Tsukuba Time Attack

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Notice : I was looking for a GT4 equivalent to the famous real-life "Super Lap" challenge on Tsukuba circuit, and the only thing I came across here at GTP was nitro_2005's Tsukuba Super Lap Challenge, which looks pretty much dead, mainly because its ranking hasn't been updated since March 31st.
In addition to that, I think that the car selection over there wasn't very clear, and that the lack of replay request added to the general vague and blurry atmosphere.
So I thought I should give the concept another try and set up the :


Tsukuba_Time_Attack.jpg


Leaderboard


Game mode :
GT Mode / World Courses / Tsukuba Circuit / Free run

Car specifications :
any japanese domestic market road car with the following restrictions :
  • displacement lower than 2,050 cc ;
  • all power upgrades allowed ;
  • no NOS ;
  • weight reduction stage 3 ;
  • wing allowed ;
  • sports tyres only ;
  • all other parts are allowed.
Race rules :
Standard clean OLR rules :
  • 2 wheels on track at all time ;
  • rumble strips are part of the track ;
  • any tarmac, concrete or cobblestone area is part of the track ;
  • no contact with walls or objects, visible or invisible ;
  • if you're not 100% sure that you lap is clean, then consider it dirty ;
  • no hybrids ;
  • no cheating of any kind ;
  • nothing that goes against the spirit of the rules ;
  • save your replay ('save ghost' icon).
Submission and deadline :
Post your best times in the thread and make sure you indicate what car you used.
It's a permanent challenge : there is no deadline.
Feel free to share :
  • car settings ;
  • racing tips ;
  • replays...
Categories :
In addition to the overall 'no limit' board, times are split in different categories depending on the car used :
  • 2 litre : cars with a displacement ranging from 1,850 to 2,049 cc (96 cars) ;
  • 1.8 litre : cars with a displacement ranging from 1,650 to 1,849 cc (22 cars) ;
  • 1.6 litre : cars with a displacement ranging from 1,450 to 1,649 cc (40 cars) ;
  • under 1.6 litre : cars with a displacement smaller than 1,450 cc (49 cars) ;
  • midgets : cars with a displacement smaller than 800 cc and a total length smaller than 3650 mm (32 cars) ;
  • rotaries : cars with a rotary engine (22 cars, excluded from the displacement-based categories) ;
  • 6 cylinders : cars with a 6-cylinder engine (15 cars) ;
  • FF : front engine, front wheel drive (81 cars) ;
  • FR : front engine, rear wheel drive (83 cars) ;
  • MR : midship engine, rear wheel drive (13 cars) ;
  • 4WD : four-wheel drive (49 cars) ;
Time verification :
Fastest overall times and fastest times per category will have to be backed up by a replay :
  • all 10 fastest overall times will be requested to provide a replay ;
  • all 3 fastest times per category will be requested to provide a replay too ;
  • requested replays must be uploaded within 7 days ;
  • failure to do so will result in the submitted time to be removed from the board ;
  • video replays are not accepted, only .max, .xps or .sps files can be verified.
Real life Super lap :
The record holder street car at Tsukuba is the Mitsubishi Cyber Evo, with a fastest lap at 55.801, see the first 2 minutes of the video below.
(there's no need to reply and mention the HKS that ran 54.739 : it's NOT a street car and it was designed only to break that record.)



 

TSUKUBA TIME ATTACK
LEADERBOARDS
12 FASTEST CARS

#..Driver...............Make / Model / Year......................Time.....
1..hsh..................Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'51.308.
2..hsh..................Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR GSR….0'53.002.
3..jake73...............Mazda RX-7 Type R Bathurst R (FD) '01....0'53.325.
4..stidriver............Subaru Impreza Sedan WRX STi spec C (GD….0'53.716.
5..Luxy.................Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII GSR '0….0'54.144.
6..hsh..................Tommy kaira ZZ-S '00.....................0'54.484.
7..Mr P.................Honda S2000 '03..........................0'54.900.
8..Luxy.................Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR Tomm….0'54.981.
9..jake73...............Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (S15) '99......0'56.020.
10.AngelCreator.........Mazda RX-8 Type S (J) '03................0'56.174.
11.Bigracer.............Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI RS Tommi….0'56.533.
12.jake73...............Nissan Skyline GTS-t Type M (R32) '91....0'56.548.
see all times - see all fastest cars
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Last updated : 1/10/2006


