The final round of the 2019 FIM Asia Road Racing Championship will be a celebratory race for newly minted SuperSports 600cc champion Peerapong Boonlert and the Yamaha Thailand Racing Team.
A season of unparalleled racing has netted 12 consecutive podium finishes. Peerapong and his team reached the pinnacle of the 600cc class with one round to spare. Peerapong also equaled Katsuaki Fujiwara’s 2011 8-win achievement. Come the final round, the Thai rider will be looking to surpass that number and create a new record of his own.
Peerapong credits his father, Surapong Boonlert as the person who had moulded his career to date. Unknown to many, Surapong Boonlert was himself a two-times Asian Champion during the 2-stroke era. Surapong won the Underbone 110cc title in 1999 and the Underbone 125cc title in 2000. At that time, Peerapong was only a year old but as the old saying goes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.