The round 1 of the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship 2009 is scheduled between 10th & 12th April in Sepang Circuit, Malaysia. In this Asian level Championship two of our Indian riders viz. Preetham Dev Moses and K Rajini representing Team Red Rooster Racing participate in the SuperSport 600 cc category.

The qualifying 1 was held on Friday, the 10th April 2009. The wet track hampered many of the riders. Preetham did not qualify in Q1 while K Rajini clocked 7th fastest with a timing of 1:13.059. In the qualifying 2 held today, Preetham clocked 1:09.904 while Rajini improved his timing to 1:09.985.

The day 1 of the Malaysian Rally Championship (MRC) 2009 which had a record number of 30 entries had to be halted after SS7 due to heavy rains. At the end of day 1, 2008 MRC Champion, Karamjit Singh of the GSR Pennzoil Racing Team was in the lead with a time of 27mins 16 sec. He led Saladin Mazlan, driving a brand new Proton Gen 2, by 2 mins 9 secs. In third place was Indian driver Arjun Rao (co-driver Musa Sherif) with a time of 29 mins 31 secs.

The Rally will continue tomorrow (Sunday) in Cyberjaya but the first car will start at 10.13am instead of 8.43am as previously scheduled. Only two SS will be used tomorrow- SS1 & SS2.