Team TeleVAS Racing Charity Go-Kart Enduro (24 July 2010)

A special event was held by Team TeleVAS Racing (TTR) with the sole purpose of raising funds for Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-kanak Cacat Taman Megah (PPKKCTM) and a slew of Corporate Companies, Go-Kart enthusiasts and local celebrities attended the fun-filled morning.

The clouds were hovering thickly above as Team WeMotorers rendezvoused at City Karting Go-Kart Track in Shah Alam. Izwan, Hasrul, Alex Tan and yours truely attended the 1-hour Endurance race in order to lend a helping hand in raising funds for the Handicapped and Disabled Children of Taman Megah PJ.

Team WeMotorers (from left to right): Izwan, Hasrul, Jay & Alex

Taman Megah’s Handicapped and Disabled Children’s Home or Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah (PPKKCTM) is a home that takes care of disabled and underprivileged children. PPKKCTM houses over 100 children and some adults with various disabilities. There are also normal children who come from broken, abused or single parent backgrounds. Due to the growing number of children coming in, the Home is now expanding.

Outback Steakhouse was present to provide the food for our hungry mouths, as well as Rossington Water, KLIA Premier Holdings, UNOS, Sisma Auto, Dell Cyberjaya, WeMotor.com and ofcourse TeleVAS Holdings.

Mark Ian Timms giving the safety briefing

As the registrations closed, a safety briefing session followed, which also outlined the format and rules of the event:

- 15 minute practice round and qualifying session.

- 1 hour Endurance race.

- Each of the four (4) karters must race within the stipulated 1-hour session.

- No driver changes can be made within the last 15mis of the race.

Each team comprised of four drivers and there were more than twenty teams, who generously donated RM1,500 to PPKKCTM, and each team was provided an 80cc kart to see who would come out top-dog.

Team WeMotorers receiving our medals and certificates (from left to right): Izwan, Hasrul, Jay & Alex

Team WeMotorer’s Alex Tan went up against tough competition to end the 15min qualifying session in 12th with a best lap time of 1min 22.35s. However, after Alex was able to acclimatize to our ramdomly picked kart #3, Team WeMotorers was able to post a best time of 1min 20.19s in the 9th lap and had moved up the order into 10th place.

However, at the end of the 1 hour karting session, we had finished 1 place down from where we started, in 13th position. Considering it was all out of fun, we had a blast just having a little taste of what an open-wheeled endurance race felt like (the driver changes, on-track battles, the sweet smell of exhaust fumes) and letting loose the “Schumi” inside all of us in Team WeMotorers left us jubilating for the rest of the day.

More importantly, to add to the jubilations, it was certainly priceless to watch the children of PPKKCTM enjoy a wonderful ride around City Karting’s go-kart track in a 2-seater kart at speed and emerging with a great big smile on their faces. It’s one thing to bring happiness to the people you know around you, but to bring happiness to underprivileged children is simply priceless!

At the end of the day, no one left as winners or loosers, everyone obtained a prize and a certificate as remembrance for our contributions to a noble cause and a little spice, the deliciously looking Daphne Iking helped to present the medals and trophies for this momentous occasion.

WeMotor.com would like to commend TTR for organizing a fantastic weekend and to City Karting Go-Kart for providing the venue in allowing all of this to happen, and so, on behalf of the privileged and underprivileged, a very warm and heartfelt ‘Thank you!’ goes out to the both of them for making it such a memorable occasion.