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Hi Guys,

There are some vacancies in the Sri Lankan Media Team led by Sean Hameed, to follow the progress of the 3 Sri Lankan 4x4s participating in RFC2009.

Cost per person is US$ 1600 plus Air fare. The vehicles are self drive, and will only experienced drivers in the drivers seat, as transport stages are tricky.

Composition 5 vehicles X 4 Participants.

Sanjay David is joining the Sri-Lankan Media Team.

For further details please contact
1) Sean Hameed - Sean4x4@gmail.com
2) Sanjay David - david.thetraveller@gmail.com

3rd Night Hotel in KL - Vehicle Inspection
4th Night Hotel in JB
5th Night Hotel in JB
6/7th Campsite - 1
8th Re-Grouping - Kahang Town
9-10 Campsite - 2
11-13 Campsite - 3
14th Night Hotel in JB- Awards
15th Night Hotel in KL
16th Depart

Total convoy 4 x vehilcles plus 2 support Vehicles with Campside aides. All campsite meals provided.

This is an alternate way of enjoying RFC, with a little luxury. All special stages are accessible to main convoy except Twilight Zone.

Cheers

Hi guys,

Sanjay & I are here in Johor baru, and today was the first day of prolog, we got ourselves two 4 dr Pajero's to follow the Lankan team. Foundation is already set to have the first Mahendra in RFC next year driven by Sanjay.

The fear of RFC was drastically reduced when he saw the action live.

Will update with some pitures soon

cheers

Sean

Wonderful ! All the best, guys :thumbs up!

Hope you will put up lot of pics of the action.

Hi Guys,

On behalf of Sean Hameed & Sanjay David, I'm uploading the pics.

Regards,

Arka

sean hameed and traveller wishing you all the best for this event! Iam sure next year Mahindra jeep is going to be one of the participants driven by sanjay.

Sanjay way to go man and you are looking smart as usual. Beware of all the chicks around, your 4wd may not work therelol:

holy smokes!!, thats some major offroading stuff. Kudo's to you guys.

Pics from Sean Hameed & Sanjay David.

Wooooowwwww !!!! that is some serious slush/mud off-roading.

Pics from Sean Hameed & Sanjay David.

Pics by Sean Hameed & Sanjay David

Firstly My Sincere Thanks to Arka for posting my pics, we only had a limited window of logging on.

The results as follows:

Johor Rainforest Challenge 2009 − Results

Overall Champion Team 161 (Total : 2860)
(Malaysia − Perak ⁄ Sabah)
Loo Fu Siong ⁄ Edward Benggon

First Runner−up Team 129 (Total : 2679)
(Malaysia − Malacca)
Mervin Lim Wei Shiong ⁄ Lee Beng Loon

Second Runner−up Team 105 (Total : 2406)
(Sri Lanka)
K.M Indika Sanjaya ⁄ Navin Surath Marapana

4th Placing Team 111 (Total : 2356)
(Malaysia − Johor)
Too Chai Beng ⁄ Lee Yit Kiang

5th Placing Team 112 (Total : 2326)
(Malaysia − Johor)
Tee Hong Kiat ⁄ Lee Beng Khoon

6th Placing Team 122 (Total : 2159)
(Malaysia − Johor)
Wong Chen Chuong ⁄ Ho Chin Cherh

7th Placing Team 120 (Total : 2064)
(Malaysia ⁄ Indonesia)
Wilfred Sim Sze Hao ⁄ Sartono

8th Placing Team 108 (Total : 2057)
(Philippines)
Hilario T. Mendiola ⁄ Sergio O. Jamila III

9th Placing Team 139 (Total :1912)
(USA ⁄ Thailand)
Rodney B. Caldwell ⁄ Bundit Samrongkanok

10th Placing Team 121 (Total : 1908)
(Malaysia − Sarawak)
Lau Kah Kung ⁄ Md Syamaizar Ahmad

Under 2,000cc
Champion Team 129 (Total : 2679)
(Malaysia − Malacca)
Mervin Lim Wei Shiong ⁄ Lee Beng Loon

First Runner−up Team 146 (Total : 1844)
(Malaysia − Scoreboard TV3)
Mohamad Fazli Salleh ⁄ Norizham Mahmood

Second Runner−up Team 131 (Total : 1718)
(Malaysia – Kelantan)
Koh Gok Buan ⁄ Che Azimi Che Ibrahim

PTO Winch Award

Overall Champion Team 161(Total : 2860)
(Malaysia − Perak ⁄ Sabah)
Loo Fu Siong ⁄ Edward Benggon

First Runner−up Team 129 (Total : 2679)
(Malaysia − Malacca)
Mervin Lim Wei Shiong ⁄ Lee Beng Loon

Second Runner−up Team 111 (Total : 2356)
(Malaysia − Johor)
Too Chai Beng ⁄ Lee Yit Kiang

Portal Axle Award

Overall Champion Team 161(Total : 2860)
(Malaysia − Perak/Sabah)
Loo Fu Siong ⁄ Edward Benggon

First Runner−up Team 122 (Total : 2159)
(Malaysia − Johor)
Wong Chen Chuong ⁄ Ho Chin Cherh

Second Runner−up Team 143 (Total : 1415)
(Malaysia − Selangor)
Benjamin Chew Lian Cheng ⁄ Dailin Dikin

Modified Buggy Class

Overall Champion Team 123 (Malaysia − Johor)
Chong Swee Lee ⁄ Liong Gong Sang

First Runner−up Team 127 (Malaysia − Kedah)
Tarmizi Kasa ⁄ Ahmad Mustaffa Ghazali

Second Runner−up Team 113 (Malaysia − Johor)
Wong Chor Chan ⁄ Daryl Wong

I am extremely happy that Sri Lanka won 3 rd Overall in the RFC. What is special about this win was we all felt part of it. Especially Sanjay David in our party gave us a hand and kept the morale up in the camp. Also personally, it is a milestone for me in the Sri Lanka 4x4 scene, where we persisted with the equipment we knew, and we went to challenge the global players with knowledge polished locally.

While the trend in Malaysia is to use high powered petrol engines from sports cars with light framed 4x4 vehicles equipped PTO "God" winch, our boys completed in top three with a 2.5 litre turbochrged diesel Land Rover with stock axles and an electric winch. This is enough proof that even the Indian 4x4's such as MM540 and the Gypsy with a little modification, can complete the RFC in a decent ranking when it is in the hands of the right team.

Good luck with your 4x4's, and I Hope to see the first Indian team to take of RFC 2010. Count on my 100% support for Team India.

Congrats to Team Sri Lanka on getting third place overall at the RFC 2009 clap:

[COLOR=black]Congrats Srilankan Team and best of luck for next year RFC[/COLOR]

[COLOR=black]Regards,[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]Mahendran[/COLOR]