TSUKUBA TIME ATTACK
LEADERBOARDS
12 FASTEST DRIVERS

#..Driver...............Make / Model / Year......................Time.....
1..hsh..................Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'51.308.
2..stidriver............Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'51.859.
3..Mr P.................Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'52.401.
4..jake73...............Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'52.658.
5..SuperT...............Mazda RX-7 Type R Bathurst R (FD) '01....0'53.661.
6..Luxy.................Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII GSR '0….0'54.144.
7..GT Pro...............Subaru Impreza Sedan WRX STi spec C (GD….0'54.407.
8..Bigracer.............Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02......0'54.679.
9..Kent.................Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR GSR….0'54.709.
10.RL performance.......Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR GSR….0'54.874.
11.Gt3Emperor...........Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR Tomm….0'55.195.
12.ROB 256R.............Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (S15) '99......0'56.070.
see all times - see all fastest drivers
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other categories :
2.0 litre | 1.8 litre | 1.6 litre | < 1.6 litre
midgets | rotaries | 6-cylinder
FF | FR | MR | 4WD |
Last updated : 1/10/2006
 
Nice idea Cyril. 👍 Can't rep 'til I've spread some,sorry

I'm off to find some of the midgets. :D

As soon as I've cut some time off of my WRS 71 race. :(

Edit: Car lists for each category, you're spoiling us Cyril. 👍
 
I'm in. I mostly get bored with a WRS race by Monday...

So basically, 2l Japanese Stock cars, fully modded? Nicey-oh. Does the Daihatsu Midget qualify?
 
I love this track from way back in Prologue days with the prius :cool: was wondering if you might put up GT mode and Arcade mode as 2 seperate results boards :D for a lazy guy like me who just likes to basically jump in and drive I would definitely get a few laps in on a few arcade equivalents .... and probably try a few GTmode when someone had posted a top running set up .... see! I'm that lazy ;)

:P
 
@ Darren and Metar : look in post #1, I added links to an exhaustive eligible cars list for each category :D
@ Ron : I'll consider adding an Arcade equivalent, ok, but I want to see first if racers are interested in this challenge.
 
Concerning Midgets... Why are 750cc cars, such as the Toyota 800, not midgets? I think that such engines, with only 45HP (2-cylinder Boxer, mind you), should qualify for midgets. Plus, the Honda 500-600 are both below the minimum "Midget" requirement... What are they?

I think there should be slightly more "midgets" allowed - and that "Midget" will be a class limited only by a maximum displacement. I mean, why can't 300-600cc cars compete? And upto 800cc is still very "midget'y"...

I'm running a top-modified (and oiled) used Honda 600. Anyone up for a personal battle? (Have to wait, though, untill sub-650cc cars are approved)

EDIT: Whether approved or not - I'll be running in the slowest category for a while.
 
Sounds wise enough. I'm changing the midget category to match its real definition : car length under 3450mm.

Edit : limiting the category to a maximum displacement of 800 or even 750 cc would include the 118hp stock 4WD Sirion X4 which would smoke any other car in the category, so I'd rather stick to a maximum length.
 
So why not make a single exception, or something that would rule out the Sirion? Something like "Midgets: 2WD, 800CC"?
 
That's what the minimum length does : ruling out the Sirion while allowing the Mitsubishi Dangan ZZ, Subaru 360, Honda S500, S600, S800...
But I'll change it another time to : under 800cc and under 3650mm, so as to include the Toyota Sports 800 and exclude the Honda City Turbo II.
 
Here are some times for S600 drivers. I'm using a 100PS S600 (Used car lot, Oil, Wash, All mods except Nitrous), with (Still) stock settings - only brake balance was altered to 6/4. Not using 5th gear at all, and the suspension isn't the best, but... It's only a matter of time (and time on the PS2). I can break through the 1'10 barrier alright, with a little fine-tuning.

0'17.087
0'36(or 7).2xx
1'11.174

This makes me the fastest driver for all the classes this car is eligible for :sly:


Beautifull car. Really.
 
