Searching RB male & female drivers

After 6 years into the project, Red Bull Rookies Racing 2012 will get a new look. Previously an all-female drivers team, this time a battle of sexes will be introduced to bring in the male drivers. All Bruneians (Yellow and Red IC holders) between the age of 18 and 25 years old are encouraged to participate.

The audition will be held at Times Square from 18th to 20th May 2012. Anybody born between 31st December 1994 and 1st January 1987 is eligible to take part. Valid IC’s are to be presented during the registration process. The male team which is to be spearheaded by Mark Darwin, a Malaysian, as the anchorman while the female team will be led by Melissa Huang of Singapore.

Red Bull Rookies Racing was introduced to Brunei Darussalam in 2010 where Noradzlianayati Abdul Razak (Liana) and Melline Jaini (Mel) made their debut and last year Fauziah Haziz (Ogy) made history as she was the first Bruneian to start the Sepang 1000km Race in Red Bull colours. And she did exceptionally well combining with Puteri Ayu Yasmin of Malaysia and Emmiline Ang of Singapore. The team came home in 15th placing out of 28 teams that started the race. It was a remarkable result considering the drivers were rookies and the only all-female team.

Mr.Raymond Lee, the Area Sales Manager (Brunei Darussalam) said that Red Bull introduced and continued this legacy project in the hope to provide the opportunity of a lifetime to potential young champions who have the dream to excel in racing industry. Many times it is very costly for one individual to prepare and race.

Come the 20th May 2012, 3 female and 3 male qualifiers will be announced to take part in the multi-stages and stringent elimination process to be conducted by the team led by Team Manager cum Trainer, Mr. Kenvin Low. Mr Low possesses an impressive resume in terms of racing and coaching. This will be his fourth year handling the team.

This is how the seach for the drivers will look like and the time line.. A bit confusing but you will understand soon

Mr. Wong, representative from Red Bull, at the press conference yesterday

So to make it easier for you guys… There will be 66 spots during the initial stage (56 candidates from normal selection + 10 candidates from wildcard FB selection online). However, there will be six drivers driving in the finals where there will be one car driven by male and the other by female.

Then again, since Mark Darwin (Malaysia) and Melissa Huang (Singaporean hot nurse) will be the anchors on their respective cars. So this means the 66 candidates will be fighting for four spots (2 male and 2 female). Now let’s hope Brunei will get selected especially in the Wild Card Facebook Selection Online. It’s open to anyone and of course, there’s an age grouping criteria to make you eligible.

For more info on voting or putting your photo for voting purposes, you can click here. So what are you waiting for… The RED BULL Rookies search 2012 has just began. I hope to see some Brunei representatives.

This was the team of Red Bull Rookies 2011 and they all did quite well

So who will be the chosen ones??

Click image to find out more :))

This morning, Alliance Francaise De Brunei (AF Brunei) held a screening of 2 short films – The Little Dragon & Madagascar – A Diary of a Journey at the Pusat Ehsan. This is one of the programmes under the French Film Festival (FFF) 2012.

More than 70 students saw the movie and apart from the movie, the students and representatives from AF Brunei participated in activities such creating moving pictures devices or toys called the Zeotrope, Thaumatrope and Flipbooks. All these types of activities are related to the ancestors of the animation and cinema.

After that, AF Brunei hosted another movie session as part of the FFF and the movie screened was “A Cat in Paris”, a movie nominated for the Oscars Cesar 2012 and European Film Awards 2012.

All activities organised at Pusat Ehsan is sponsored by KFC – The Official Sponsor for Pusat Ehsan Activities.

For further information about the French Film Festival 2012, the public can follow Alliance Française de Brunei on all social medias and their website www.afbruneidarussalam.com or call them at +673 265 4245 or drop by at their headquarters at Jalan Dato Ratna, Kampong Kiarong. Images courtesy of AF Brunei.