Buriram Times

Bobby Hunter Super One Race Coming Again To Buriram

Returning once more to Buriram, the Bobby Hunter Super One race is coming from the 3-5th of April. That is this weekend coming. Last year we followed the CEA racing team, who pulled off a momentous victory to win their race. Ticket prices have not yet been announced but last year they were only 350…

World’s Biggest Crop Harvested

Over the last couple of weeks, much activity has been seen around the sugarcane fields of Buriram. Harvest time is upon us for the most widely farmed crop in the entire world. Sugarcane is harvested from November to March in much of Thailand. Agriculture of sugarcane in the country is amongst the world’s highest. In…

Free English Teaching Course Book

A professional teacher with experience all over the world is giving away a free TEFL (Teaching English As a Foreign Language) course book online. Max Diamond, who recently moved to Buriram, is offering a downloadable 120 hour English teaching program completely free of charge on his company website. Londoner Max has multiple years of teaching…

Best in World Attendance At Thailand World Superbikes

Close to 84,000 spectators came to watch Buriram’s first ever eni World Superbike Championship race held at Chang International Circuit this weekend. Official figures put the number at 83,739 across the three days. For the super GT back in October an estimated 130,000 attended that particular event. Comparing figures with other race tracks around the…

World Superbikes Organization Praise Chang International Circuit

The Official Facebook page of The eni World Superbikes Championship has praised the hospitality of Chang International Circuit. They further stated that they are already looking forward to visiting next year. Posting on their Facebook page which has 663,600 followers, the world renowned racing organization said: “See you next year in Buriram and many thanks…

Rea Takes Double Victory in Buriram While Brits Take Top Three Spots

For the third time in his career Johnathan Rea took a double victory on race day of the World Superbike Championship. This time in Buirram at Chang International Circuit. In both races Rea dominated from start to finish and was in command throughout. He was never overtaken by any other rider. It was a perfect…

Hollywood Style Ending For Thai Rider

If there was a script to be written for a Hollywood blockbuster about  a motorbike rider from Thailand, who makes his World Supersport debut, on a wild card entry, at his home county’s first ever World Supersport race, on a newly built circuit, and then takes the title in front of a home crowd of…

Just 0.011s Separates The World Superbike Leaders

Just over one hundredth of a second separates the two front runners in first ever World Superbike Championship race to take place in Thailand. In the “superpole” qualifying session Johnathan Rea and Leon Haslam battled it out for the lead with Kawasaki rider Rea coming out on top to take the 6th pole position of…

Tipped Thai Rider In The Hunt After Qualifying

Ratthapark Wilairot, who was tipped by the WSBK website to be a front runner in this weekend’s races, is keeping himself in sight of the leaders. After two rounds of free practice and one qualifying round, the Moto 2 rider is just 0.335 seconds off the fastest lap time of the day. Even with such…

Global House Opened Today

The mega giant home store Global House opened it’s doors to customers in Buriram today. After nearly a year of building work, the gigantic warehouse became available to the public at 9:00 am this morning. Providing everything for the inside of your home and much for your garden the enormous depot has all you need…