Furukawa Battery (FB Battery) welcome party,7 provided the annual pre-race gathering for everyone.

BIFORE RACE

8.11 (Sat.) Sunny with mostly cloudy sky, Pattaya.


Headquarter base at GRAND PALAZZO HOTEL PATATAYA

This year Sun Chlorella Asia Cross Country Rally (AXCR) participant, 27 Motorcycle, 27 cars and 2 sidecars. 17 Japanese rider cover the majority of the motorcycle entry, next are Australia & Cambodia riders with 3 riders, then Thai & Indonesia riders with 2.
Four wheels with Thai & Japanese combined of 10 teams, the rest of the team are from Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, and Brunei.

2 Japanese Sidecar team with 4 members each, which total comes up to 40 Japanese participants.


Giant screen at the main street, playing last years AXCR race summary all day.

Japanese briefing

GRAND PALAZZO HOTEL PATATAYA, is the headquartered base for this years race setup / Japanese briefing / tomorrows vehicle inspection / getting ready for ceremony start. The Japanese briefing started at 14:00, it sure bring the excitement for all that the events it’s about to start.

This briefing is conducted in Japanese, to help the Japanese participant to have a clear understanding and opportunity to clear any questions. After all, all of the announcements are made in English, and with this Japanese briefing, it sure help the 90 plus Japanese event related personnel.

The meeting lead by event organizer Mr. Sasa. he explains that although this years course is shorter than other years, but it is far more tricky & challenging than ever before. With the rain in the forecast, plus the course been getting rain all week, do expect to get stock even you think you are going through high speed course area.

He continues explain that this years key to success, will also highly depends on the navigation skills. As this years course have serval complicated area to navigate, one miss course, will be difficult for participants to trace back.

Mr. Sasa especially emphasize the strict policy of 30km/h speed limit impose at towns, that no passing and must drive with caution. If accident happened during these area the team may face disqualification.


As shown on briefing of course with rain conditions.

18:00 FB Battery welcoming party

Around 18:00 Furukawa Battery (FB Battery) host FB night welcoming party, at Sabai Resort Pataya Hotel beautiful poolside.

FB Battery is world renowned battery manufacturer, battery product not just famous supply for car and motorcycle, but also for aircraft, trains, ships & OA equipment. It is wildly known and popular brand in Thailand as well.



A toast by Mr. Shinichiro Ota of Furukawa battery, wishing all participants a safe & completion of this years AXCR race.

With all the official preparation completed. Tomorrow 7:30 in the morning starts for all Vehicle inspection, follow by ceremony start in the evening. The highly anticipate annual Sun Chlorella AXCR about to start, stat tone for more exciting reports!


Last years second finish MR.Yoshio Ikemachi introducing TEAM FB INTERNATIONAL and FB JAPAN members.
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