India's Armaan Ebrahim and his Sri Lankan team-mate Dilantha Malagam overcame gearbox problems to finish third in the second race of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series that was run on the streets of the Malaysian capital here on Sunday.
Having qualified fifth, JK Tyre brand ambassador Ebrahim attacked from the word go as overtaking was extremely difficult in the narrow street circuit.
Ebrahim had made three places and was in second place when he handed over the car to team-mate Malagam when running in second position.
During the pit stop, the engine shut off due to overheating issues and by the time they managed to restart and get out on the circuit, they had lost a place and finally took a well earned third place overall to retrieve valuable points lost in Race 1.
In Race 1, Ebrahim was running a very strong second till halfway through, but gremlins struck as the gearbox pod sensor malfunctioned forcing him to pit.
Ebrahim said: "It was finally a good result over a very difficult weekend. To start with, we lost precious track time as the first session was cancelled due to the track not being ready and to split one session between two drivers meant that we got just over 6 to 7 laps in practice.
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"Qualifying was not so bad as we qualified fifth and having understood what we needed to do on the car, I was quite confident of a good result in both races.
"Race 1 was going really well as I had moved into second, but suddenly, the gearbox stopped working and I could not shift any gears and that forced me to the pits.
"Race 2 was looking very solid again after starting fifth again. This time, it was quite a fight to make places and after a few laps I managed to get to second place.
"Pit stop time came up and once again gremlins struck as during the driver change over, the engine shut off due to over-heating and by the time my team mate managed to restart and get back on track, we lost a place. Nevertheless third overall and a podium was a good way to end the weekend."