Afiq Ikhwan Dominates in Singapore
Posted by Mohamad Afiq on Tuesday, September 27, 2011



In Race 1 (Round 11), Afiq Ikhwan managed to pull a gap close to 4 sec but the advantage diminished when an incident forced the Safety Car to be on the track. After the race was restarted Afiq maintain his lead from Nabil and the hard charging Lucas Auer. A mistake made by Nabil allowed Lucas to take the 2nd position. Few laps, another incident happened involving Raj Bharat which call for the Safety Car to be on track. Afiq Ikhwan managed to maintain his focus and went to take the top podium spot with Lucas coming 2nd and Nabil 3rd.
Ikhwan continued his winning drive in Race 2 (Round 12) and was followed closely by compatriot Nabil Jefri. Afiq Ikhwan kept his cool and was able to control the race. Similar to the earlier race the Safety car was deployed twice at Lap 3 and later lap 6. Lucas Auer drove from the 9th spot and was 2nd when the when the Safety car was called in. During this safety car period Lucas has a technical fault on his car and was shown the black and orange flag forcing him to come in to rectify the problem.
After the restart, ikhwan managed to pull a gap from Nabil who was then 2nd and finished the race almost a second ahead of Nabil and Duvashen who came 3rd.
With the excellent result Afiq Ikhwan has now close the gap to the leader Lucas Auer to only 9 points.