EgoKillerEVO

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Or at least thats what the rumor floating around is from yesterday's Super Lap Battle Finals. Just for reference, the previous record set by the JIC/Hankook S15 back in April was a 1:48.766. Anybody there that can confirm that stupid fast time? Specs on the car, driver, track conditions, etc.? Any other impressive times?

EDIT:

Unofficial times...

HKS Evo (Unlimited AWD) - 1:43.523
AMS Evo (Unlimited AWD) - 1:48.772
M-Workz 350Z (Unlimited RWD) - 1:52.9xx
AJ Racing S2000 (Limited RWD) - 1:54.xxx

Ludikraut

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Will be very interesting to see what AMS ran in comparison to that time.

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esevo

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Wow need info on this if its true!!!

J_Taylor

It ran a 1:44 in before I left, I didn't catch its lap time for the last secion the HKS car ran, but I would not be suprised if it ran that quick...
Oh here are some photos I took..sence this thred is allready going for the buttonwill super lap, I feel no need to make another one


Buttonwillow Super Lap Photos


The HKS car was FAST








Enjoy!!!And there is a lot more photos if you follow the link!

Ike

CT230R - 1:43.523
AMS - 1:48.772
Cyber Evo - 1:48.906

The HKS car is just nuts and this is about what I expected. However, it's very impressive that AMS was able to best the Cyber Evo which shows that the AMS car is one of the best time attack cars in the world... Does anyone have results for the other classes?

smack_evo

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anyone know were gst and speedelement came in at?

MadEvo89

+1

By the way, Nice pics Jay.

kingleh@GSC

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yea... thats a bad **** evo.... my buddy co drives with NOB in super GT and told me the HKS car was coming.... so for about 2 months now i been waiting for this.... thats a VERY fast time....


not disrespect to the AMS car.. but that cyber evo time is about 2.5 years old...

the cyber evo is a lil more then a sec off the HKS cars pace at tskuba... so that be about 2.5 sec at button willow...

the AMS cars time is pretty impressive tho... def haul effin ballz....


the hks car is about as good as it gets....

moreryce

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amazing...

esevo

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yes but I think there is always room for faster times... I think we are still unlocking the true potential of the evo!!! like Mivec...

wilson1

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+1

Ralph

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Saw the runs in person there... awesome car

Richard EVO

Wow!!! Was this Config. #13 CW, which is often used for time attacks?

JTB

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I wonder if this will push forward the development of TA2...

Was it Mark or Paul driving for AMS? I would love to get their input

5 seconds is just amazing considering how fast the AMS Evo is.

chronohunter

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I was driving and it all went pretty well considering. The HKS car is gorgeous, well prepared, well driven and absolutely within the Super Street Rules. It is not however legal for the Redline events etc.. The thing to realize it that the Super Street event is run with a different rule package that the U.S. time attacks in a effort to bring the HKS and Cyber Evos to the States. Simply stated the U.S. cars are not nearly as modified as the Japanese cars.

The main difference centers around suspension and resulting CG and geometry advantages. The car is approximately two inches lower the you can run an EVO and keep the pick-up points within the U.S. rules.

The other difference is the tires, they are A048R Yokohamas but of a special compound (legal in Super Street) and much softer than even the U.S. DOT Autocross tires. They changed them each session and they were so soft the blistered(!) after each 3-4 lap stint.

This is not sour grapes, as I stated the car is legal for the Super Street event and we all signed up to run that event, nobody made us! It will be very hard for a U.S. time attack car to beat that time due to the inherent advantages of the JDM rules package and I doubt any U.S. team will build a Super Street only car. The only silver lining might be that Redline is looking at adding a Super Unlimited class which will hopefully fall in line with the JDM rule packages (listening Redline!?!) and that would give us and others a reason to build a car that could beat the HKS car. We would still need an equivalent tire though...

It was super cool to run against the HKS car as you can imagine it was fun to see it run in person. In the first practice session I followed Nob for the whole session (they hadn't dialed the car in yet and Nob was still learning the track) and the car was very impressive you could see the quickness from the above mention stuff plus the 400lb weight advantage into, through and out of every corner...Bad A** car, no doubt

It will be a fun Winter, now where's Martin's phone number...?