The high cost to rent racing circuits is a reason why car enthusiasts
opt to hold illegal races on highways, a member of a car club said amid public
anger over a road race involving Perodua Myvi cars which killed a family of
three, including a seven-month old baby.
Malaysia Mini Cooper Club advisor Datuk Ahmad Nordin Abu Bakar said
motor sports fans who were from low and middle-income groups felt aggrieved
when seeing the well-to-do able to enjoy motor sports through legitimate ways.
"There is no cheap race track here. At the Sepang (circuit), it is
expensive and hard to reserve. So they have no other place and use public
roads," he said in an interview. There are other racing venues, however, at Bukit Sagor in Teluk Intan,
in Malacca and Johor, he added. Illegal race for Myvi.
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The
high cost to rent racing circuits is a reason why car enthusiasts opt
to hold illegal races on highways, a member of a car club said amid
public anger over a road race involving Perodua Myvi cars which killed a
family of three, including a seven-month old baby.
Malaysia Mini Cooper Club advisor Datuk Ahmad Nordin Abu Bakar said motor sports fans who were from low and middle-income groups felt aggrieved when seeing the well-to-do able to enjoy motor sports through legitimate ways.
"There is no cheap race track here. At the Sepang (circuit), it is expensive and hard to reserve. So they have no other place and use public roads," he said in an interview.
There are other racing venues, however, at Bukit Sagor in Teluk Intan, in Malacca and Johor, he added.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/after-fatal-myvi-crash-motoring-clubs-defend-themselves-saying-tracks-cater#sthash.0TkfZB4r.dpuf
Malaysia Mini Cooper Club advisor Datuk Ahmad Nordin Abu Bakar said motor sports fans who were from low and middle-income groups felt aggrieved when seeing the well-to-do able to enjoy motor sports through legitimate ways.
"There is no cheap race track here. At the Sepang (circuit), it is expensive and hard to reserve. So they have no other place and use public roads," he said in an interview.
There are other racing venues, however, at Bukit Sagor in Teluk Intan, in Malacca and Johor, he added.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/after-fatal-myvi-crash-motoring-clubs-defend-themselves-saying-tracks-cater#sthash.0TkfZB4r.dpuf
The
high cost to rent racing circuits is a reason why car enthusiasts opt
to hold illegal races on highways, a member of a car club said amid
public anger over a road race involving Perodua Myvi cars which killed a
family of three, including a seven-month old baby.
Malaysia Mini Cooper Club advisor Datuk Ahmad Nordin Abu Bakar said motor sports fans who were from low and middle-income groups felt aggrieved when seeing the well-to-do able to enjoy motor sports through legitimate ways.
"There is no cheap race track here. At the Sepang (circuit), it is expensive and hard to reserve. So they have no other place and use public roads," he said in an interview.
There are other racing venues, however, at Bukit Sagor in Teluk Intan, in Malacca and Johor, he added.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/after-fatal-myvi-crash-motoring-clubs-defend-themselves-saying-tracks-cater#sthash.0TkfZB4r.dpuf
Malaysia Mini Cooper Club advisor Datuk Ahmad Nordin Abu Bakar said motor sports fans who were from low and middle-income groups felt aggrieved when seeing the well-to-do able to enjoy motor sports through legitimate ways.
"There is no cheap race track here. At the Sepang (circuit), it is expensive and hard to reserve. So they have no other place and use public roads," he said in an interview.
There are other racing venues, however, at Bukit Sagor in Teluk Intan, in Malacca and Johor, he added.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/after-fatal-myvi-crash-motoring-clubs-defend-themselves-saying-tracks-cater#sthash.0TkfZB4r.dpuf
