Team Review:
A long, tough triple header weekend at Sepang Circuit for TSS The Super Series, headlined by the championship’s first ever night race. That race was action packed and eventually handed a 1-2 victory to B-Quik Absolute Racing.
Unusually though, there were three races over the past weekend due to a postponed race from the previous round being squeezed into the programme. That was held last Friday morning and it was a real thriller to get this long weekend of racing underway in style.
After a compromised qualifying (which was carried over from the last round) the team was very pleased to show strong race pace with most of the cars moving up the order to give us an excellent 2-3-4 finish, three cars on the podium and a big helping of Teams’ championship points.
First car home was the #62 Audi shared by Akash Nandy and Eshan Pieris and they were in stunning form, moving up from P4 on the grid to bag the runners up spot. They were just three seconds ahead of Vincent Lin and Huang Ruohan in the #25A Audi, the Chinese duo also enjoying a fine race on their first time together since late last year when they initially joined the team. They also won the GT3 AM class.
The third Audi on the podium, in fourth place, was the #37 shared by Deng Yi and Sandy Stuvik, who also ran strongly to collect more points.
Seventh went to a new pairing, Henk Kiks and Markus Winkelhock in the #27 Audi. The German superstar only arrived the night before and his first time in the car this weekend was the installation lap as the grid formed up! He said that’s the first time in his career that he’s ever done that!
However, when you have that family name you don’t expect to need too much acclimatisation and he duly went through the field like a knife through butter in the early stages to climb up to P2 before the stops.
In Super Car GT4 Erwin de Smit and Sathaporn Veerachue did a cool, calm and collected job to plant the #26 Cayman on the GT4 AM podium.
Then it was onto the headline race on Saturday night.
At just after seven thirty when the lights went green at Sepang Circuit, TSS entered a into new chapter with it’s first ever night race and B-Quik Absolute Racing etched its name into the record books with a 1-2 finish.
Lin and Huang in the #25A Audi drove an inch perfect race in the floodlit conditions, calmly dealing with late race rain to nail down a sensational win.
They were followed over the line by the #37 Audi shared by Deng and Stuvik who took second place.
Those two crews actually completed the final half dozen laps behind the Safety Car which was deployed following a bizarre incident on the run up to Turn 9 that eliminated three of the team’s cars in one fell swoop.
The weekend’s new entry, the #5 Audi shared by Aaron Lim and Haziq Oh was a non starter due to a technical issue but it was ready to go in the final race.
That final race on Sunday gave us the least pickings of the weekend but we were still able to put two cars on the podium with the #62 shared by Nandy and Pieris in fourth place while the #7 of Deng/Stuvik next up rounded out a very consistent weekend of a podium finish in each race for that crew.
Comfortably finishing inside the top ten, Kiks and Winkelhock came home in eighth, while the previous day’s winners, Lin and Ruohan, were next up to also take second place in GT3 AM.
Lim and Oh, on their delayed debut in the series following a non start the day before, enjoyed a good race and made it onto the GT3 AM podium in third as well as coming home eleventh overall.
The #26 Cayman was a non starter due to damage incurred the previous day.
Now we head back to Bangkok, the Teams’ championship lead intact, and there is a long countdown before the final race of the year comes up in December.
