After being a last minute replacement for Hafizh Syahrin in the 2018 Moto2 World Championship, Malaysian racer Zulfahmi Khairuddin announced he is leaving SIC Racing Team after only four races. The termination is by mutual agreement and effective immediately.
Zulfahmi came to SIC Racing Team from two seasons in the Supersport World Championship, where he raced a Kawasaki ZX-6R with Orelac Racing. During the 2018 Moto2 season, Zulfahmi only managed a best of 26th position at the Argentina Grand Prix and retired after nine laps during the last race at Jerez, Spain.
“After the last race in Jerez, I find it very difficult for me to make any sort of improvement in my results since the start of the season. After careful thought and deep discussion with the team, I have decided that it was best for me to end my Moto2 career,” said Zulfahmi.
However, Zulfahmi will still be involved in racing in his current role as the mentor in the SIC-backed ‘Impian ke MotoGP’ programme – a programme to unearth raw talents in two wheeled racing. ” I would like to thank Zulfahmi for his hard work and dedication after four rounds in the championship,” said Datuk Razlan Razali, chief executive officer of SIC.
“I’m aware it was difficult for him to adapt to the super competitive Moto2 championship even with his experience in the World Supersport Championship,” Razali said. “But at that time, Zulfahmi was the available option we had judging from his experience. Although he may not quite be ready physically and mentally to race in Moto2, he took the challenge in his stride and did give his best in each of the rounds,” Razlan continued.
Meanwhile, fellow Malaysian Hafizh Syharin also faced mixed fortunes at the previous MotoGP in Jerez, finishing in 16th position despite injuries sustained whilst training on a bicycle. Hafizh, better known to fans as “El Pescao” or The Fish, has nine points in the MotoGP championship standings.
Get azlan shah to replace zulfahmi
Obvious he is fed up of SIC. Maybe SIC is badly managed or got lots of politics and this gentleman cannot tahan all this.
SIC needs to clean up their act and get better staff and management to run the show. They cannot run a private entity like a GLC…..where lepak and relax is the order of the day
Again u din bother to read. He was thrusted in after Hafizh left but he was too green and out of his depths. He realised that and therefore decided to pull out. Nothing to do with SIC becoz Hafizh was performing when woth them.
Sorry to hear that hes quiting but he probably saw the limits he has reached and it wasnt gud enuff to climb up. At least he remains a mentor and inspiration to all those coming after him.
Sad to see a level headed comment got multiple downvoted by that cybertroll. I’m giving you my Like and I’m calling all my friends & contacts to do so as well. We’re gonna viral this thing and this shit of his will not be tolerated.
Tenkiu for the viral bro Feddy. Truth and justice prevails!
The only fraud is john with now 2300 likes in this post.
We are fed up with your multiple dupes john
john, we all know your dupes and how you “talk” to yourself with fake dupe replies. pls keep our blog clean bro
john is out of a job now. new Government.
Speaking out of 1st hand experience eh? I dun work for any gov but I work against hypocrisy.
We are here to help, Fred! Good comments must shine like a lighthouse in rough seas.
Tenkiu bro Chew!
Thanks Chew! I knew I can count on you guys!
too many dupes by our ex cybertrooper john
Fitnah tu tak bagus tau, kunta.
eh Freddy, your friends who viral this….they did not viral your post and like you? Pretty strange. So they viral and liked john’s post?
Look at the timestamp of the comments please. I didn’t ask them to like my post but some did, as when it came up.
Paul Tan need to do something about fake likes. 1609 likes is pretty obvious
John, can you stop your own fake likes. Every posting you do this. This slows traffic to PT site. We all suffer because you are refreshing the page 1609 times
there many fake like n dislike in PT..
World Record, nearly 2000 likes for 1 comment.
Paul Tan need to establish a username system.,,,to much abuse of the system.
I agree. So that PT can filter out fake dupes like urs
Evident from the above…you got 2218 likes. And you are creating fake dupes to say it has gone viral
I dun stoop to ur levels lar. Just cuz u do it dun mean others do
sorry to hear that zulfahmi but you know your own limit
In China, athletes will never give up no matter what. They will strife and work harder to achieve greater heights.
In China, theres plenty of athletes that din make the grade but u never hear about them.
Good decision by fahmi and SIC. Fortunately we have plenty of existing and upcoming riders that is good enough for that Moto2 seat, unlike other sports that is struggling to find upcoming stars.