Afiq Ikhwan Dominates Silverstone

September 10, 2012
Afiq Ikhwan has returned to form, making a clean sweep of wins, unchallenged, at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit this weekend for JK Racing Asia Series. After winning the first race on Satureday, Ikhwan claimed his second win, once again from pole, setting the record straight that he is still very much a fierce competitor in the Series.

In Round 9, Afiq won the race with a 3.329 seconds margin. He completed ten laps of the 5.901km circuit pulling away right from the start, opening up a gap of more than five seconds in the early part of the race. Afiq also set the fastest lap of the day when he completed lap four in 2:10.697.

On Sunday 8 Sep 2012 race, Afiq claimed his second win, once again from pole with a time of 22.03.548 of the 10 laps race without much competition from the other drivers.
 

Afiq Ikhwan Takes Two Poles At Silverstone

September 10, 2012
Afiq Ikhwan clocked the two best times in the qualifying session for Rounds 9 & 10 at the historic Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit on Friday 7 September 2012. Afiq clocked the best time of 2.09.596 which won him the pole position for Round 9 and the second best time of 2.09.614 won him the pole position for Round 10.

The Petronas backed Meritus.GP driver looks to be back on form after a difficult season so far that has left him fourth in the points table.With more than half of a second advan...
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Afiq Ikhwan Dominates in Singapore

September 27, 2011
Afiq Ikhwan Yazid continues his winning streak by winning both the Rounds 11 & 12 of the JK Racing Asia Series 2011 hosted by Singapore GP making it 6 in a row. In Sentul ndonesia Afiq won all the 4 rounds of the JK Asia Racing Series with record breaking performance where he broke the Qualifying Record set in 2008 Sean McDough and also the Race record set in 2009 by Rio Haryanto. , Afiq Ikhwan Yazid, showed his strength at the Singapore event and  finished on top of the time sheet with a bes...

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Afiq Ikhwan Dominates In Indonesia

August 17, 2011



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t was a perfect weekend weekend for Afiq Ikhwan when he dominated all four rounds of the JK Racing Asia Series at Sentul International Circuit. The Indonesian circuit seemed to be his lucky charm as he claimed his first win and went on to complete all four races with wins. Afiq Ikhwan also 
beat the Series record at the circuit to claim pole position for JK Racing Asia Series round 7. His time of 1:30.918, beat the qualifying lap record held by Sean McDonagh who set the record back in 2008 b...


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Afiq And Akash Secure Two More Podiums For Consistent Meritus.GP

May 31, 2011


SEPANG (May 28, 2011) – Mohd Afiq Ikhwan and Akash Nandy, from www.Meritus.GP, performed remarkably to secure podium positions in Round 3 and 4 of the JK Racing Asia Series at the Sepang Circuit here today to prove the team’s superior consistency this season.

Meritus.GP, who have PETRONAS as its key sponsor, have won four podiums in four rounds of the JK Racing Asia Series and appear poised to continue their outstanding performances in the remaining two rounds (Round 5 and 6) tomorr...


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JKRAS Round 1

May 30, 2011
The Round 1 & 2 of the JKRAS was run as a supporting event to the Malaysian Grand Prix. In qualifying the best 2 qualifying times determine the grids for Round 1 & 2.

It was a very close qualifying when the top 3 drivers were separated with a tenth of a second.  The top 3 qualifiers were

1. Lucas Auer - 2.11.643 (1st best time) & 2.11.677 (2nd best time)
2. Nabil Jefri - 2.11.744 (1st best time) & 2.22.767 (2nd best time)
3. Afiq Yazid - 2.22.747 (1st best time) & 2.11.750 (2nd best time)

Afiq sco...
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MeritusGP announce Petronas As Sponsor

April 4, 2011
Kuala Lumpur 4th April 2011: MeritusGP has announced PETRONAS as their key sponsor. The iconic petroleum brand uses the sport to promote and win international brand loyalty, complimenting their visionary global commercial efforts by supporting the development of the local motorsport industry.

The relationship with PETRONAS will see the red MeritusGP cars displaying the PETRONAS Syntium logos in the JK series, which supports the Petronas Malaysian F1GP; the JK series has sixteen additional race...
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It's Getting Tough

March 17, 2011
The Last testing that was held from 7-10 March 2011, saw that drivers from other teams had improved and are catching up. Afiq was second best overall to Lucas Auer of Eurointernational. Earlier testing Afiq dominates by being on the top of the time sheet 8 out of 10 sessions.

The last sets of testing saw Afiq's dominant diminished. Driver from other team like Petronas have also improved and at times better Afiq's testing times. The last set of testing also saw lots of new tires being used by m...
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Afiq Ihkwan Tops The Time Sheets For The 10th Time

March 2, 2011
It was all good for Meritus and Afiq Ikhwan when Afiq Ikhwan topped the  time sheet again for the 10th time out of 12 sessions. Due to the rain yesterday the track has been a litlle slower than it used to be. Afiq Ikhwan completed the 4 sessions testing today ahead of his rivals at all the sessions. Afiq Ikhwan was not on track yesterday at 4th session and he was 2nd when Richard Bradley was faster by 0.007 sec in one of the session at the 1st day of testing this week.

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Testing Resume With Wet Tires And Afiq Set The Pace

March 1, 2011
Mar 1, 2011 : Meritus-GP resume their testing in preparation for the new JK Racing Asia Series at Sepang F1 Circuit with Malaysian driver Afiq Ikhwan. The team had the opportunity to test the JK tires as a result of a heavy early morning downpour at the circuit.  Team Meritus-GP was delighted with the result when Afiq Ikhwan set the pace in the wet tires 0.5 sec ahead of Eurasia driver Richard Bradley who had an outstanding performance at last years Formula BMW Pacific Championship.

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