2010 Japanese Super GT Thread - Page 12

chernaudi · 25 Jul 2010, 01:34 (Ref:2731990)

Only info I've found is that it's a 4.2 liter DOHC V8.

rich07 · 25 Jul 2010, 01:48 (Ref:2731992)

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Originally Posted by chernaudi

Only info I've found is that it's a 4.2 liter DOHC V8.

Thanks! I'm interested to know what make the engine is-the only engine that I can think meets those specs off the top of my head would be Audi and Jaguar-that is if its a production engine and not a pure race engine like the Judd in the Mosler.

The IC · 25 Jul 2010, 08:32 (Ref:2732053)

Quote:

Originally Posted by rich07

Thanks! I'm interested to know what make the engine is-the only engine that I can think meets those specs off the top of my head would be Audi and Jaguar-that is if its a production engine and not a pure race engine like the Judd in the Mosler.

its got a Toyota/Lexus 1UZ-FE V8, its on the team info page on the SuperGT website

Japanese Samurai · 25 Jul 2010, 10:38 (Ref:2732093)

KEIHIN HSV win
SUGO round race result
http://supergt.net/supergt/2010/1005/1005race_e.htm
Digest movie
http://supergt.net/supergt/movie/new...0/1005move.htm
Photo
http://car.nifty.com/cs/catalog/car_...25283167_1.htm
http://car.nifty.com/cs/catalog/car_...25283166_1.htm

Japanese Samurai · 25 Jul 2010, 12:02 (Ref:2732121)

AUTOPOLIS round returns to the 2011 S-GT calendar.
http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=28266

2011 races
championship race 8 round plus special race 1 round

Japanese Samurai · 25 Jul 2010, 12:47 (Ref:2732141)

Motul GTR(#23) slowed down.
It is a cause that the tire debris hit the cutoff switch on the bonnet!

rich07 · 25 Jul 2010, 23:03 (Ref:2732915)

Quote:

Originally Posted by The IC

its got a Toyota/Lexus 1UZ-FE V8, its on the team info page on the SuperGT website

Why didnt I look there first?

Thanks.

What a finish at Sugo! 25 thousandths of a second! Reminds me of when a similar finish happened between two Supras some while back at the same track.

Great to see the Shiden win in GT300 too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Motul GTR(#23) slowed down.
It is a cause that the tire debris hit the cutoff switch on the bonnet!

Wow, never heard of that happening before-what are the chances?

Japanese Samurai · 26 Jul 2010, 23:51 (Ref:2733712)

Masaaki Bandoh(Chairman of GTA) referred the regulation unification affairs with DTM at a press conference in SUGO.
He met Mario Theissen in Tokyo on May 18.
Theissen said that BMW was examining the motorsport activity on the union regulation done in Japan, Germany, and the US.
JAF and GTA act aiming at the technical regulation union in 2015.
The member of JAF inspected DTM(round 4), and they made some proposals ITR.
JAF and GTA think that regulations concerning the engine will become problems.
Bandoh says that ITR has the intention that executes the union regulation from 2015 in 2012.
Japanese manufacturers don't have clarified image about the exchange of DTM and S-GT yet.
So Bandoh appeals to them to use S-GT more positively as a marketing tool.
http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=28326

ptclaus98 · 27 Jul 2010, 01:09 (Ref:2733728)

Can anyone point me to some ballpark budgets to run a full season GT300 effort?

Japanese Samurai · 27 Jul 2010, 15:07 (Ref:2734016)

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Originally Posted by ptclaus98

Can anyone point me to some ballpark budgets to run a full season GT300 effort?

A part of top team has spent 80 million yen or more.
If the result is not asked, it might be enough by the half the price.

ptclaus98 · 27 Jul 2010, 18:50 (Ref:2734120)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

A part of top team has spent 80 million yen or more.
If the result is not asked, it might be enough by the half the price.

Thank you.

rich07 · 28 Jul 2010, 01:16 (Ref:2734362)

Thats cheaper then I thought, although I'd bet good money that the big three in GT500 spend a lot more. I read somewhere years ago that Nissan spend more on Super GT then a factory WRC effort-would that be possible?

cptkablamo · 28 Jul 2010, 02:11 (Ref:2734379)

I take it that 80million yen per year excludes purchasing the car? Do you know a ball park figure for a GT500 or GT300 car?

HORNDAWG · 28 Jul 2010, 02:32 (Ref:2734388)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cptkablamo

I take it that 80million yen per year excludes purchasing the car? Do you know a ball park figure for a GT500 or GT300 car?

One would think at about 1 million that it would not include the car.

