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In my experience Tsukuba isn't a good place for testing because it's small and there isn't much to it. Accelerate for a bit, hairpin, accelerate for a bit, hairpin, most cars can do that about the same on such a short track. I've tested many cars there (in GT5) that were within a half second of each other but once you go to a real track with technical bits and long straights suddenly big discrepancies appear. Motegi East would be a good benchmark track, it has slow turns, medium speed turns, fast sweepers, a long straight and even some elevation change. If two cars are closely matched there then they will likely be closely matched at most tracks. 👍
Is there a certain era of Japanese cars we're aiming for? Considering there's umpteen trillion Japanese cars in the game I think it should be fairly easy to find 3 comparable cars, one slightly faster car and one slightly slower car as long as we're not trying to stick to the most modern models. Anything before the 90's probably won't fare well and sticking to FR would be best (though the Type-R seemed to hold up ok but it will lose off the starting line). I'd recommend against bringing any AWD into the mix, it will dominate off the line and then be difficult to pass (especially at Tsukuba).
I won't be sticking with the RX-8 since it appears to be quite a bit faster than the others. I'm not fast enough to tackle the BRZ though so I'll have to reconsider my selection. I won't be able to do any testing tonight but will have plenty of time fordrinking testing tomorrow evening. 👍
Is there a certain era of Japanese cars we're aiming for? Considering there's umpteen trillion Japanese cars in the game I think it should be fairly easy to find 3 comparable cars, one slightly faster car and one slightly slower car as long as we're not trying to stick to the most modern models. Anything before the 90's probably won't fare well and sticking to FR would be best (though the Type-R seemed to hold up ok but it will lose off the starting line). I'd recommend against bringing any AWD into the mix, it will dominate off the line and then be difficult to pass (especially at Tsukuba).
Looking forward to this event, as was having some great racing with @BrandonW77 on our last outing...Although its clear now he has a faster car
I won't be sticking with the RX-8 since it appears to be quite a bit faster than the others. I'm not fast enough to tackle the BRZ though so I'll have to reconsider my selection. I won't be able to do any testing tonight but will have plenty of time for
My original main focus was to try and stay as clean as possible, so I should transfer some of that focus to keeping my position and not letting go so easily 👍
Probably about the same speed as the RX-7, really. The half second difference in the laps I ran was pretty much all in the first set of esses (T2-3-4-5) where the RX-7's rotation and pointiness gives it an edge (though it's an edge you can fall off of really easily 
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