Fast their car was, indeed, well, fast enough for a team of Malaysian students from Sekolah Dato’ Abdul Razak to take the gong in the knockout racing challenge in last month’s F1 in Schools World Finals in Singapore, which was held ahead of the Singapore GP.
The group of 17 year old students, Haziq Asyraf Marzuki, Mohamed Hussein Haro, Danel Iman Che Khalib and Wan Faiq Amsyar Wan, participating as a team called Raluca F1, emerged as winners in the knockout racing element in the finals.
In the final, racing against Zer0.9, a collaboration team of Australian and UAE students, Raluca F1 blitzed the Australian/UAE team with a winning time of 1.251 secs to take the honours. Victory for the Malaysians got them a special prize, with F1 in Schools presenting the team with a simulator race seat as a reward for their efforts.
A total of 25 teams from around the world took part in the finals, with 17 awards in different areas up for grabs. An American team, Unitus Racing, was crowned champions when it won the overall F1 in Schools World Finals.
The education programme is aimed at raising awareness of Formula One among students and school children globally through the means of multi-disciplinary challenges associated with the sport. Open to students aged from 9 to 19, its main objective is to help change perceptions of engineering, science and technology by creating a fun and exciting learning environment for young people to develop an informed view about careers in engineering, mathematics, science, Formula One, science, marketing and technology.
The competition inspires students to use IT to learn about physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacturing, branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, leadership, teamwork, media skills and financial strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative and exciting way. Obviously, it worked very well for the Raluca F1 boys.
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congrats SDAR! my old school!
Bright future in F1 if this kids get all the support from government and private sector. well done.
Malaysia Boleh….!!!
Well done to the boys!!
Kudos to the boys, one way or another they make Malaysia proud.
Hope for a bright future for them in automotive industry and motoring sports.
Geeks and nerds, they make the best F1 engineers. Hope we have more of them to sustain continous growth in motorsports.
well done boys!!made me proud of my alma matter!!
coolness!! congrats kids… make sure you guys realize the potential within and make us proud!
best of luck, i hope thy will be nurtured further n not be neglected as thy can be great assets in the future , oso hope thy wil not end up migrating to another country like so many other talents !
Next generation after Ruhaidi Rashid (Sauber Engineer) which is also came from SDAR. Proud to be SDARIAN
and he’s moving to LOTUS next season. Good luck. Me proud too….
“The competition inspires students to use IT to learn about physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacturing, branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, leadership, teamwork, media skills and financial strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative and exciting way.” This really builds the foundation in making motorsports an industry in Malaysia, if only we can really build on it. My thoughts go further – in order to cultivate interest in motorsports this kind of competition should start from primary school. This will help build the interest from a young age, of course with different standards, relevant to their age group. Standard 1-3 could art competition for go-karts, bikes and cars. Standard 3-6 compete in “Cub Prix in Schools” or “Formula BMW in Schools”. Forms 1-3 compete in “MotoGP in Schools” etc. Just some ideas for our Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth & Sports.
there’s quite a number of SDARians here… congrats to RalucaF1!
Berilmu Untuk Berjasa.
btw,ur cikgu hazman is my class & batchmate.hehe
Good direction, no need multi-million R &D budget still gets the job done splendidly.
Aku bangga giler ler kat korang woi!!!! wooohoooo…moga2 terus dibangkitkan Sang Phoenix dari terus berdengkur…yeah!!
Cool boys..
keep up the good effort..
now focus on your SPM… the last lap of your teen circuit…
SDARian wont beat MARESMARTians..
Congrats SDARians!!
Proud to carry our heritage of excellence!!
Go for overall champion next round! Kudos to everyone in the supervision too.
ONCE A SDARIAN ALWAYS A SDARIAN