TGR racing festival about to heat up Johor

By JAY WONG | 17 January 2018


ISKANDAR PUTERI: The Toyota GAZOO Racing (TGR) racing festival is making its way to Medini City in Iskandar Puteri, Johor this weekend, bringing with it non-stop motor racing action, celebrity activities and a new Toyota Vios Sports Edition as the grand prize in a lucky draw for a lucky visitor.

Entrance to the TGR festival this weekend (Jan 19 to 20) is free with activities beginning from 9am to 6.30pm for both days in Medini City to thrill a sizeable crowd of around 50,000 visitors that was seen in both Penang and Kuala Lumpur.

All eyes will be focused on the upcoming Vios Challenge race with no runaway winner at the moment - promising a heated session of the bumper-to-bumper racing as drivers vye for the top spot in all three classes of Sporting, Super Sporting and Promotional.

Toyota Gazoo Racing artistes

Toyota Gazoo Racing (Janna)
Fans with Janna


The Promotional Class will have celebrity racers Fattah Amin, Diana Danielle, Janna Nick, Geraldine Gan, Danny Koo, Venice Min, Shawn Lee and Shukri Yahaya who won the last race in MAEPS Serdang, Kuala Lumpur.

For the upcoming race weekend Media Prima’s Drama Sangat bus tour celebrities will be making an appearance, including Nazrief Nazri, Intan Najwa, Adiba Yunos, Aishah Azman, Raja Afiq, Ruhainies, Zie Zainal and Aliff Yasraff who will be meeting fans and giving away prizes and souvenirs during their meet and greet sessions.

Toyota Gazoo Racing - Meet the celebs
Superhero Ejen Ali and Comot will also be making an appearance throughout the weekend with more prizes and souvenirs to be given away.

Toyota fans will further be treated with a showcase of the latest models including the 2018 Toyota Vios and the C-HR.

There will also be test drive sessions available for for most Toyota models as well as a stunt performance by Japanese World Champion drifters Masato
Kawabata and Drift Samurai Takahiro Imamura in a pair of Toyota 86 drift machines.

Toyota Gazoo Racing racing festival - Drift performance with Toyota 86
During the festival, the race track will be open for an hour to cyclists who register on Saturday morning.

Another attraction of the Toyota GAZOO Racing (TGR) Racing Festival in Medini City is the presence of some of the region’s top food trucks from Johor including Brader Doug, Tacoloco, Salys Streetfood, Aromorasa to name a few.

For more information, log on to http://toyotagazooracingmalaysia.com.my/tgr-vios-challenge or follow the Insta page or like the Facebook page.

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