I won! I won! First place baby! Friday, 10th October 2008.
On my way to pay my house hold bills at the Pos Office in JJ Bukit Tinggi and i came across this ING Booth in the center court. There were many games to play and compete. First Nintendo Wii Boxing Challenge. Contestants must KO the AI player in the fastest time to win. I tried that and got KO by the cartoon b***h boxer.
Second i tried my hands on the F1 racing computer game. Racers must register and finish a lap. At the end of the day, the fastest driver will be anounce. I got on the comfy seats and hit the throttle. After hard lefts and rights turns i clock at 31 seconds. Not good enough cause someone else got 28 secs earlier. The lovely promoter then gave me a second chance. This time i clocked 27.20seconds. That landed me in the first place. Lucky for me the record was able to defended it self for the rest of the day. I won! The prize? A ING RENAULT F1 cap.
Next. the ING Renault F1 Jaya Jusco Bukit Tinggi RC GP. With months of RC Helis and RC Cars under my belt. I decided to give it a try. Studied the track and test drive the car for 5 minutes. It was a cheap low budget RC car. Slow as hell, nothing compare to my RC BMW at home. It was a piece of cake. I registered as a contestant and waited for the race. the moment finally came and the organizers ask all the "drivers" to stand by. Then they explain to everyone how the race will be categorize. 2 race for juniors aged 11 and below. 2 race for aged 21 and below and the seniors race( i am in this cat).
I stood and watch the races before mine. It was filled with crashes and bangs. the winners somehow seems to always be the slowest driver. Very much like my prev Go-karting races when i was at Shell, patience was the key.
Then it was my turn to race with 5 other senior racers. They all look like they had years of RC experience except for one pregnant lady. It was to my surprise that the organizers change the slow RC cars with high power high tech cars. very much faster and advanced then my RC BMW. DAMN! Somehow the other racers seem to knew about this. I guess they were there early. Lucky again for me, i was given a test lap. Its was extremely hard to control. the car kept spinning off the track but no time to complain. The organizers ordered all cars to position at the starting line before i could even do any adjustments. I just hope that everyone crash at the first corner of the race. That was my only chance of winning.
Racers READY! ....... GO!
I held back on the throttle for a second so that everyone would be in front of me and i hope they crash on the the first turn... and they didn't! DAMN! I was last. Second corner was even worst, i crash and everyone was getting ready for the third corner by the time i recovered. But luck shines on me when all the other racers crash into turn four. LOL. I took every advantage out of this. Got myself into second place. i tot i should take things cool and settle for second place till the end. Again the unexpected happen to me. The leading car misjudge a turn and crash right in front of me in the last corner. I brake hard but the guy behind me just slam into my ass. It was an impact so hard that pieces broke off flying into the track. My car ended in a backwards position and was impossible to move forward. at this time 2 cars pass me racing for the checked flag. They were fighting hard together slowing each other down. I slammed on the reverse gear and speed down the straight road from behind. Guess what, i over took the two guys in front and finish FIRST with the rear of the car!!! LOL. The crowd in JJ Bukit Tinggi was laughing their head off. I was the Champion. The race announcer was screaming.... " two drivers are neck to neck and ... OMG here come Chew backward from behind.... And he just storm to the checked flag... BACKWARDS!!! What a RACE! What a Race!"
For first place in the seniors race. A scale model of the Ranault F1 car from Hot Wheels.
... And you think this kinda things only happen in American Hollywood movies?
Too Fast too Furious baby. and i rock it... backwards. Sorry to the organisers as three RM 400++ RC cars were badly damage in this race. My car happen to be the worst.
