Earlier this year, I had an invite from a good buddy of mine Aein, to head over to Burma (also called Myanmar, located just to the west of Thailand) to check out an underground drag racing event. A friend and I jumped on and booked flights for a pittance, and headed over a few days early to do some touristy stuff.

img_9092

img_9065

After chilling in Yangon for a few days, we jumped on an overnight bus to Bagan, arriving at a horrendous 5am. We spent a couple of days exploring the temples in the grasslands, before heading back to Yangon to meet my friend Aein.

img_9047

img_9060

After we arrived back into Yangon on another red-eye bus, we met a few of the guys at a restaurant next to Inya Lake. After brekky, we jumped in with one of them and headed an hour out of town, to a brand new housing development site, where there were already a bunch of people excitedly preparing for the day’s activities.

This was the track available to us – a 2km-long, brand new dual carriageway!

img_9143

Rocket Bunny Toyota 86 on Enkei Racing Revolution RS05RR.

img_9145

Arancio Atlas Aventador on satin black, forged, 3-piece HRE S101s. Can you say baller?

img_9146

img_9147

img_9150

GTRs were by far the most popular model of car at the drag day. Both R35 and R33 models were well-represented!

img_9151

img_9155

Was interesting to see this Evo 10 just parked in the mud. Zero cares!

img_9158

img_9162

img_9163

Carbon everywhere.

img_9166

img_9173

This gentleman in this Alpha 12 (1500hp, US$93K!!) R35 was responsible for organising the day. Cheers Mr Lwin, thanks for the invite!

img_9176

img_9178

img_9181

img_9182

In case any of you guys are not familiar with Overtake, they are an R35-GTR-only, ultra-high-end aftermarket producer. For example, this full-titanium 100-V Saikou exhaust is manufactured for Overtake by Power House Amuse, which many people know for the quality of workmanship. Also (sit down for this), it costs US$9K.

img_9187

20″ forged 1-piece Rays G12, one of lightest and strongest wheels available for the R35. And lets not forget about the enormous race-spec Endless brakes!

img_9191

The racing started in earnest, the first category of the day being R35 GTR-only.

img_9195

img_9200

My good friend Aein rocking DS in Yangon!

img_9202

The lineup has a fantastic variety of cars…

img_9205

… like this SRT Charger.

img_9210

Probably the most beautiful GTR of the day, this red beast was perfect in my eyes.

img_9213

img_9216

Check out those enormous deep-dish, step-lip, 3-piece SSR Professor MS3s wrapped in fat rubber. Hnnnggggg!!

img_9219

img_9229

Aein kicking up the dust on one of his winning runs!

img_9240

img_9242

img_9248

img_9250

And then the skies opened, and put a stop to the day. Unfortunately it rained so hard the roadway flooded, which meant that a bunch of people didn’t get to race, which sucked bigtime!

img_9255

Despite that, the Aventador driver redlined his car heading out of the event.. Flames everywhere!

img_9260

img_9268

Thought I’d fire off a few more frames of Aein’s Wald/Varis hybrid widebody R35 on the way home!

img_9341

img_9365

img_9382

Cheers to all the super friendly Burmese attendees, and especially to Aein and My Lwin for the invite. Hope to see you guys again soon!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,