Today, AUG 11th will start from the Thailand’s eastern part aranyaprathet will be the loop course.
Today, the LEG2 SS will have total run of 385.95km SS will be 239.84km long distance. Middle of the course will have PC part set up, and could receive the service, but SS will the toughest course yet and will have long distance drive, plantation section, forest, dirt, and jungle course.
The weather is sunny and fine. Since the begging of the rally never rained, seems the rain will not fall soon even it’s a rainy season.
Therefore, the road condition is very dry this year. When the road condition is dry, there will be creating lots of different bad situation than muddy condition. The driver whose running first place will not have these problems but the cars following the first place car will have very difficulties to pass the other motorist because the dust created by the other motorist can’t see front view. This part of the LEG 2 will have bumps, dirt road, and will not be easy for the suspensions on the car as well. This course also has one caution marks every section on the navigation map. The course will be tough and the road will not be a flat road as well.
The FEDERAL-FLEX ASIA CROSS COUNTRY RALLY 2014 is not only tough on the cars and bikes, but to the crew as well. Even the cars or bikes made it through a rough course and get back to the finish line, but if the car does not sustain any damage to the cars or bikes, then crew can have relaxing dinner and breakfast and little bit of maintenance of their cars and bikes, but the challenger is challenging to the rally by then selves will not be so easy. They have to pull all night to make sure ready for next day.
At 7:00 am. Aranyaprathet, the bikes has made it start looking forward to hit the mark SS point of 92km. As for the bikes will be the course for it but not for the cars because the road is still bit narrow. This section of the SS will have it flat road (not like the Japanese road) Asphalt. This section can and could open up the throttle, but this section of the SS will pass through the some asphalt, dirt, and some jump spot need to be very cautious. Also this SS will pass through the villages so each driver has to maintain their speed limit followed by law.
At SS2, 133km will the PC service area and this place rally competitors could have little bit of rest and refuel up their cars and bikes to maintain the challenge up ahead. The challenger will have to make sure not to make off course or many mistake, because after the PC section will have the long distance drive a wait. So, there is no margin of error.
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At SS2, seems no one had any major accident not like the SS1. But SS2 had been little bit tough on two wheelers, if the car get stuck on the muddy road, the car could simply winch up and could get out, but bikes are not so easy. So at SS2 we have encounter bikes are getting helps from the cars to getting their bikes out of the muddy road by winches.
At the finishing line of SS2, everyone is saying they were tired but also everyone was saying that run was exciting and was very fun. It seems that everyone is having very much fun of this year’s rally.
The result of the SS2 is two wheelers first place goes to same as SS1 #110 Keisuke MAEDA time of 3hours and 48 min 19 sec. Second place is #117 Touch Thachn time is only second behind 3hours and 48min 20sec. Third place goes to #102 Tadao EZURE time is 2min and 59 sec behind to top first place, The yesterday’s 2nd place winner #107 Yoshio IKEMACHI had little bit of accident on his bike (engine stop) will he be continue tomorrow’s rally. He said “he will pull all night to fix it for tomorrow”.
1st #110
2nd #117
3rd #102
#107
#106
As for the 4WD result is, first place is Vorapot BUNCHUAYLUEA / Chupong CHAIWAN Team time was 3hours and 7min 24sec. The second place goes to #11 Nuttapon ANGRITTHANON / Peerapong SOMBUTPONG Team first place winner at SS1 but finished on 2nd time was 28sec behind 3hours and 13min 52sec. Then 3rd place goes to #6 Chamnan ON-SRI / Chonlanat PHOPIPAT・Chakkaphop thepyuhin Team time was 3hours and 13min 02sec 5min and 38sec behind then finish the rally.
The result of the total score from the LEG0~LEG2 first place leader is Nuttapon ANGRITTHANON / Peerapong SOMBUTPONG total time of 6hours and 31min 22sec.
Tomorrows schedule is: going toward the cobui border and going into Cambodia toward Angkor Wat. Looking forward to the Cambodia stage, the course will be different than Thailand stage.
