Time Attack UK - UK cars to compete at Tsukuba

[tpw]

Great reading and good luck tomorrow to all of you!

[hodgie]

Great reading Andy, good luck (i would say tomorrow) but your already at the track.

[P20SPD]

Right, long phone call to a very tired sounding Liz in Japan, but here goes

The Zen crew finished rebuilding the Zen car at 6am this morning (Japan time), and got the car to the circuit, but missed the first session due to the time it takes to get there.

Phil Glew went out in the Zen car did 4 laps, came back into pits, changed the tyres, and 2 laps later a rod went through the block!!!

They suspect they have been having massive oil surge issues!

Now is the plus side, in those brief laps Phil managed a 58.5 second lap, which they think is good enough for 9th overall out of 70 cars

Awesome

Clive at RC had Taniguchi driving his car today, and managed a 59.1, 11th overall. Well done guys.

Adrian managed a 64 second lap with a pretty standard engine, so pretty good going all things considered.

I believe Andy managed a 63 in the Sumo car too.

Thats all the info i got at this point in time, as i think everyone has passed out due to exhaustion!

Well done to all the UK crew that went out there. You did us all proud.

Massive well done to the Zen tribe, and that little demon driver Phil Glew.

Steven

[Listerofsmeg]

Congrats all round is well deserved then!! Cheers for the update Steven.

[Thrust]

Breathless updates. Every word counts! Cheers for the effort to post and glad the whole thing went so well despite those unbelievable setbacks.

[hockey-boy]

massive congratulation to all.
some nice results in the end.

[P20SPD]

Final results shown here
Mitsubishi Lancer Register Forum - Time Attack UK - UK Cars to race at Tsukuba!

[daytona]

Well done to all the guys out there, one hell of an effort Looks like a Skyline came first The M-speed R34 did a 54.481 sec lap, great to see the GTR back on top

[hockey-boy]

too right mate

3 gtr's in top 5

1st 34bnr
4th 32bnr
5th 32bnr

however a big well done to everyone.

[Newera]

Was good to see the English cars there at Tsukuba for the first time in Japan, today and meet the teams. Despite everyone being totally knackered and some of the cars having suffered some serious setbacks, it was great to see everyone was just determined to take part, despite the difficulties and lack of sleep the last few days..

Each team had worked their best, and as a first go at this event, I couldn't help being impressed by the lap times achieved in Clive's (RC Developments) Evo and Paul's Impreza (Zen Performance)






Bear in mind the Evo was only running RWD and the first thing Taniguchi told him after setting the fastest lap in it - was "You need a front diff"...
Had they been able to get a diff in time from Cusco, as had been promised, the car might have been a couple of seconds quicker per lap...

Until this morning, the Impreza had already suffered 2 engine failures during this week. The first - when a Kent Cams cam pulley mount sheared off (Made of alloy, now replaced with Jun pulleys with steel mounts) and the second failure when a bearing spun. It happened yet again during time attack at around 12pm today, and this time holed the 2.2 block ! But not before Phil Glew put in a 58.534 lap time! That's awesome driving.... There's still a lot of development Paul was saying he's planning for this Impreza, so will be one to watch!
He seems to think these engine failures could have been caused by oil starvation, but they won't know till they strip the engine and take a closer look.

Adrian (Fensport), selected 1st instead of 3rd in plactice, and suffered 4th cylinder con rod damage, but the guys at Do Duck sorted him a standard 3S-GTE engine and so today it ran only 1.2 bar. As Adrian hadn't had much time to set the car up and running a very laggy turbo on low boost, it didn't make for very quick lap times. That car's capable of going a lot quicker !

Andy's car I don't really know about, as I didn't get a chance to really ask him about it - but 1.03's very respectable for a first time on this circuit. Sounds like the 350Z didn't have any significant problems, which is half the battle, if not more.

Was really pleased to hear from everyone who was participating that they'd each love to return next year !

They mentioned seeing the Japanese cars for themselves close up and speaking with Tarzan (Yamada) and other drivers, they'd leart a lot which they've every intention of putting to work... !

Fensport's Celica might wait till after TAS, as it may be on display with either the Toyo or Blitz stand (But no certain plans just now). Anyways, it was great to see it in the flesh. Beautifully prepared machine, that!

Big thumbs up for Andy @ Sumo Power in having helped put this together for all who participated today . Made my day to see the English out here battling against the odds.

Also great to see the Aussies from Hi Octane Racing over. Their car looked fast and did a 59 second lap. Mark, the driver's a very likable guy, was good to see Ian again too.

Look forward to seeing you all again next year





Miguel

[Listerofsmeg]

Truly awesome. I am going to make it a life achievement to drive that circuit myself one day.

[hodgie]

Who built the 34 that did the 54.481 lap?

[Hugo]

Originally Posted by hodgie

Who built the 34 that did the 54.481 lap?

That's the UUUUULTRA low yellow/green M-Speed weapon

[Snowfiend]

Great thread guys, thanks for the updates, would love to be out there to see this!

[tigger]

well done guys!!!!!!