myKart Mega Mad Endurance Race 2009

On the gloomy day of 19th December 2009, Team Kookaburra Racing joined venture with Kegani Motorsports and Ultra Racing for the myKart Mega Mad Endurance Race 2009 at City Karting Shah Alam. The team aptly named, 'Team Kegani Kookaburra Ultra Racing' consisted of racers Jeffrey Ewe, Stephen Kok, Kenny Lee, Jason Lu, Tung Wei Hsiao and Julian together with pit and team management by Kegani Motorsports, Simon Chang and Redd CH.

The race consists of 8 hours endurance race with 6 drivers, rain or shine. The start of the race was "Le Mans" style which was very new to the racing scene in Malaysia. The karts were balloted and comes with new Comer 80cc 2-stroke engines, new racing slicks, new brake pads, new chain and CRG chassis.

Most part of the race was filled with heavy year end downpour. Due to the luck of the draw, the team's kart had a few kart problems which was enough to put it to last place. The team worked hard to catch up back the ranks and only managed 12th out of 14 teams which participated.

Below are some of the pictures from the event.

Top Gear Malaysia Nov 09

Kookaburra Racing Team efforts to the Sepang 1000km Race 2010 is featured in the Top Gear Malaysia, November 2009 issue, together with sponsor, Elson Tong of Ultra Racing, and racing partner, Kenny Lee @ Kegani Autotech.

Got get the issue now!

See the article here.

HPC Track Day on 4th Oct 2009

Team Kookaburra Racing was present at the HPC Track Day on the 4th of October 2009 held in the Sepang International Circuit, South Track. Jeffrey Ewe, Kenny Hwang and Stephen Kok supported HPC as track driving instructors.

The team also brought the Toyota Levin AE101 track car to be showcased. Also, the Levin did many runs on track giving taxi rides to interested folks and also to test out the new Ultra Racing chassis strengthening bars added to the car.

Levin AE101 Party

On the 3rd of September 2009, Team Kookaburra Racing had a small party at the Kookaburra Racing HQ in Puchong to celebrate the team's race car with family and friends, as well as in conjunction with the Chinese Hungry Ghost festival.

The race car, Toyota Levin AE101, was on display for guests of the party to see. Sumptuous food was provided by Kenny Hwang, which included his famous Asam Laksa.

More features on the race car at : KookaburraRaceCars.blogspot.com

Stephen Supports MME 2009

As Team Kookaburra Racing did not participate in this Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race, Stephen Kok supported as pit crew for Kegani Autotech's driver Kenny Lee who was the main driver for the team, Wing Hin Motorsports, which joined venture with Kegani Autotech, TRD and Trial. The MME was held on the 8th of August 2009 at the Sepang International Circuit.

Wing Hin Motorsports fielded a race prepped Toyota Altezza for Class A2. However, the car DNF in the final 2 hours of the race.

Here are some pictures from the event (pictures belong to the respective photographers and owners).

The team pit - Wing Hin Motorsports


Stephen help prep the special prep race car Altezza before the start of the race


The whole team - principle, management, drivers, mechanics, pit crew, supporters etc


Stephen Kok aka Stevo poking fun together with team race queens (L-R): Peggy Yong, Natalie Fong and Sarah Yap


Race driver, Kenny Lee, flanked by the race queens (L-R): Peggy, Natalie and Sarah.


Stephen with the other crew and driver, Kenny Lee on the grid before the start of the race.

Kookaburra Racing Race Cars

Today marks the launch of an additional Kookaburra Racing blog known as Kookaburra Racing Race Cars. This site will feature the latest updates and information on all the team's cars and their progress and updates. Information on race seat rentals, car rentals and team management will be the highlight of the site as well.

Do check out : http://www.KookaburraRaceCars.blogspot.com

Kenny Wins Ironman Race 2009

My-kart organizes the very first Ironman 2009 race at the City Karting Shah Alam kart circuit on the 21st of June 2009. The race was separated by 2 categories - K1 (125cc) and K2 (100cc) which comprises of the race format of 10 mins qualifying, 30 mins Ironman feature race and 10 laps sprint race.

Team Kookaburra Racing's Kenny Hwang and Stephen Kok participated in the K2 category which comprises of 15 racers. After the kart ballotting and kart setup, qualifying sessions began shortly. Kenny qualified a spectacular 5th position on the grid while Stephen struggled with his kart which lacked grip and braking to qualify poorly at 13th.

