Goddamn I love Super GT. As if there could be nothing better than a Japanese sports car anyway, they go and build them all out of CF, make them wider than Rosie O’Donnell’s arse, tune the engines so they’re putting out the same power as a small star and then race them a super high speeds against each other around a track. Could there be anything better?
Well in fact there could and that would be if that a large majority of the pack ends up spearing off at a high speed creating much excitement and joy for all. I don’t want anyone to get hurt or anything, it’s just that everyone can appreciate a good 200kph+ accident.
Anyway, the second round of the Super GT starts tomorrow at Okayama with practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and the race itself on Sunday. This will also be the first race where the Lexus IS350 will be making its debut in the GT300 class.
Okayama is not an overly high-speed course with the longest straight being only 700 meters, and the course record is currently held by Michael Krumm who posted a 1′22.404 lap in the Motul Pitworks Z back in 2004, though there is a lot of speculation that the record may be up for grabs this year with the GT-R on the scene, and we should get some idea of whether that’s possible after the practice lap times are posted tomorrow.
I’ll keep you all posted as the weekend progresses!
- Leon.
The BEST thing would be to bring the Super GT cars here and let them whip the shit out of these pussy ass american racers in infineon or watkins glen. That would be GREAT!!!!