Thailand Rally This Sunday

[hughden]

Article in the Bangkok Post today saying that the first round of the Thailand Rally Championship starts from the Pattaya Garden Hotel on Sunday and has stages around Rayong. The website given for more information appears to be a year out of date.

Anyone know what time it starts and whereabouts the stages will be?

On a more general note, there seem to be numerous events happening around Pattaya which get little advance publicity but are sometimes mentioned once they are finished (a recent triathlon was an example). Other than presenting myself at tourist information (who often plead ignorance because they are not directly involved with many events), is there a place to reliably find out "what's on in Pattaya"?

Thanks

[monsieurhappy]

I've been trying to get info about the Thai rallies for some time now. Can always find details about which day but never anything about routes or spectator viewing. Probably something in the Thai mags. but I don't read Thai! Looking at the link from Bangkok Post http://www.thailandrally.com I got to http://www.thailandrally.com/home/rallytha...eraryTRCr23.htm which details the times of this weekends rally. Still nothing about actual route or spectator provision. I'm not sure where these places are but remember about the same time last year I was sitting at a bar at Maprachan lake in the evening when quite a few rally cars came past heading towards Pattaya.

This link seems to have the most info but nothing for spectators http://www.thailandrally.com/home/rallythailand/index.html

Please let us know if you find any more info?

Pete

[hughden]

Thanks for the search, obviously PR is not considered important!

I went down to "Rally Headquarters" this morning and extracted a rather badly copied map from them. You can get it here:

http://www.fractured-rabbit.com/rallymap.pdf

Hope it helps, I am going to spend the next couple of hours trying to decipher it!

Cheers

[tokachinter]

I've been trying to get info about the Thai rallies for some time now. Can always find details about which day but never anything about routes or spectator viewing. Probably something in the Thai mags. but I don't read Thai! Looking at the link from Bangkok Post http://www.thailandrally.com I got to http://www.thailandrally.com/home/rallytha...eraryTRCr23.htm which details the times of this weekends rally. Still nothing about actual route or spectator provision. I'm not sure where these places are but remember about the same time last year I was sitting at a bar at Maprachan lake in the evening when quite a few rally cars came past heading towards Pattaya.

This link seems to have the most info but nothing for spectators http://www.thailandrally.com/home/rallythailand/index.html

Please let us know if you find any more info?

Pete

Pete (and other rally fans),

I just posted this on the Motor section of the Forum, HIH.

Rd1 of Thai Rally Ch'ship is on 22/23 March - no venue listed, but usually in Chonburi district.

Website is http://www.thailandrally.com/rally/thailan...ally/index.html

Also, Rd1 of Thai F2 Rally Ch'ship is on 29/30 March in Chiang Mai - most rounds are held in northern region.

F2 is for FWD, 2-litre non-turbo cars, so no Evo/WRX's allowed!

Website is http://www.thailandf2rally.com/

(not updated, regularly)

As we are competing in Thai rallies again this year, I should be able to advise venues and spectating opportunities as I learn them. PM me, with any q's.

Ross

[Chang_paarp]

Please post details as you know them. There are a number of closet petrol heads here including a couple of red names.

I know I shouldn't be but I am surprised that less than 1 month out from the event you do not know the details of the proposed course.

[tokachinter]

Please post details as you know them. There are a number of closet petrol heads here including a couple of red names.

I know I shouldn't be but I am surprised that less than 1 month out from the event you do not know the details of the proposed course.

TIT!

However, I have managed to find some more details and dates for rallies and races in the Kiingdom, this year.

Please refer to my post on the Sports Forum.