L.P.

rich07 · 28 Jul 2010, 03:08 (Ref:2734394)

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Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

One would think at about 1 million that it would not include the car.

L.P.

No it wouldnt, it would just be the budget to run the car over the year.

BBSB · 28 Jul 2010, 13:46 (Ref:2734617)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

AUTOPOLIS round returns to the 2011 S-GT calendar.
http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=28266

2011 races
championship race 8 round plus special race 1 round

Great! I like Autopolis, what race will be replaced? I hope it's one of the 2 Fuji ones, it would suck not having Sugo or Motegi or Okayama.

But why only 8 rounds? I thought 9 was insuficient but 8? I think that really sucks. It gives no chance to teams that are having bad luck (like Motul GTR or ARTA HSV this year) since that are not enough races to recover some ground.

If it's not possible to add more events/rounds Why don't they just make 2 races per round with the existing ones? first race on saturday and the second race on sunday, practice on friday! It's a no brainer. And give both drivers of each team the oportunity to shine, i.e. first driver takes first full race and the other driver takes the 2nd race. I think it sucks (in the current format) having one driver in a team doing a great job in the first stint only for his teammate to fail miserably in the 2nd stint, ruining a great result for the team, and vice-versa. That must be very demotivating for a racing driver.

BBSB · 28 Jul 2010, 13:54 (Ref:2734618)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

KEIHIN HSV win
SUGO round race result
http://supergt.net/supergt/2010/1005/1005race_e.htm
Digest movie
http://supergt.net/supergt/movie/new...0/1005move.htm
Photo
http://car.nifty.com/cs/catalog/car_...25283167_1.htm
http://car.nifty.com/cs/catalog/car_...25283166_1.htm

Samurai did you watch the race? Could you please tell me what happened to Izawa (Raybrig HSV) when he run off track? Was that a spin without touching other cars? (Izawa spins a lot doesn't he?

).

BBSB · 28 Jul 2010, 14:12 (Ref:2734624)

Oh I almost forgot, the incident between ARTA-HSV and Petronas-SC430. What really happened there? who caused the incident? was it Firman? See in this video at 1:13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAUnb44qcg
In the first incident (ARTA-HSV/Kraft-SC430) it was clearly Oshima in the SC who was at fault as he didn't leave enough space forcing Firman to cut through the grass, but in this 2nd incident it's impossible to tell who's the culprit as obviously this video only shows the end of the incident.

Japanese Samurai · 28 Jul 2010, 23:59 (Ref:2734887)

Izawa tried to pass the GT300 car, went out to the dart, and did spin.
He commented that it was his mistake.

Firman pushed Lotterer from behind, and Lotterer did spin.(Lotterer's comment)
But no penalty for Firman.

BBSB · 29 Jul 2010, 01:07 (Ref:2734900)

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Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Izawa tried to pass the GT300 car, went out to the dart, and did spin.
He commented that it was his mistake.

Firman pushed Lotterer from behind, and Lotterer did spin.(Lotterer's comment)
But no penalty for Firman.

Thanks

Firman needs to calm down. I think he's getting increasingly frustrated with so many poor results/crashes (most of it not his fault) that it's making him impacient & overly agressive.

Japanese Samurai · 29 Jul 2010, 23:07 (Ref:2735527)

Racing Views updated an interesting article about Honda GT/FN engine.
The engine of Super GT(HR10EG) and the engine of Formula Nippon(HR10E) are basically the same.
The engine of FN limits the rotational speed with ECU while the engine of S-GT adjusts the performance with air restrictor.
The engine of Honda differs from the engine of Toyota, and has installed the cam gear train at the front.
A heavy cam gear train was located at the front because it had given priority to use to Formula car by Honda.
http://sites.google.com/site/racingv...genba/r2genba3

chernaudi · 30 Jul 2010, 00:39 (Ref:2735564)

And that it's the old Acura LMP2 engine/current HPD ALMS LMP engine(at least according to some).

Japanese Samurai · 9 Aug 2010, 05:55 (Ref:2741718)

Provisional 2011 Super GT calendar
R1 4/2-3 Okayama
R2 4/30-5/1 Fuji
R3 6/18-19 Sepang
R4 7/30-31 SUGO
R5 8/20-21 Suzuka
R6 9/10-11 Fuji
R7 10/1-2 AUTOPOLIS
R8 10/15-16 Motegi
Special round 11/12-13 Fuji

Juntos · 9 Aug 2010, 05:57 (Ref:2741720)

More of the same.

Yakuncha · 9 Aug 2010, 19:59 (Ref:2742111)

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Originally Posted by Juntos

More of the same.

Not really, only 1 visit to Suzuka and a return to Autopolis

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