Super GT Round 2 Okayama Starts Tomorrow!

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 [...]

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Taniguchi Set For D1GP Return

According to Auto-Otaku, Nobuteru Taniguchi (GT300’s Yunker Power Taisan Porsche driver) is set to return to his old stable at the HKS D1 team this year starting with next month’s round at Fuji. Apparently the information is posted on Nobu’s personal blog, however as it’s in Japanese and I barely know my ichis from [...]

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Nissan GT-R GT500 Test Car

I’ve been following the GT500 quite a bit lately (not so much on the blog, but in my personal time), and I think I’ve come across what I believe to be Abbadon on earth in the form of a race car…and it’s none other than Nissan’s GT-R test car.

If this isn’t the most evil-looking purebred [...]

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NSX Domination On Fuji Day 2 Testing

Yesterday at the Fuji Speedway’s first day of testing was dominated by the almighty Nissan GT-R, however today was a totally different story with the top two times being posted by Honda NSXs, from the Epson and Raybrig teams respectively.

It was raining today at Fuji, however it didn’t stop the Epson NSX bettering the previous [...]

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Calsonic Impul GT-R Records Fastest Lap @ Fuji

Testing has begun for the third round of the Japan Super GT series at the Fuji raceway with the Calsonic Impul GT-R recording the fastest lap so far with a highly respectable 1:34.878, nudging ahead of Nismo’s Motul Autech GT-R by only 11 thousandths of a second.

Round One at Suzuka was an elated victory [...]

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