Suruth & Lee win Singapore Inv. Challenge

The weekend just gone, saw the 2007 running of the Singapore Invitational Challenge, held at the East Coast Park Raceway. The racing was divided into 2 classes with the vast majority of racers running 1/10th scale, however the 1/8th scale class had plenty of top drivers and in qualifying the fastest of those was Mugen driver Meen Vejrak, from Thailand, that took the TQ for this class, while the 1/10th TQ went to Kyosho racer Kelvin Yong. In the 1/8th scale final the pole man Meen ran into some problems that dropped him down the order, leaving Serpent racer Suruth to take the win by 7 laps from Mugen driver Nelson Lee in 2nd, while another Mugen, that of Tay Wui Kiat, was 3rd. Things were a bit closer in the 1/10th scale final, but again there was problems for the pole sitter, Kelvin Yong ending his race in 5th, while Kyosho race Philip Lee took the win by less than a lap from Meen Vejrak in 2nd and Charlee Phutiyotin in 3rd.

View the final positions here…

1/8th scale:
1. Suruth – 161L 52:13.026
2. Nelson Lee – 154L 52:04.061
3. Tay Wui Kiat – 145L 52:09.465
4. Meen Vejrak – 119L 50:00.667
5. Nick Kuan – 102L 48:03.998
6. Edwin Luhur – 96L 38:19.876
7. Arya Ridho – 74L 52:11.765
8. Anthony Wee – 60L 20:02.439
9. Glenn Phuah – 37L 13:20.712
10. Joe Hwee – 14L 06:24.730

1/10th scale:
1. Philip Lee – 60L 20:20.8
2. Meen Vejrak – 59L 20:15.3
3. Charlee Phutiyotin – 59L 20:19.3
4. Erwin Luhur – 59L 20:24.4
5. Kelvin Yong – 58L 19:56.7
6. Andrew Chin – 57L 20:22.2
7. Hj.Irman – 54L 20:23.0
8. Nelson Lee – 54L 20:30.8
9. Ben Seet – 49L 20:12.1
10. Daryl Yeo – 36L 13:04.9

View lots of images from the event here.

Source: SG Challenge [2007sgchallenge.blogspot.com]