People gathered in the famous beach resort Pataya enjoying the summer.

Close by the central city of Pataya there is a circuit called Villa circuit, on AUG,9th FEDERAL-FLEX Asia cross country rally's car and bikes inspection held by official.

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Now introducing the teams competing this year's rally

This year the 4WD competitors are 22 cars: Mitsubishi 5 cars, Toyota 5 cars, Ford 1 car, Isuzu 8 cars, and Suzuki 3 cars. in the Participating class, T1D has 13 cars more, T2D class has 3 cars, T1G class has 5 cars, and T1E class has 1 car. The Japanese participant are total 11 team, Thailand also participating with 11 team total.

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This year is the 3rd annual for the bike division. 16bikes are participating this year. Honda 3 bikes, Yamaha 5 bikes, KTM 5 bikes, and HUSABERG 2 bikes, GUSQVANA 1 Bike. Participating countries are Japan 11, Thailand 1, Cambodia 3, and Sweden 1, there are many participant from Japan as well.

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The inspection of the cars and bikes started in the strong sun but there was wind so turns out to be a nice weather for rally. 4WD and Bikes stated gather at the villa circuit ready for start.


The official announced this year's road and course condition and beginning the briefing at 10:30 am.

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The super SS prologue run started from the Villa Circuit to starting point Pataya 1.48km.

Run is 3.93km, maximum time set in 20min, if nothing happen majorly then no one will have penalty.

The road condition of the rally course is very fair, the weather is nice and sunny but in the evening had little bit of rain. the rain didn't affect the road condition to make its muddy like last year.

The road condition is very fair but it is very sandy and the road itself is very narrow road, think it as one car barely can pass through. the road will be very tough to go through from the beginning of the rally.

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The start began with the Bike and the 4WD followed, the course will have many turns and sandy road sections. Although it was a short course which determines tomorrow's order of start, even the short distance already had ups and downs.

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#6 Channan ON-SRI / Chonlanat PHOPIPAT (MITSUBISHI TRITON) accident happened when No. 6 Channan ON-SRI gone off course on 2km point at T-shape right turns. The car when in to the ditch from nose and navigator when out to check and shuck to car to get it out but the car stuck even more deeper so they have to use winch to get the car out. in that affected to the following car from the start has ups and downs.

The leading position of the super SS prologue was #16 Kinya MORIKAWA / Masahiko UCHIDA (ISUZU D-MAX). although the machine's preparation took long time but professional rally veteran despise all the other tough competitors away and became top of the super SS course.

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Overall score of the super SS, 2nd place 3sec short became the #11 Nuttapon / ANGRITTHANON (TOYOTA Vigo), 3rd is last year's total overall winner #1 Paitoon THAMMASIRIKUL / Thanyapat MEENIL (ISUZU D-MAX) 10sec behind made cross the goal line.

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After finishing up the Super SS Section and the rally cars and Bike lined up gathered at the famous beach resort Pataya walking street. The ceremonies were held in Saturday, so many spectators gather and taking pictures and enjoyed the evening.

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Now, today's Super SS has its rewards from FEDERAL (FEDERAL AWARD) for the 1st place rewards of 10,000Baht, 2nd 5000Baht, 3rd received 3000Baht. after the ceremonies the rally Bikes and Rally Cars parade through the main starting gate and prepare for tomorrow's rally.

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Exciting rally of LEG1 / SS1 will start from AUG 10th, we do not know what to expect from the rally tomorrow, but it is very hard to wait. Total runs of 193.50km of hard course, how exciting.


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