Bangsaen Thailand Speed Festival 2008

[vincecarlo]

Bangsaen Thailand Speed Festival is a 5 day street race aka SingTel F1 & Macau style. The difference is it's a lethal mix of different vehicle classes; ENDURANCE, HK MINI, RETRO, SUPER BIKE, YARIS ONE MAKE, VIOS ONE MAKE, VIOS LADY CUP, SUPER 1500, SUPER 1600, SUPER 2000, SUPER CARS, SUPER COMMONRAIL (basically 4x4 trucks) . There are Drift demos and also no motorsport event in Thailand is imcomplete w/o famous Thailand ‘Pretty’ .

Just grab a copy of WHEELS Asia Jan '09 issue to check out the 4pg spread if interested to read more about it.

1st 2 pix of magazine taken with Fuji F100. Rest of pix taken is mix of D3 & D200.

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Start off with some bike action

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HK Mini Club came down in full force, really cute to see the original Minis racing and often cocking a rear wheel.

Mr Bean was also there

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Retro Class

This E30 was blistering


HERBIE !!


Race on into the dusk when the skies opened up

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The Thai take racing very very seriously





Commonrail

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Super Car category, wet race in the twilight

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Night Drifto demo

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bought that episode of wheels

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NSX with Veilside bodykit


Vios totally bling


Now this is totally Bling Bling, car was seen arriving in the evening

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Crowd


Paddock


Local Thai singer that also drift for PTT Team

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Saved the best for last, as you can see this is a totally fun event

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Some Hankook 'pretties' working for other brands







Hope you liked the series

[rotisiao]

wow..when was this?! i saw the number 53 volkswagen at chinatown during my bangkok trip!

[wrx_sti_22b]

Originally Posted by vincecarlo

Wah... is this Corolla Altis touring car same as Toyota Axio touring car (http://www.nihoncar.com/en/news-1008...xio+GT300.html) ?

[NineEleven]

Very good coverage. Looks like you spent the whole day there!

[vincecarlo]

Originally Posted by rotisiao wow..when was this?! i saw the number 53 volkswagen at chinatown during my bangkok trip!

Back in Nov'08, it's 5 days of street racing. Very interesting event, was featured in Jan'09 of Wheel Asia

Yes, the 53 Herbie is pretty quick

[vincecarlo]

Originally Posted by NineEleven Very good coverage. Looks like you spent the whole day there!

TQ, actually 2 day; was so so hot, they poured down, then sun, then poured

[vincecarlo]

Originally Posted by wrx_sti_22b Wah... is this Corolla Altis touring car same as Toyota Axio touring car (http://www.nihoncar.com/en/news-1008...xio+GT300.html) ?

Here's another shot I got of the Altis when it was being prepared before the race