And what a year it was,plenty of travelling,experiences and stories, plenty of journeys both near and far and most went to plan too,the 2007 review will follow soon
Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Saturday 29 December 2007
Monday 17 December 2007
UK Time Attack visits Tsukuba

The cars were:
Zen Performance Subaru Impreza (2007 Champion)
RC Developments Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 (winner of Round 2 2007)
Fensport Toyota Celica
Sumo Power Nissan 350Z

In October the cars were shipped to Japan where they were stored in the Do-Luck warehouse,Mr Ito doing a lot of the behind the scenes work on the Japan side.
Unfortunatley - as much as I wanted to I just could not go, and I knew this so for once it was not so bad being sat 12,000 miles away watching it all unfurl!



Onto December and all the cars arrived safely, but during some dyno tuning for the Japanese fuel the Zen car sheared a cam sprocket - not good. After a miraculous overnight rebuild completed at 5am it was off to the track, where a misssed gearchange caused the Fensport cars engine let go in a big way and with a few custom parts installed that are not available in Japan (strangely!!) a standard 3S-GTE was installed, which although greatly down on power at least made the car mobile again, with a best time of 1.04


More bad luck, with the Zen car throwing a rod though the block,caused by oil surge,a common fault with tuned Impreza engines - but before this,driver Phil Glew managed a 58.5 second lap, good enough for 11th overall!!

A very trouble free trip for the RC lads a testiment to their work



The Sumo Car with Andy Barnes at the wheel set a best time of 1.03.5, later Tarzan Yamada improved on this slightly with a 1.03. With a track the size of Tsukuba (1.29miles) half a second is a big difference!


2008 should be good!!
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