Honda Malaysia Racing Team

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.

Malaysia Honda Malaysia Racing Team
Founded2003
BaseAlor Gajah, Melaka
Current seriesSepang 1000 km
Former seriesMerdeka Millennium Endurance
Malaysia Championship Series

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.


Merdeka Millennium Endurance Result
Year Car No Drivers Class Laps Class
Pos.		 Pos.
2003 Honda Integra Type R 26 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Hidetoshi Mitsusada
Japan Hiroki Katoh		 A 261 1st 3rd
Honda Integra Type R 28 Hong Kong Lo Ka Chun
Hong Kong Lo Ka Fai
Malaysia Ng Kok Chin		 A 254 3rd 6th
2004 Honda Civic 26 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Hidetoshi Mitsusada
Malaysia Tommy Lee		 A 260 3rd 3rd
Honda Civic 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy
Japan Hiroki Katoh		 A 265 1st 1st
2005 Honda Civic 26 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Ryo Michigami
Malaysia Tommy Lee		 A 253 4th 8th
Honda Civic 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy
Japan Hiroki Katoh		 A 278 1st 2nd
2006 Honda Civic 26 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Shinya Hosokawa
Malaysia Rueben Wong		 A 209 8th 41st
Honda Civic 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy
Japan Hiroki Katoh		 A 258 1st 4th
2007 Honda Civic Type R 26 Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Rueben Wong
Malaysia Fahrizal Hasan		 A 282 2nd 3rd
Honda Civic Type R 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Japan Hiroki Katoh
Japan Shinya Hosokawa		 A 283 1st 2nd
2008 Honda Civic Type R 26 Malaysia Rueben Wong
Malaysia Fahrizal Hasan
Malaysia Faisal Asri		 A 252 9th 23rd
Honda Civic Type R 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Victor Cheong		 A 267 6th 18th
2009 Honda Civic Type R 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Rueben Wong		 A2 278 2nd 8th
2010 Honda Civic Type R 27 Malaysia Eddie Liew
Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Rueben Wong		 TP 281 1st 8th

Sepang 1000 km Result
Year Car Drivers Laps Pos.
2012 Honda Jazz Malaysia Tengku Ezan Ley
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy		 177 5th
Honda Jazz Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Eddie Liew		 140 20th
2013 Honda Jazz Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Eddie Liew		 181 1st
Honda Jazz Malaysia Tengku Ezan Ley
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy		 167 9th
2014 Honda Jazz Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Eddie Liew		 180 3rd
Honda City Malaysia Farriz Fauzy
Malaysia Alif Hamdan		 177 4th
Honda Jazz Malaysia Jeff Tan Zhong Zheng
Malaysia Mohd Henzee Hamzah		 172 6th
2015 Honda City Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy		 181 1st[3]
2016 Honda Jazz Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy		 180 2nd
2017 Honda Jazz Malaysia Aaron Lim
Malaysia Farriz Fauzy		 142 DNF
Honda City Malaysia Mark Darwin
Malaysia Ahmad Akid Noor		 127 26th

References
  1. "Honda Malaysia Racing Team Raring To Win Back MME Glory Days". motorsportchannel.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. "Rising to "The Challenge Within" won Class A Championship title for the 5th consecutive year in MME". Honda Malaysia. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. "Aaron and Farriz, Honda Malaysia Racing Team Wins S1K". Sepang Circuit. Retrieved 14 November 2017.


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