It may be off season for the motorsport world, but the cold winter months in Japan certainly don’t mean there is a shortage of interesting events to head to. In fact you guys are actually quite lucky because Mike is still here in Japan and spent his day at the JCCA New Year meeting in [...]
I am going to move along with the coverage from the Tsukuba Super Battle now with one final round up of pictures highlighting the day’s action. You will see some new cars that I haven’t touched on yet, as well as some we have seen already and that I couldn’t resist reposting more pix of, [...]
As cool as watching the clock while famous drivers wrestle cars around a track is, one of the most interesting and more fascinating aspects of time attack for me has always been the cars themselves. So while I really do enjoy to shoot action, it’s the paddock that attracts me the most at the yearly [...]
After a somewhat disappointing event last year, spoiled by snow, rain and a track that didn’t want to dry, the Tsukuba Super Battle couldn’t have been blessed with better conditions today at Tsukuba. Freezing air and cloudless blue skies are always the perfect recipe for optimal time attack conditions, and the 78 cars in attendance [...]
I’m going to start off this spotlight-o-rama from the Roadster & Rotary meeting with a car I think most will agree Mazda should have built. Why the 13B never officially made an appearance in the NA or NB chassis is beyond most people; I can understand that they wanted to keep RX-7 line up well [...]
Sendai Hi-land is the track that Nissan chose to develop the R35 GT-R on. This isn’t at all surprising as it’s one of the most challenging and technical circuits in Japan, throwing a variety of corners, elevation changes and chassis-testing sections into the mix. It’s also an awesome track to shoot at, which is precisely [...]
As the long and seemingly unrelenting summer in Japan comes to an end, there is one event that for a few years now has marked the seasonal transition for me. I am of course talking of the Roadster & Rotary Meeting, held every September at the beautiful Sendai Hi-land Circuit, a celebration of all the [...]
It’s been a tough last couple of weeks for the Japanese teams that will be participating at this year’s World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) down in Australia. With everyone after a win, or at least a podium finish, there has been a ton of fine tuning, testing and developing that needed to be done and [...]
I’m getting tired of rain. Over the last few weeks I’ve had to endure far too many rainy days, and while shooting in the wet can have its advantages, it didn’t do anything for today’s proceedings. You see when you are trying to put on a track event, with time-attack sessions thrown in for extra [...]
To complete the 2011 Roadster and Rotary Meeting properly I though a nice selection of desktops was in order, so I’ve chosen my five favorite shots from the event… …and resized them up for you in either Widescreen or Standard sizes. So go on over to the Desktops section and download what you like from [...]
It’s no wonder people have began calling this the event of the year. If you are into tuned-beyond-belief street cars, battling it out for the fastest lap there is pretty much nothing that can touch the World Time Attack Challenge. Japan, Australia and the US each have their own dedicated group of blisteringly fast time [...]
When I headed to Daikoku Futo to see the Japanese entries to this year's WTAC being unloaded onto the port, there was one car that really grabbed my attention and it wasn't one of the four time attack cars. It was this FD3S Totsuka-san of Pan Speed had rolled in with, a very nice looking [...]
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This year’s World Time Attack Challenge in Eastern Creek is going to be one hell of a showdown. On top of the tantalizing selection of cars from Australia, the US and New Zealand the above four Japan entries will be put on a ship later on today. I headed out to Daikoku Futo early this [...]
The Panspeed RX7 has now moved within firing range of the Sierra Sierra Evo and taken over second position with a time of 1:32.454. This pushes the Tomei Cusco Impreza down to third. :R
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