistency of our car throughout the race. Our Key concern also lies in management of the tyres, as we need to make sure that the tyres last as long as possible to optimise the number of pit stops.”

Farriz Fauzy

His brother, Farriz Fauzy, has contended successfully in F3 and more importantly, in the MMER for the last six years and says “On top of gaining crucial data for our race management strategy, we also have to rely on solid teamwork. I’m grateful to be able to race not only with my brother, but also our good friend, Rizal. The three of us have had good racing experiences together in a team before during our Formula 3 years, and we know that we can gel well as a team again. Solid teamwork is salient in us achieving reliability to endure the challenge ahead.”

Rizal Ramli

Team MOFAZ Racing completes their driver line-up with Rizal Ramli, who has been an MMER participant very regularly as well as in the Porsche Infeneon Carrera Cup Asia series and is quips that the MMER is one of his favourite race events. :To be racing again with my former Formula 3 team-mates Fairuz and Farriz in Sepang’s MMER is indeed great. This is the opportunity for us to blaze the circuit, whilst strategising for steady driving to last the twelve hours. This year’s MME will begin at midnight, so we have roughly eight hours of cool and temperate weather conditions before the morning sun brightens, which we intend to tap into our advantage.” And perhaps so will everyone else.

Team MOFAZ Racing’s Aston Martin stead is a GT4 Vantage with a 4.7L V8 engine that has been tuned to guzzle RON 97 fuel from a 100 litre FIA-approved ATL bag-type fuel tank that has twin-fuel pumps to help feed the hungry V8.

The engine is connected to a standard 6-speed manual transmission or Sportshift (ASM) transmission thats been fitted with a breather catch tank. It also has a twin-plate Valeo 125mm cera-metallic clutch for added reliability and a lightweight flywheel to allow the engine to access it’s power band more quickly.

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Rear

Besides it being obviously stripped out for this event, its side and rear windows have been replaced with polycarbonate to further reduce its heft that sits on 2.5″ ID Eibach springs and Bilstein adjustable aluminium absorbers thats connected to 18″ magnesium OZ Racing rims covered in Perli racing slicks. Finally, stopping power comes from Aston Martin’s standard four-piston monoblock calipers and uses Pagid RS 29 racing pads.

In race trim, this race car’s kerb weight puts it at 1,350kg (excluding fuel) which is almost equivalent to a fully fueled Proton Waja, but thankfully, it’s V8 engine would do more than sufficiently propel this thoroughbred with eloquent ease around Sepang.

For more information about MOFAZ Racing, please visit www.mofazracing.com, or you may follow their Tweets via Twitter @MOFAZRacing and catch the latest updates on MOFAZ products on FaceBook via MOFAZMedia group page.

Grandstand tickets (RM5) and Paddock Passes (RM100) are available from Sepang Internation Circuit’s ticketing booths.

From WeMotor.com, we wish MOFAZ Racing every chance at success for this coming Sunday!