Tsukuba Track day.
Dec 23, 2012, 12:13 AM
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Tsukuba Track day.
Went to the Tsukuba main track for what was probably my last track day for the year. The temperature was 10 degrees centigrade which while warmer than was forecast, was still about 10 degrees below where my tyres become pretty useless but I wasn't going to let that stop me. It was a pretty crowded day with several events being run all together and subsequently they had to bunch people up more then normal making it pretty crowded especially coming into corners.
My time was a couple of seconds slower than my best, but considering the weather and everything else, was to be expected. But I was happy to still do a 1:07.0 with most laps in the 1:07's, and finally breaking 190kmh on the back straight on most laps (very few road cars do) so overall was very pleased with how the car went and had an awesome time as usual
I was experimenting with the camera on my new phone so please forgive the different white balance in some shots.
Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Early start. Pit next to a friend with an VIII MR with the WRC treatment.
This Porsche was insane, but so was the owner... who dropped oil around half the track on the first lap of our first session causing us to get only 2min out of 20 min track time
You can see the oil trail on the video I posted below where the idiot had driven on the racing line for half a lap before pulling off the track despite being Black flagged...
This WRX ended up on it's roof at the hairpin coming onto the back straight shortening our second session....
Some of the Evo's there.
This IX was pretty quick apparently.
Mildly modded X.
Super clean and pretty quick VII.
Friends VIII MR. It looks really good, but would look much better dropped another inch or so.
Very tidy black R34GTR with strut brace that used to be a Bridge somewhere.
lol
Don't laugh, the Nissan Micra guys are very serious, you should see these cars up close...
Very tidy Celica ST205 GT4.
Another clean VII. This guy is at a lot of the events I go to.
Ex Garage HRS (Cyber Evo) shop car. Nice guy, let me have a sit in it so I could play with it.
Note how insanely low the drivers seat is, I could barely see over the dash...
The roll cage was same design and quality as the one in the Cyber Evo, but with more piping and bracing (thank God).
Video of 5 minutes of fun. A good indication of how my car went in relation to the rest of the field including the black R34.
Watch for the finale courtesy of my friend in the VIII MR
YouTube link->
My time was a couple of seconds slower than my best, but considering the weather and everything else, was to be expected. But I was happy to still do a 1:07.0 with most laps in the 1:07's, and finally breaking 190kmh on the back straight on most laps (very few road cars do) so overall was very pleased with how the car went and had an awesome time as usual
I was experimenting with the camera on my new phone so please forgive the different white balance in some shots.
Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Early start. Pit next to a friend with an VIII MR with the WRC treatment.
This Porsche was insane, but so was the owner... who dropped oil around half the track on the first lap of our first session causing us to get only 2min out of 20 min track time
You can see the oil trail on the video I posted below where the idiot had driven on the racing line for half a lap before pulling off the track despite being Black flagged...
This WRX ended up on it's roof at the hairpin coming onto the back straight shortening our second session....
Some of the Evo's there.
This IX was pretty quick apparently.
Mildly modded X.
Super clean and pretty quick VII.
Friends VIII MR. It looks really good, but would look much better dropped another inch or so.
Very tidy black R34GTR with strut brace that used to be a Bridge somewhere.
lol
Don't laugh, the Nissan Micra guys are very serious, you should see these cars up close...
Very tidy Celica ST205 GT4.
Another clean VII. This guy is at a lot of the events I go to.
Ex Garage HRS (Cyber Evo) shop car. Nice guy, let me have a sit in it so I could play with it.
Note how insanely low the drivers seat is, I could barely see over the dash...
The roll cage was same design and quality as the one in the Cyber Evo, but with more piping and bracing (thank God).
Video of 5 minutes of fun. A good indication of how my car went in relation to the rest of the field including the black R34.
Watch for the finale courtesy of my friend in the VIII MR
YouTube link->
Nice
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Dec 23, 2012, 10:41 AM
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oh man what a great vid! when the dude in front of you over compensated and then lost it I was hooting and hollaring!
such a killer collection of cars, passing an R34? wow. the only complaint I had is that you kept passing people so fast I could hardly tell what they were driving. lol.
such a killer collection of cars, passing an R34? wow. the only complaint I had is that you kept passing people so fast I could hardly tell what they were driving. lol.
Dec 23, 2012, 12:49 PM
#11
Nice, thanks for sharing, I truly miss living in Japan. What do you do over there? I'm assuming you are not military or DOD since I did not see a Y plate on your Evo. LOL @ the pic with all the passenger seats sitting in the parking lot.
Nice video, can't say I like your buddy's WRC wing much, doesn't look like it helped him much going straight outta that turn, haha.
Nice video, can't say I like your buddy's WRC wing much, doesn't look like it helped him much going straight outta that turn, haha.
Last edited by SW20Mike; Dec 23, 2012 at 01:01 PM.
