Malaysian Zulfahmi Khairuddin created history by being the first Malaysian to finish second at the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Priz at the Sepang Circuit yesterday. Zulfahmi was just two corners away from victory before being passed by German Sandro Cortese. This is Zulfahmi’s first ever career podium achievement, and also Malaysia’s first in the World Motorcycle Championships.
The AirAsia-SIC-Ajo rider, who celebrated his 21st birthday on Saturday, sizzled on the tracks by setting a lap record of 2 minutes and 13.885 seconds.
The crowd, all 77,000 of them were ecstatic with Zulfahmi’s win, and were even more thrilled with another Malaysian rider, 17 year old Hafiz from the Petronas Raceline Malaysia team. Hafiz managed to push his way from his 27th grid position, and go all the way up to no.4, despite the rainy weather in the Moto2 race.
Both Zulfahmi and Hafiz will be remembered for producing the greatest day in the history of Malaysian motorsport.
Results:
MotoGP:
1 Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Repsol Honda 29:29.049s
2 Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 29:32.738s
3 Casey Stoner (Aus) Repsol Honda 29:36.193s
Moto2:
1 Alex de Angelis (Rsm) NGM Mobile-Forward Racing-FTR 36:57.793s
2 Anthony West (Aus) QMMF-Speed Up 36:58.503s
3 Gino Rea (Gbr) Federal Oil-Gresini-Suter 36:59.156s
4 Hafizh Syahrin Abdullah (Mas) Petronas Raceline Malaysia-FTR 37:00.734s
Moto3:
1 Sandro Cortese (Ger) Red Bull KTM-Ajo 40:54.123s
2 Mohd Zulfahmi Khairuddin (Mas) AirASia-SIC-Ajo-KTM 40:54.151s
3 Jonas Folger (Ger) Mapfre Aspar-Kalex KTM 40:54.370s
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