2012 World Time Attack Challenge - Eastern Creek, Australia Aug 10th to 11th

[F50GTPlus]

7 Tune has announced that Hattori will be the driver for the Panspeed RX8 and was also prexent for the shakedowns of both the Voltex S2000 and Hurricane RX7 at Fuji Speedway... both were driven by Taniguchi who will also alternate between the two in Australia... in slightly wet conditions both cars lapped in the 1'45"s and 46's
http://www.7tune.com/world-exclusive-re-amemiya-hurricane-fd-rx7-shakedown-at-fuji-speedway/

for comparisson the Cyber Evo's all time best run was a 1'41''5 several years back and more recently Garage Revolution's best time before last year's WTAC was a 1'41"2
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/index...before-sydney/

also here is another brief article on the team America build before it heads overseas in a container to Australia
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/index...-midnight-oil/

MCA Suspensions also recently set up their own blog for fans to follow their time attack drift and other various shop cars as they progress
http://mcablog.com/

[aneesh99]

Let's hope there isn't as much controvesy as last year...

[F50GTPlus]

With as much money as these teams put into their cars there is bound to be some controversy as soon as someone starts losing or even blown away haha... also some more info here on the Panspeed RX8
http://www.7tune.com/news-panspeed-r...ar-and-driver/

more news on the remaining cars to be officially revealed can be found either on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/#!/WorldTimeAttack
or the WTAC Official Web Site
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/

[I Rosputnik]

I wonder if the Lotus will return this year. That always felt like the dark horse of WTAC that could win, but no one would put money on.

[I Rosputnik]

Nemo is officially announced on the entry list.

[slummingangel]

Originally Posted by I Rosputnik

Nemo is officially announced on the entry list.

short clip from it's shakedown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhiZLjj_VGU

[F50GTPlus]

Originally Posted by I Rosputnik

I wonder if the Lotus will return this year. That always felt like the dark horse of WTAC that could win, but no one would put money on.

Looks like they will be... not sure what sort of developments they have made to the car
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/index...ack-to-attack/

As well as the S15 with more radical aero developments
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/index...wn-at-tsukuba/

[F50GTPlus]

Panspped has finally been announced as the next Japanese entry with their RX8
http://www.worldtimeattack.com/index...ree-rotor-rx8/

In it's previous state of tune it had lapped Tsukuba in 59.741... hopefully with the new improvements driver will be Naoki Hattori who also has Super GT and Indy Car experience will be able to set competitive times at Eastern Creek
http://re-xtreme.blogspot.com/2011/12/tsukuba-super-battle-2011-result.html

http://www.7tune.com/news-panspeed-r...er/#more-17594
similar to the approach taken by Garage Revolution and their RX8, Panspeed converted the car to left hand drive to clear room for the NA 20B's exhaust... the RX8 will certainly make more power than their previous RX7 but it may not be as light or as refined in other departments

[F50GTPlus]

There is a rumor circulating that Nemo did their engine in during testing... I believe they also have two others in varying states of tune hopefully the damage was minimal

[I Rosputnik]

That's not sounding good...

Some news for the Kiwis, RevolutionNZ returns!

[F50GTPlus]

Looks like quite a few teams should be hitting 300 on the main straight... the real challenge is who can take the first turn without lifting

[F50GTPlus]

Unfortunately it looks like Team USA will not be making it to WTAC after a mis-shipment of the car to China by the shipping company... they were informed there is no way the car could make it to Australia in time for the competition but will make it back to LA by late August where it will be developed for the Super Lap Battle finals at Buttonwillow

http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_artic...wtac-2012.aspx

Also there are rumors of early laptimes from Nemo being in the 1:29 range already... if true this would be a promising start for their platform and put the heat on the other competitors to find lower laptimes right away

[I Rosputnik]

China? How to do get China mixed up with Australia?

Anyway fingers crossed for Red Brick Racing!

[F50GTPlus]

Yeah sending the car to China is just bizzare... I would hope that they are fully refunded for the shipping companies blunder

and with Tilton Interiors smashing out a 1:27.3100 vs Nemo 1:26.9130... but it's still early so who knows how much either car has left in it

[F50GTPlus]

In the early stages AUS is walking away with the competition... but Under Suzuki who is admittedly having some trouble with the new turn 6 isn't too far off the pace in 4th

1. 1.26:9130 Nemo Chris Eaton Mitsubishi Evo 9
2. 1.27:3100 Tilton Interiors G. Walden Mitsubishi Evo 9
3. 1.29:2470 MCA Suspension Earl bamber Nissan S13

Pulse racing is surprisingly off pace, hopefully nothing broke