Tsukuba Circuit November 2013.

Last Friday, I made my way to Tsukuba Circuit.

先週の金曜日、筑波サーキットに行ってきました。


The car went really well :-D

The new suspension settings (I raised the front 15mm a little while back) allowed me an extra 5~600 rpm in 4th round the last corner and to be honest I feel I could have perhaps squeezed a little more out of it.

今日はＦＲＯＮＴの車高を１５ｍｍＵＰしたおかげで、最終コーナーは４速で＋５００ｒｐｍ。
かなり効果ありました　^_^

This combined with the extra power from the Turbo change and tune at Garage GForce last week meant I was able to maintain a pace that before would have meant pushing harder. I was also up-shifting at lower rpm than before.

あとは、新しいRSタービンをつけてから初めての走行。

One obvious difference due to the extra torque, was before I would be reaching for 5th gear on the back straight right at the end just before the braking area and often wouldn't bother, but today I was selecting 5th half way down the straight when I was going for it.
The brakes also seemed to go longer and I didn't really have any fading issues at all due to fitting Evo V Brake cooling ducts recently.

The only bad thing was, the amount of slow traffic on the Track was insane... and all things like Corollas, MX5's, MPVs and whatnot... So I only got a few clean laps my first session (only one proper one once warmed up), and not a single clean lap in my second session due to the traffic, and 3 yellow flags.....

It normally doesn't really worry me, we all have to start somewhere, but this day it was a bit extreme,

So while I was able to beat my previous best by 0.9 of a second (which is a lot on this track), I have no doubt at all there's another second or so to be had going by how much quicker I was going my second session aside from the holdups.

自己ベストタイムが出ましたが、サーキットがあんまりにも込んでいて、イエローフラッグも多く... ＴＩＭＥ　ＡＴＴＡＣＫはうまくできなかったです　(>_<)　。 でも、タイムはとりあえず１：０５.０６。

After a long day, ready for the trip home.　　エボちゃんご苦労さま

I thought this was a repair shop next to the Track.... but that Evo VIII MR was a complete car when I drove past in the morning.... The R32 was also wrecked.　　　　　　　　いつも通る道にあるこの場所は筑波サーキットのそばにあって、整備工場といつも思っていたけど、実は車を解体して、パーツを販売している所みたい。。

Spotted this AE86 coupe on my way out.　　　ハチロクみっけ

And finally, some Video from the first session, you can see the traffic I had to try and work through. Still great fun as always  :-)
最初セッションのビデオです。ちょっと込んでいたけど楽しかった。

Click on the link to watch on YouTube, or watch in the window:


Tsukuba Circuit. Nov 2013 Video link