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� The presence of Formula One racing in Malaysia has only been for few years, when the giant state oil company, PETRONAS, decided to have sponsorship deal with Red Bull Sauber back in 1995. It came to a surprise to all Malaysians when the 60-hour a week delayed Formula One championship series were shown on TV showed few glances of Sauber cars were carrying PETRONAS logo on the back wing. Suddenly, Malaysians start talking about Formula One and the fans became more and more. PETRONAS had gone more serious by forming a join-venture Sauber-Petronas Engineering company to undertake the design of the Sauber cars in 1996. Came to 1997, to everybody surprise, The Ministry of Tourism had strucked deal with a new team, Stewart Ford, to be one of the main sponsor. All of a sudden, Malaysia flag and word were everywhere in the Formula One scene.� But it lasted only for a year when the Ministry pullled out of the deal at the end of 1997 session,.reported as that the under-performing Stewart led to the decision. Local media such as private satellite TV had made things possible to Formula One fans in Malaysia. Now every fans has a chance to watch live telecast of Formula One racing. From one hour ediited series now three hour in front of tube. Local newspapers started allocating at least one full page of race reports by Monday or Tuesday. Local gift shops start selling T-shirt, die and cast car models, magazines, etc Schumacher, Villenueve, Hill, Alesi were talk of the town when came Monday or Tuesday following the race. But in the middle 1997, a major announcement by FIA pulled another surpise to everybody when Malaysia was to be offered a stage of Formula One Championship in 1999, when Malaysia had yet had the proper race track. Despite major lobby of hosting Formula One Championship by China, Indonesia and Korea, Malaysia was given the right to host one of the stage in 1999 pending a new track to be built. By the end of 1997, the construction of the new race track in Sepang� was on the way.Currently, it is reported that the construction of the track is 80% completion and is scheduled to be completed and ready for testing by the end of 1998. The writer is supporting Schumacher, Ferrari and Sauber PETRONAS. Sometimes last year, the idea of creating these websites was brought up by his best friend, KiRRaNa, a fanatic fan of Villeneuve, Williams and Sauber PETRONAS, whom he owes her a great deal. The writer hopes to lure her into supporting Ferrari and Mc Laren in 1999. � � |