_Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race 2011
PETRONAS Syntium Team made it a weekend to remember at the
Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race with a 1-3 finish. Behind the wheels of the Mercedes SLS GT3; Nobuteru Taniguchi, Masataka Yanagida and Dominic Angafter completed 321 laps, upsetting hot favorites, Belgian Audi R8 in the 12 hour event at the Sepang
International Circuit. Tatsuya Kataoka, Fariqe Hairuman, Bernd Schneider in the other Petronas car was leading the race for the first 10 hours until mechanical problems forced them to make a lengthy pit stop and dropped them to 3rd position. _