Here ya go Cyril, first official time for the leaderboard, which puts me top of it. :D

SuperT - Daihatsu Midget II D-type '98 - 1'08.938

Fully modded including,

Race exhaust.
Race brakes and bias valve.
Engine balance, port/polish and racing chip.
Race tranny, triple clutch, race flywheel, 1.5 way differential and carbon prop-shaft.
Stage 2 turbo.
Race suspension.
Sports soft tyres.
Stage 3 weight reduction, rigidity increase and body refresher, (with 34,000 miles 'ish this was needed).

Oh...And an oil change.

I'll be expecting the whoosh of air as someone blows past me sometime soon. :D.

And the ghost replay is here.

View attachment SuperT Midget II @ TTA.max

:cheers:

Darren.

Edit: Sorry Metar, I'm top of the board now. :sly:
 
Oh, but for a second or two... I was. How much power does the Midget-II have?

Darren, get on the MSN sometime, could you?
 
1'09.353 for me in a fully modded (130hp) Mitsu Minica Dangan ZZ. Fastest FF so far :D
 
Oh, but for a second or two... I was. How much power does the Midget-II have?

Darren, get on the MSN sometime, could you?

Power-to-weight works out around 5.3XX in the fully modded '98 Midget.
 
Which reminds me... Cars from the manufacturer-tuning, are they eligible? The TRD Celica, as an example (Not sure about this specific car, but hey, I don't know GT4 cars that well).

EDIT: That explains some stuff. My S600 has 100PS and around 650KG, so that's an inferior PWR...
 
No, road cars only. Cars purchased from the tuners are not eligible (that only concerns 6 cars though, because the displacement is unknown for most of them).
 
Alright. I thought the TRD Celica might be a quick FF...

However, I did beat Y'all by being the first one with a gallery. As you might have figured out by now, I really dig this feature.
S600 - A Tsukuba Time-Attack - first in a series. Every car I'll run will get one.

By the way: Can we run multiple cars for multiple categories?
 
Think I'll try the older midget next, three wheels on my wagon. :D

Argh! Just noticed the word daan at the bottom of the page, prepare to be used to wipe the floor with. :nervous:
 
Think I'll try the older midget next, three wheels on my wagon. :D

Argh! Just noticed the word daan at the bottom of the page, prepare to be used to wipe the floor with. :nervous:

Daan? I only see Randommcchicken, which is just as bad.

Cyril, so far we've got three entrants, all covering the drivetrain section (except 4WD), and all in the Midget category. Any 4WD Midget available?
 
One can enter as many times as he wishes.
And yes, there are some 4WD midgets : Daihatsu Move's, Suzuki Alto's, Kei and Wagon-R.
 
Daan? I only see Randommcchicken, which is just as bad.

Cyril, so far we've got three entrants, all covering the drivetrain section (except 4WD), and all in the Midget category. Any 4WD Midget available?

Well that sounds like a challenge so ill be back in a few hours :sly:
 
sometime cyril will have to explain his day rithm.
how come he gets to do a job, a family, a house at the med, race himself and be host to a google of series?
anyway - it's good for gtp and good for me so i'm not complaining.

as soon as i find time i'll give it a go. my first choice would be

a special evo
any s2000 (thanks to wrs 71)
an rx7 i like a lot

later all. anyone interested to get the tsukuba luxy off cyril's chest?
 
Honda S2000 '03 - ( Full mod / S3 Tyres / Oil Change ) - 12.999 / 29.512 = 54.900

The first car I have tried and it's a blast 👍 ... cheers! :cheers:
 
I didn't get the last sentence... You mean, if someone would make a leaderboard a la WRS?
yep. he's busy enough as it is and since all times will be published here anyone can keep a matrix of names, cars and times.
 
How comes GT4 manages times that only top racecars can manage? I mean, 0'54, that's damn fast for a street-car...

BTW, I ran my S600 laps without a spoiler, since none is attachable. Could you guys post the spoiler-non-spoiler thing too?

EDIT: I'd volunteer, but I've got lots of important stuff this week: Sister's birthday, WRS Team-event, Homework, School Started today...

Maybe I could take over next week. I always wanted to maintain some leaderboard.

EDIT 2: By Saturday I should be able to start maintaining...
 
No sweat concerning the leaderboards. I just finished an Excel spreadsheet that makes all 12 boards automatically.
I just have to type in the driver name, the time and choose the car from a dropbox. :D
 
ok - as usual you got it all worked out. on top of all else you obviously can manage. chapeau!
 
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