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And for '14 I think, DTM will switch to 2.0 turbo inline 4s.
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Yeah, they're holding off on the switch until new regs are written for both DTM & GT500.
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*Motegi Friday Great photo gallery by Endurance-Info!
http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/photo/motegi-vendredi/ *About Tetsuya Yamano Yamano says that this is not a full retirement. He decided to yield young driver the status of the 1st driver of SUBARU. It is unknown whether he will participate in SGT next season. But he says goodbye to SUBARU. http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=52361 |
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Going to miss things like this next year...
The shark teeth from the diffuser edge are on the rear wing endplates, they introduced the teeth last year, but on the wing is new this year. Last edited by TF110; 1 Nov 2013 at 20:46. |
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Eneos SC430 GT500 pole and Subaru BRZ GT300 pole.
Champion contenders Keihin HSV 2nd place, Zent SC430 4th. Going to be a great fight to the title with the Weider HSV and Petronas SC430 towards the back of the grid. The BRZ needs some luck to beat the Mugen CRZ in the title even if they win. |
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3 Nov 2013, 06:36 (Ref:3326474) | #858 | |
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Enoes SC430 drivers Yuji Kunimoto & Kazuya Oshima win Super GT at Motegi GT500 class race, second Koudai Tsukakoshi & Toshihiro Kaneishi and third Kohei Hirate & Yuji Tachikawa.
Yuji Tachikawa/Kohei Hirate (Zent SC430) are GT500 champions! It's the 3rd GT500 title for Tachikawa, 1st for Hirate. Toyota/Lexus introduced the SC430 back in 2006 and won the GT500 championship. In its final year they won the championship again. Katsuyuki Hiranaka & Bjorn Wirdheim win GT300 class at Motegi race, second Hideki Mutoh & Yuhki Nakayama and third Tetsuya Yamano & Kota Sasaki. Hideki Mutoh/Yuhki Nakayama (Mugen CR-Z GT) are the GT300 champions! 1st title for a hybrid car, 1st for both drivers. |
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Was a good race. I feel like the end was a little sad for the Keihin team. It seemed like the Denso just fell in line rather than pass. That way a Lexus car secured the drivers title. As for the CR-Z, they were mega strong all year.
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GTA Sunday press conference by Masaaki Bandoh
There is a plan for GTA to promote FIA-F4 in Japan in the future. http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=52469 |
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GTA Sunday press conference part 2
*About FIA-GT3 car BoP There are opinions that BoP of Blancpain endurance series should be refer from SGT teams. Therefore, GTA might refer also to BoP of Blancpain endurance series. But the final decision has not been made yet. http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=52470 |
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Masaaki Bandoh said: "We would liked the 57 garage in Le Mans"
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Hiroaki Odashima (Michelin): "SUPER GT is a real technological challenge."
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5 Nov 2013, 09:33 (Ref:3327413) | #867 | |
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Japanese Autosport says that new "RC" will be the new name of GT500 LF-CC.
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5 Nov 2013, 10:32 (Ref:3327436) | #868 | |
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Samurai, did the NSX GT500 do any timed laps at Motegi?
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5 Nov 2013, 10:58 (Ref:3327451) | #869 | |
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No time.
SUGO test time (@Autosport magazine) --------Oct17AM--17PM-----18AM------18PM------Topspeed --------------------------------------------------------(Main straight/Back straight) GTR:--1'37"393--1'15"301--1'14"290--1'14"522--(255km/h, 248km/h) LF-CC:1'17"210--1'15"515--1'14"636--1'14"456--(256km/h, 249km/h) NSX:--1'23"391--1'15"893--1'16"168--1'16"781--(246km/h, 242km/h) Test schedule --------Nov5-------Nov6-------Nov7----------Nov19----Nov20----Nov28 NSX:-------------------------------------------Fuji/DL--Fuji/BS--Motegi/BS LF-CC:Motegi/BS--Motegi/BS--Motegi/YH-------------------------------- GTR:--Motegi/MI--Motegi/MI--Motegi/BS,YH----------------------------- |
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Autosport web Motegi test report
*GTR (MI) (Yanagida, Quintarelli, Motoyama) AM: ? PM:1'40"982 *LF-CC (YH) (Ara) AM:1'42"420 PM:1'42"089 (Temperature:23C, Road surface temperature:30C) http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=52529 |
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5 Nov 2013, 20:21 (Ref:3327672) | #871 | |
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A 1:40.9 is faster than the Pole lap from the past race from the Eneos SC430 @1:41.367... Very good.
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Certainly quick, at any rate. I'm more concerned about how the racing ends up faring than the outright pace. The new car is slower than the previous chassis in V8 Supercars, but I'd say the racing has been particularly good this year.
The cars aren't the only factor that influences the quality of racing in Super GT vs. DTM (tire competition, traffic, BoP etc) but I worry about the former becoming more like the latter. |
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Still success ballast, tire competition, different chassis constructors. I hope it turns out, optimistic it will.
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Autosport web Motegi test report
*Nov.6 GTR(MI/?) -AM:1'41"389 -PM:1'42"382 LF-CC(BS/Tachikawa, Ishiura, Nakajima, Rossiter) -AM:1'42"716 -PM:1'42"606 *Nov.7(Wet condition) GTR(YH/Yasuda, BS/Matsuda) -AM:1'54"233(YH) -PM:1'51"457(BS) LF-CC(BS/Tachikawa, Ishiura) -AM:1'52"158 -PM:1'50"653 http://as-web.jp/news/info.php?c_id=2&no=52568 |
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7 Nov 2013, 22:33 (Ref:3328664) | #875 | |
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So far the GTR is the faster car it would seem. But are they testing ultimate pace? It would be nice to see a lap chart to determine the times on a stint.
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