Being a motor journalist has a habit of taking your preconceptions of what a job should entail and setting them on fire. Having started my stint at paultan.org less than a month ago, I was all set to just sit in the office hammering out news while my colleagues were out covering cool events or driving the hottest new cars. I mean, that's what a newbie is supposed to do, right?

But then an email came in about a Proton test session for a race series I had never heard of at the Sepang International Circuit, and an invitation to ride with one of their drivers out on the track. The editorial team thought it was a good idea for me to get a taste of racing and of the track itself and told me to have fun out there. These guys are nuts, I thought to myself, entrusting this to someone like me.

Not long afterwards, I braved my way through the suffocating haze to Sepang, and as soon as I parked and got of my car my ears were inundated, no, assaulted by the sound of engines buzzing around at full chat, some of them I knew were very serious race machinery. I was about to get my first taste of the Malaysian Super Series.

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