Fiji Sun

Fingers Crossed for Better Weather Tomorrow

- By Raizal Haniff Haniff is the president of Fiji Motorsport­s Associatio­n.

We have made it a free entry for ladies to come and race tomorrow. We hope to get more female racers in years to come and that is why their entry is free.

Bulavinaka everyone. Welcome again to our umn. We are getting ready for the Pacific Energy drag race for tomorrow even though the weather is not looking favourable today. However, we are hoping that it gets clear tomorrow morning.

Please be reminded that we colwill make the official confirmati­on tomorrow at 8am on our Facebook page.

Apart from that, some of the big names for tomorrow’s race have confirmed their participat­ion, Fijis fastest street legal car owner Sandeep Prakash in his Subaru STI and also in attendance will also be Satend Prasad in his Evo and Zubed Ali as well in his Subaru . We are expecting close to 40 cars to take part. This is the average number of cars we had throughout this year and we expect the same figure tomorrow.

We are also having a racer all the way from Labasa to take part in the event tomorrow.

He has been preparing very well for the last two months and this is the second time he has travelled to Suva from Labasa to take part. We are expecting him to do some good timing.

Aneez Khan who has been showing some driving skills will be back with his car tomorrow.

His fellow club member Abhikash Nath has been doing some impressive runs this season and he should

better event.

West boys in particular Anel Anendra Datt in his Skyline have done some mods and had retune the ecu in his car.

For the season, we will try to finish off with two more racers before the year ends.

This means we will have two races next month.

We are also requesting ladies to come in full force and this year his time in tomorrow’s

we have four female drivers taking part and we want more female racers taking part in tomorrow’s event.

We have made it a free entry for ladies to come and race tomorrow. We hope to get more female racers in years to come and that is why their entry is free.

We are encouragin­g race car drivers to come to the track early at 8.30am. We will close the entry at 10.30am.

In the last event, we had to turn away nine cars as they were late so please be on time.

Advice

As we all know that speeding is the major cause of accidents in Fiji so please follow speed limits.

Sometimes drivers try to avoid potholes and they lose control of their vehicles and cause accidents.

Please follow road rules especially in this rainy season

■Raiza●

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 ??  ?? Race cars line up at the starting point during a drag race.
Race cars line up at the starting point during a drag race.

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