Satria Neo Super 2000 rally car in action at the APRC

[fabianyee]

Went down to JB to watch and take photos of the Proton Satria Neo S2000.... Alister's Neo #3 was leading the pack after Day 1. But bad luck struck when his car landed awkwardly after a jump and damaged the radiator fan blades... Consequently the engine overheated and blew at the start of SS11... Chris Atkinson's #1 Neo had electronic gremlin at SS1 which cost him a lot of time.. The car just died but managed to restart after a long long time (> 15 mins).. Then he started to chase and posted 2 fastest times but still too far behind... Day 2, his car again suffered from electronic gremlin again on SS14.. He managed to finish the rally at the end but didn't get onto the podium... The Satria Neos were able to give a tough fight to the EVO X... Katsu Taguchi, the eventual winner driving the EVO X, admitted that the Neos are FAST.. Now wait for the next round in Jpn in 1 month's time... Here are some photos.. More to come later... #1 - Katsu Taguchi's EVO X finally won the Malaysian round of the APRC.

#2 - Alister going into a hard left sideways

#3 - Countering

#4 - Speeding away exiting the corner

#5 - Chris takes a neater line at the same corner..

#6 - The EVO X is so much longer than the Neo.. If it goes sideways into a turn, it literally would used up all the road...

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#9 - Compare this to the EVO...

#10 - Jump.. Small one though..

 

[initialM]

Ok lar I'll sell my BMW & buy Neo instead.:smokin:

 

[fabianyee]

Day 2:

#11 - It started raining at the stages moments after this shot...

#12 - Mcrae again... Sideways..

#13 - Car #8 Gaurav Gill from India... Pretty fast too...

#14 - Karamjit charging ahead on Day2 after he DNF on Day 1 running SS1.. He did post some good times before he DNF again..

#15 - Sole surviving neo after Alister DNF

#16 - That's how dirty it can get.. That's not the worst...

#17 - Man on top...

#18 - 8 legged fren watching the rally too... the body is aledi 3" long... Including the legs, it's longer than the length of my palm...

#19 - Alister's car.. Noticed the damaged lower front bar.. And the cylinder head was aledi removed...

#20 - A peek at the undercarriage... Nothing like a normal neo

#21 - Chris interviewed by APRC.tv

#22 - All washed up and ready to go to the ceremonial finish