Red Bull Rookies Search: The 20 Selected From The Go-Kart Challenge

22 May 2012, Singapore – Out of more than 300 participants who turned up for the trials for the Singapore’s Choice Red Bull Rookies Driver Search at Big Splash and Velocity over two weekends in May, 32 made it to the final selections.

This year’s search was open to motor sports enthusiasts aged 18 to 25 with manual driving licenses and a passion for racing.

This afternoon, 27 of the 32 guys and gals turned up at Kartright Speedway to compete for the 20 slots to represent Singapore against a total pool of 66 contestants from Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia. They will vie for the 2 male and 2 female spots in the Red Bull Rookies team.

10 lucky male candidates and 10 other female candidates were selected for the next round on 26 – 27 May 2012 at Gallery Mufors  and Speedway PLUS in Kuala Lumpur.  66 candidates from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei will attend the defensive driving course and practical driving test as well as fight for the top 30 spots in the second elimination round held at Shah Alam Stadium Carpark and Gallery Mufors on 23 – 24 June 2012 where the candidates will be put through a Team Building Challenge and trained in Advanced Driving Workshop by Asia Advanced Driving Academy (AADA). 12 final candidates will be selected then.

The 10 Selected Male Candidates

• Adrian Tan Keng Sing – 23 year old RMIT Student
• Amrit Mirchandani Changaroth – 21 year old full-time National Serviceman
• Edwin Loh Yan Wen – 24 year old NTU Student
• Gerald Wee Zong Xin – 25 year old Process Technician
• Kwong Chi Yeung Kayson – 22 year old full-time National Serviceman
• Marcus Lee Han – 22 year old RP Student
• Matthew Ng Yi Ming – 20 year old Accountant
• Reagan Huang – 23 year old Financial Analyst
• Ruslan Bin Rusli Lim – 24 year old Flight Operations Officer
• Timothy Felix Rajadurai – 22 year old Personal Trainer

 

The 10 Selected Female Candidates

• Andrea Tay – 25 year old SIM-UB graduate
• Bernice Loh Kit Teng – 22 year old NTU Student
• Eileen Khoo Yi Ling – 25 year old Operations Executive
• Jaslyn Lee Peng Ting – 23 year old SIM Student
• Nurfalizzah Bte Jaafar – 25 year old Patient Relation Officer
• Peggy Heng Pei Yu – 23 year old Entrepreneur
• Rachel Teng Pei Shi – 22 year old NUS Student
• Rochelle Chow Shu Ting – 24 year old Sales Consultant
• Shamsiah Abdul Rashid – 23 year old Account Executive
• Valerie Wang Meiyu – 23 year old SIM Student

Wild card participant, 20 year old TP Student, Vanessa Ho Xue Ting got into the race with over 400 Facebook likes.

We spoke to one of the 11 girls selected, Peggy Heng, a part time model and lifestyle blogger know as her online moniker Thy-Dowager about her participation in this year’s Redbull Rookies Search.

 

The Female team will be led by Singapore’s Rookies Search runner up in 2011, Melissa Huang and the Male team will be headed by Malaysia’s top Rookie Driver, Malaysian Mark Darwin.  Each team will have a total of three drivers.
This is the first year a cash prize of RM10,000 will be given to the winning team of the final race at the Battle of the Sexes in the Sepang Endurance Race 1000KM (S1K) from 6 to 8 December 2012.

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