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This Video is the re-edited version of the programme Racing Life With Dilantha Malagamuwa Season 1 aired on ITN, Directed by Manuranga Wijesekara.
About him
In 1997, after competing in Japan's top level Formula Nippon, the Prime minister of Japan, Keizo Obuchi, felicitated Dilantha for his effort in becoming the first non-Japanese Asian to achieve this feat.
Dilantha Malagamuwa
HIS LIFE
He was born on 24 June 1963 in Kurunegala and received his education at St. Annes’s College and Trinity College Kandy. He started racing at the age of 16 by winning a motorcycle race. His two sisters encouraged him and persuaded his father to buy him a Yamaha TZ350. In 1983 Dilantha participated in his first International race in Calcutta, India and managed to finish 6th. After the race, he met Matsumoto Kenmei, a Japanese motorbike racer who persuaded him to come to Japan to expand his racing career. In 1985 he went to Japan and in 1997 became the first Non-Japanese Asian to compete in Japan top level Formula Nippon (F3000)
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Podiums in Sri Lankan races
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Podiums in International races
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1st runner up in Championships in Asia and Europe
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International Championships
Racing Portfolio
Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia & Europe Championship
"The Lamborghini Super Trofeo is an international motor racing series. The Lamborghini Super Trofeo is the one-make championship organized by Lamborghini Squadra Corse. The series involves exclusively Huracán Super Trofeo Evo model cars in 3 continental series: Europe, Asia, and North America. The three continental series all have a common format: 6 double races, each 50 minutes long, on the world’s most prestigious circuits, completed by a World Final that decrees the Lamborghini world champions. "
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GT SPORT CLUB European Championship
"The GT Sports Club Europe, organized by SRO Motorsports Group, is an auto racing series for grand tourer cars. With an emphasis on gentleman drivers, Blancpain GT Sports Club is a championship for Bronze, Titanium and Iron drivers only. "
Via WikipediaGT World Challenge Asia
"The GT World Challenge Asia is a GT series motor racing competition, promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation and organized by Team Asia One GT Management. "
Wikipedia
Aston Martin Asia Cup
"The Aston Martin Asia Cup is the world’s first ever Aston Martin one make series. All drivers will compete for the AMAC title in identical Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24 race cars. The series started in 2008 and consisted of 10 races throughout the Asia Pacific region including China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. "
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Porsche Carrera Cup Asia
"The 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia is the fifteenth running of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia series. It began on April 13 at the Shanghai International Circuit and will finish on November 16 at the same circuit. "
carreracupasia.com
Australia Bathurst 24 hours
"The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia. It is an annual race, taking place every February. The race was first held in 1991 for Series Production cars and moved to Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway in 1995 before being discontinued.[1] The race was revived in 2007, again for production cars, before adding a new class for GT3 and other GT cars in 2011. This has led to unprecedented domestic and international exposure for the event. In all, eighteen races have taken place; seventeen at Mount Panorama and one at Eastern Creek Raceway. "
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Japan GT 500
"Super GT is a grand touring car racing series that began in 1993. Originally titled as the Zen Nihon GT Senshuken, generally referred to as either the JGTC or the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It is the top level of sports car racing in Japan. "
wikipedia.orgFormula Nippon Champions / Formula 3000
"The 1995 Japanese Formula 3000 Championship was scheduled over 9 rounds and contested over 8 rounds. 16 different teams, 26 different drivers, 3 different chassis and 3 different engines competed. "
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Testimonials
Prime minister Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa
"ලෝක ශූර ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුවට සුබ පැතුම් එකතු කළා!
ලැම්බෝර්ගිනි සුපර් ට්‍රෝෆියෝ යුරෝපා ශූරතාව සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් තරඟ වදින ලෝක ශූර DILANTHA MALAGAMUWA මහතා දිවයිනෙන් පිටත්ව යාමට පෙර මා හමු වී අද(26) ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තා.
මෙරට රාජ්‍ය අනුග්‍රහය ඇතිව මෝටර් රථ ධාවන තරඟාවලියක් සඳහා ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුව මහතා එක්වන්නේ ඉතිහාසයේ ප්‍රථම වතාවටය.
වසර 36ක් පුරා මෙරටට විශාල කීර්තියක් අත්කර දුන් ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුව මහතාට මෙවර ද ශූරතාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට රැගෙන ඒමට හැකි වේවායි මම සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළා.
මෙම තරගාවලිය සැප්තැම්බර් 5 සිට නොවැම්බර් මස 15 වනදා දක්වා ජර්මනිය, ස්පාඤ්ඤය, බෙල්ජියම, සහ ප්‍රංශය යන රටවල් හිදී පැවැත්වේ.
ප්‍රථම වතාවට රාජ්‍ය අනුග්‍රය ලැබීම පිළිබඳ විශේෂ සටහනක් තැබූ ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුව මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ඇතුළු රජයටත්, එම කටයුතු සම්පාදනය කළ සංචාරක අමාත්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතාට, ක්‍රීඩා හා තරුණ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය Namal Rajapaksa මහතාට සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරක මණ්ඩලයටත් ස්තූතිය පළ කළා.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය
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Daily Mirror
"The National Sports Council 2020 was appointed and announced by the Ministry of Sports earlier today.
Members of the council include Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Kasturi Chellaraja Wilson, Dilantha Malagamuwa, Rohan Fernando, General Shavendra Silva amongst many others. "
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