EMOTIONAL WEEKEND FOR PST AS TANIGUCHI, ORIDO AND STUCK DELIVERS FOURTH PLACE IN A BMW Z4M COUPE
It was an emotional weekend for the PETRONAS Syntium Team, with the team experiencing concern after Fariqe’s accident and delight after a great finish by the team’s No. 28 BMW Z4M Coupe at the ninth edition of the PETRONAS Primax 3 Merdeka Millennium Endurance race.
The year-long wait to overcome the disappointment from the team’s outing last year, the 2008 edition of the PETRONAS Primax 3 Merdeka Millennium Endurance race on Saturday provided cause for celebration for the PETRONAS Syntium Team. Despite the mechanical setbacks in the earlier phases of the 12-hour endurance race, the trio of Nobuteru Taniguchi, Manabu Orido and Johannes Stuck were able to bring the No.28 BMW Z4M Coupe home in overall fourth place.
Meanwhile, it was a reverse of fortunes for the team’s second BMW Z4M Coupe in the hands of the team’s three other drivers, Masataka Yanagida, Tatsuya Kataoka and Fariqe Hairuman. As a result of an accident with another car from a different class in the eighth hour of the race, the No.20 BMW Z4M Coupe was forced into an early retirement. Malaysian driver Fariqe Hairuman, who was driving at the time of the accident was taken to the circuit’s medical facility for checks and later taken to hospital for further medical treatment. Fariqe did not sustain any serious injuries from the accident and is expected to be released from hospital within the next day.
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