Sepang 1000km Race 2009 (S1k)

This year, after much deliberation, 2 members of Team Kookaburra Racing decided against racing in the very first Sepang 1000km Race held at Sepang International Circuit due to certain prior commitments. Instead, the team decided to participate as pit crew members to support our racing associates and friends at HPC and Kegani Autotech. Kenny Hwang was a race car refueller and Stephen Kok supported as tyre change specialist. Also, brought in a new kid on the block, Ah Ping to help in tyre change. It was a fantastic experience for both Kenny and Stephen and both are ready to race in next year's 1000km Race.

Team HPC Kegani fielded 3 cars in the S1k on 4-6 June 2009. A Celica in Class 1; A Levin AE111 and SEG AE101 in Class 2. The SEG suffered some problems early in the race and had to be benched after 1 hour. The Levin was leading the race most of the time and even ahead of Class 1 cars. And yet had to break down at the last hour of the race. Though unfortunate, the Celica managed to finish 6th in class and 10th overall.

The full race results can be obtained here.

Some pictures below.


Kenny and Stephen with the race drivers, Ramsey,
Brian and Jin on the HPC Celica


All 3 cars lined up in front of Pit 22


The Kegani Levin and SEG


Kenny and Stephen having a light moment with
Super GT race queens, Nana Shibata and Sana Yuuki

MCA Segambut Endurance Race 22 Mar 09

Team Kookaburra Racing fielded a 2 man team for the MCA Segambut Youth Division Endurance Race 2009 "Race Towards Unity" held in City Karting Shah Alam track. An event organized by the MCA Segambut Youth Division which also attracted many sponsors.

VIPs supporting the event includes MCA's Ling Hee Keat, Daniel Ling and Chew Lian Keng. Alex Yong, former Malaysian F1/A1 driver was present to help officiate the race together with Mohd Afiq (2008 AMM Go Kart Champion).

A total of 27 teams participated in the race which consists of a practise/qualifying round of 20 minutes and the endurance race of 70 minutes with 3 mandatory pit stops.

Kenny Hwang and Stephen Kok lead the charge for Kookaburra Racing in this go kart endurance race. The team qualified 3rd overall in the qualifying round. In the race proper, Kookaburra Racing managed to come up to 1st placing at one stage of the race but ended the race in a hard earned 2nd place.

This is indeed a great result for Kookaburra Racing and more to come in the near future of racing!

Some photos from the event here:


Kenny preparing to start the race


Kenny lines up a quick overtaking move


Stephen overtakes quickily from the outside


2nd Place : Stephen and Kenny with their prize


2nd-1st-3rd winners : Kookaburra Racing, Vertical Speed and Aliens Racing

City Karting 125cc Race Series Rd 1 (21 Mar 09)

On a nice Saturday afternoon, City Karting Shah Alam ran a 125cc Race Series kart race which consists of 1 qualifying, 3 heats of 8 laps each and 1 final of 10 laps. The race attracted a field of 20 kart owners with 125cc kart engines ranging from Rotax Max, Rok and Parilla.

My-Kart Race Series : 17 Jan 09

The first My-Kart Race Series of the 2009 season started on 17th January 2009 at Shah Alam Stadium Kart Circuit early in the morning. The race actually consisted of 2 qualifying and 1 final. Kenny Hwang (Zoggee) and Stephen Kok (Stevo) raced in the K2 category (100cc).

Kenny and Stephen who raced in the K2 category with the 100cc karts being new engines had some initial technical issues but that was sorted out quickily and they qualified 11th and 9th respectively. At the finals, Stephen raced to the finishing line and picked up 9th position while Zoggee took 14th. Both Kenny and Stephen will be making a bigger impression in the coming 2nd race of the season in February.

For detail My-Kart race results, please go here : K1 and K2

TRD Toyota Vios Media Test Drive

The new TRD Toyota Vios media test drive day was underway at Sepang International Circuit on 9 Jan 2009. Finally the TRD spec-ed Vios was put to the test on the SIC race track by media folks.

To have a safe track/media event, there were professional track instructors on standby to support the running of the cars on track by the journalists. Kenny Hwang and Stephen Kok was the HPC Instructors in-support of the event and to guide journalists testing the car.

The TRD Toyota Vios


L-R: Stephen Kok, Nattawuth (TRD Race Driver), Kenny Hwang and Jason Loo

Happy New Year 2009!

Team KooKaburra Racing would like to wish all you loyal readers, fans and supporters a very happy new year! Keep on racing and don't forget the fun in doing so! See you in this year's MME 2009!