Founded | 2003 |
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Base | Alor Gajah, Melaka |
Current series | Sepang 1000 km |
Former series | Merdeka Millennium Endurance Malaysia Championship Series |
Honda Malaysia Racing Team is an auto racing team from Malaysia establish in 2003 by Honda Malaysia to compete in Merdeka Millennium Endurance race, currently competing in the Sepang 1000 km. Interesting enough, the team members are mostly Honda Malaysia's staffs to encourage them to practise the Honda's Challenging Spirit philosophy. They had no experience in racing and were trained from a zero to a hero.
Between year 2003 to 2007, the team received technical guidance from Mugen Motorsports [1] and since 2008 the team became an independent Malaysian team with advisers from Japan.
The team has won Merdeka Millennium Endurance Class A five times in a row from 2003 to 2007, [2] it also won the race overall in 2004.
Year | Car | No | Drivers | Class | Laps | Class Pos. | Pos. |
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2003 | Honda Integra Type R | 26 | Kunimitsu Takahashi Hidetoshi Mitsusada Hiroki Katoh | A | 261 | 1st | 3rd |
Honda Integra Type R | 28 | Lo Ka Chun Lo Ka Fai Ng Kok Chin | A | 254 | 3rd | 6th | |
2004 | Honda Civic | 26 | Kunimitsu Takahashi Hidetoshi Mitsusada Tommy Lee | A | 260 | 3rd | 3rd |
Honda Civic | 27 | Eddie Liew Farriz Fauzy Hiroki Katoh | A | 265 | 1st | 1st | |
2005 | Honda Civic | 26 | Kunimitsu Takahashi Ryo Michigami Tommy Lee | A | 253 | 4th | 8th |
Honda Civic | 27 | Eddie Liew Farriz Fauzy Hiroki Katoh | A | 278 | 1st | 2nd | |
2006 | Honda Civic | 26 | Kunimitsu Takahashi Shinya Hosokawa Rueben Wong | A | 209 | 8th | 41st |
Honda Civic | 27 | Eddie Liew Farriz Fauzy Hiroki Katoh | A | 258 | 1st | 4th | |
2007 | Honda Civic Type R | 26 | Aaron Lim Rueben Wong Fahrizal Hasan | A | 282 | 2nd | 3rd |
Honda Civic Type R | 27 | Eddie Liew Hiroki Katoh Shinya Hosokawa | A | 283 | 1st | 2nd | |
2008 | Honda Civic Type R | 26 | Rueben Wong Fahrizal Hasan Faisal Asri | A | 252 | 9th | 23rd |
Honda Civic Type R | 27 | Eddie Liew Aaron Lim Victor Cheong | A | 267 | 6th | 18th | |
2009 | Honda Civic Type R | 27 | Eddie Liew Aaron Lim Rueben Wong | A2 | 278 | 2nd | 8th |
2010 | Honda Civic Type R | 27 | Eddie Liew Aaron Lim Rueben Wong | TP | 281 | 1st | 8th |
Year | Car | Drivers | Laps | Pos. |
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2012 | Honda Jazz | Tengku Ezan Ley Farriz Fauzy | 177 | 5th |
Honda Jazz | Aaron Lim Eddie Liew | 140 | 20th | |
2013 | Honda Jazz | Aaron Lim Eddie Liew | 181 | 1st |
Honda Jazz | Tengku Ezan Ley Farriz Fauzy | 167 | 9th | |
2014 | Honda Jazz | Aaron Lim Eddie Liew | 180 | 3rd |
Honda City | Farriz Fauzy Alif Hamdan | 177 | 4th | |
Honda Jazz | Jeff Tan Zhong Zheng Mohd Henzee Hamzah | 172 | 6th | |
2015 | Honda City | Aaron Lim Farriz Fauzy | 181 | 1st [3] |
2016 | Honda Jazz | Aaron Lim Farriz Fauzy | 180 | 2nd |
2017 | Honda Jazz | Aaron Lim Farriz Fauzy | 142 | DNF |
Honda City | Mark Darwin Ahmad Akid Noor | 127 | 26th | |
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