LOL!

 

Wow, after reading this thread and re-reading the bestmotoring page, it makes perfect sense:

http://www.bestmotoringvideo.com/news/atc22/index.html
"casting call"

kinda lame, i really hoped that it would be more of a lap time/driver response kinda competition.

 

Funny you should ask - precisely because I was after balance which is really hard to get on a mid-engine car like the MR2 and because, per the rules, the steel belted DOT radials that we understood to be allowed (and I called and emailed the organizers on this issue numerous times for clarification) would provide enough grip for a small, light car like the MR2 while ensuring that the handling is both neutral and predicatable (desireable when the driver doesn't have the benefit of any prior seat time in the car).

If I thought that a tiny DOT legal steel radial was illegal I would choose to run the biggest widest rim/tire combo I could stuff under the fenders and trade overall handling balance for ultimate grip. Of course, per the guidelines that Ken emailed and discussed with m by phone, my tire choice made total sense and delivered excellent results as evidenced by my lap time (which was not factored into the producers' decsion making anyway). I have since learned that my lap time was the same as the time achieved by last year's winner - the Comptech NSX.

One last thing I should add - the Factor X guys are cool guys and I really enjoyed meeting them and checking out the car. My beef is with Zigzag/BMI, not any of the other contestants.

-- DavidV

 

NO

 

Thanks everyone for the kind words, it was great to see all of the Evo tuners yesterday, congrats to Shiv for doing so well. My commuter car scored the most points in the judging, but we had a component failure keep us from going forward.
Our racecar was our original entry, but the organizers of the event recieved _many_ complaints about it being allowed to run, so we made the decision to leave it at the shop and focus our teams effort on my daily driver. After the season we have had, winning so many events thru the year, I can't complain about this set back one bit. For me, motorsports is always about sharing the best and worst of times with your friends and competitors, all of you can be proud of the way the Evo community was represented, hopefully the video will show that as well. See you all next time.

 

I don't know why you are so surprised. That same silver Skyline was beaten by our BOZZ EVO during the JGTC weekend at Fontana last year in one of the TimeAttack events we won. Both cars, which is very important, were driven by a hired gun driver Eiji "Tarzan" Yamada. He pulled off better overall lap times in our EVO than that Skyline. And helped us win the event as best overall.

And, there was this other Skyline. The purple monster of Signal Auto. During our first TimeAttack which we won in our class, our EVO had better lap times than the Signal Auto Skyline which was in UNLIMITED class. Yet again, both cars were driven by Tarzan.

The only things the XS Sky had going for it were the slicks and the fact that it was a Skyline. 700hp or not, EVO's are FTW!

- Alex@BOZZ

 

evos own.. plus the car can be fast with full interior.. imagine a stripped evo @ 2800 lbs with 305 hoosiers..

 

and whats your problem against shiv asking why is he so surprised?? i think you just have to congrat vishnu and stop talking about your car and your past races!!!!!

 

Que?

 

That would be Cyber EVO... But it is running A048 in 255.

 

Striking a pose in front of the uncrowned Touge Champion !


From left to right:

Jerry of Full Function, Sean of Full Function (bent over tightening a hose clamp), Adrian, Eric, Ruch, Isaac, me, Navid from Extreme Performance, Calvin, Leif (the honky) and Asitha (aka: the most hated man at NASA)

 

Ben, Sean and Jerry from Full Function (or is that Full F#@ktion?):

 

That was good times ^^ When are we going to see the picture we took with Tsuchiya?

BTW, I'll get our man Adrian to start compiling all that footage

 

The Full Function crew in front of their badass S2000 powered Corolla:

 

Sweet widebody EVO from APR: