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When the touring car championship started up in the state's central west it was more slide than style, writes Daniel Lewis.

When the touring car championship started up in the state's central west it was more slide than style, writes Daniel Lewis.

WHEN he's had a bad day, Harry Morgan doesn't turn to a night on the town or take-away food, but instead takes his Ferrari out for a spin on the open road. With four cars sitting in his gar

Nissan is really becoming an adventurous mass-market brand - at least in Japan where the market comprises a lot more than just workhorses and plain-looking passenger cars.

Nissan is really becoming an adventurous mass-market brand - at least in Japan where the market comprises a lot more than just workhorses and plain-looking passenger cars.

The Global Tuner Grand Prix is a spectator event inviting top performance tuners and racers from around the world to compete at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The GTGP is similar to international “time attack” competitions held in Europe and Asia but this is the first of its kind in North America and is being held on October 22nd - 24th. This is one of four no sound restriction Pro format weekends at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.


The GTGP consists of three classes of cars open to all Import, European and Domestic vehicles. This includes Street, Tuner and Unlimited. The three different classes each are bracketed in three categories that include Front-Wheel, Rear-Wheel and All-Wheel Drive. In addition to these three classes, GTGP will accept experienced Time Trial and AutoX competitors. We welcome all the top performance tuners in the world including all OEM manufacturers.


THE GTGP Challenge Race is an all out, wheel-to-wheel 50 minute sprint race. The best of the best will compete for the top of the podium. This race will feature amateur and pro racers who always relish the chance to race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The field will consist of 60 entries of performance racers from Porsche, Corvette, Viper, BMW, Ferrari, Nissan, Subaru, EVO and more.


EVENT FEATURES:

• Car Corrals- Porsche, Audi, BMW, Corvette, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Nissan, Honda, Ferrari, Lamborghini and more.
• VIP Car Show on Sunday, located at the Yamaha Marketplace.
• Exhibitor and Manufactures displays in the main paddock as well as the Yamaha Marketplace.
• Red Carpet Gala Benefit is a fun filled party with an opportunity to mingle with the competitors and automotive executives taking place on Saturday evening October 23rd. Presentation of the GTGP competitors “Best in Show” award will be given based on participant votes. Key note speakers will highlight the evening’s festivities with appearances by celebrities and motorsports professionals.

RULES:


Complete rules for the Global Tuner Grand Prix and the Global Tuner Challenge Race can be found on our website, www.globaltunergp.com.

This video demonstrates an advantage of a STILLEN urethane front lip spoiler over a fiberglass or carbon fiber part. A fiberglass or carbon fiber piece would have broken into 1000 tiny shards.



I ended up with 2 wheels off over the last strip of curbing at the top. It grabbed my front splitter, balled it up into a pretzel and spit it out the back of the car. Other than being a little scraped up and my KAE paint flaking off, it's in good shape. Stillen said they designed it to be flexible just for this purpose, if you hit something on track, it can simply bend and then flex back into shape instead of cracking. Worked just like they said it would...

If you watch the rear camera closely at about 0:20, you can see it shoot out the back end.









Source: NAGTROC

The Boulder City Council has set a special public meeting at 8 a.m. Sept. 9 to discuss the controversy surrounding City Manager Vicki Mayes registering a vehicle in Montana and a review of Mayes’s job performance.

Making big power on the GT-R is not the easiest thing but making it run right day in day out can be very frustrating. We encountered this same problem months ago with our big turbo cars and quickly sorted out a solution. Thanks to our tuner Chris Black we now have a MAF sensor capable of handling big power and big amounts of air. Kiss your P0700 codes goodbye! Stop dealing with rough driveablity problems if you are running Greddy 20G's, Big bolt on turbos or full turbo kits. These Mass Air Flow Sensors are designed and calibrated just for big power and upgraded turbo's!*Custom MAF curve which will allow for 1200bhp
*Properly scaled to retain stock like drivability with proper ECU calibration
*Gets rid of pesky transmission related codes and poor drivability
*Extensively tested and currently in use in several vehicles with EXCELLENT results
*Can be used with ANY turbo system available
*Plugs into factory wiring harness connectors. No cutting or splicing of the vehicle harness necessary

These sensors are the answer to all the drivability issues the community is having. We have been contacted by multiple customers from multiple different shops who are simply unhappy with the drivability of their cars. These sensors are a major part of the equation, which will bring proper drivability to the car. This does not require any software changes in the ECU to work around these issues. These sensors are designed properly to work WITH the factory system instead of having to modify it.

These sensor sets are sold for $999.95 and are plug and play. A Retune is required for this setup.

FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 1, 2010; Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today reported August U.S. sales of 76,827 units versus 105,312 units a year earlier, a decrease of 27 percent compared with the "Cash for Clunkers" fuelled sales in August 2009. Nissan Division sales were down 30.9 percent for the month, while sales of Infiniti vehicles rose 21.9 over a year before.

Nissan North America, Inc. today reported August U.S. sales of 76,827 units versus 105,312 units a year earlier, a decrease of 27 percent compared with the "Cash for Clunkers" fuelled sales in August 2009. Â Nissan Division sales were down 30.9 percent for the month, while sales of Infiniti vehicles rose 21.9 over a year before. Â For all of 2010, NNA sales are up 14.2 percent.

GT-R Blog is reporting a few more updates, and more detailed information on the new 2012 Nissan GT-R to be  officially shown around October 2010.

The higher than expected number is an estimated 530-540 ps, or 532 hp, a big jump from the 2011's 485 hp.  There is no information on how this increase is achieved, but at a 2011 boost pressure of 10.2 psi, there was plenty of headroom to allow for more boost.







Nissan has worked on refining the suspension for 2012, with a change in the lower mounting position for the damper, the sway bar, castor angles, and the rear lower roll center. Moving the damper and damper mounting position closer to the wheel, changes the motion ratio of the suspension. It also changes the angle of the damper, which changes its effectiveness.

New tire options in the Bridgestone and Dunlop, along with 3kg lighter wheels, help to reduce weight, and improve performance. Aerodynamic changes have helped improved the coefficient of drag by 10%.

Will all of these changes add up to a big improvement on the 7:26.7 Nurburgring lap time? The never published SpecV time, was supposedly a 7:18, are these changes enough to put the 2012 DBA under 7:20?

GT-R Blog is also reporting that the SpecM, or Gentlemans edition R35 GT-R, will be labeled an Egoist.  This is a bit of an odd name, as it has negative connotations in English. It would almost seem like someone is pulling an April Fools joke a little early.  We will have to see how true some of the information actually is, come October.


Source: GT-R Blog

After a 10 year absence from Super Taikyu, Team Daishin will compete in the Okayama (formerly TI) round of Super Taikyu, September 5th, 2010. At the helm of the #81 ST1 class GT-R will be Ooyagi Nobuyuki, Takayuki Aoki, and Tetsuya Tanaka.
Team Daishin Super Taikyu R34 N1 Skyline GT-R

Source: GT-R World

Picture - Yatsuzuka

Nissan GT-R's took wins in the Competition Modern, and the Challenge Modern classes at the 2010 QUIT Targa West rally in Australia. Heres a couple of videos, and the press release from the organizers.

GT-R's seem to be the cars of choice for the winners.






Peter Major has won his first QUIT Targa West Competition Modern crown holding off Jim Richards to take the outright rally win in Perth today.

Major and his co-driver Kim Screaigh (Nissan GTR 35) took top spot on the timing sheets from Richards midway into Leg 1 and continued to stretch their advantage across the final two Leg’s of the tarmac rally, ultimately taking victory by 51 seconds.

Competing in the rally for the third time Major’s previous best result was seventh outright.

“We’re over the moon the car was fantastic it did everything we wanted it to do,” Major said.

“It was great racing against Jimmy (Jim Richards), you know he’s going to come hard and no matter what he does he’s going to be fast.

“You never know how hard he’s pushing so we just tried to stay on it and stay as quick as we could, luckily we were able to keep that gap we gained in the first leg,” he continued. 

Richards and Barry Oliver (Porsche GT2) crossed the final stop control in second outright with Peter Rullo and Simon Iseppi (Nissan GTR 35) holding off Ross Hamilton and Tony Robson (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8) to take third.

Defending Competition Modern Champion Steve Jones, who was hoping to become the first driver to win three QUIT Targa West crowns in a row, was forced to retire from the rally at the end of SS1 due to an engine failure.

QUIT Targa West 2010 concluded in spectacular fashion with the Killarnée City of Perth Super Stage run along the Swan River Foreshore.

It was the first time in the rally’s six-year history that a stage had been run in the heart of the city and more than 6000 spectators converged on the Esplanade to enjoy the action.

After holding a clear advantage over the Competition Classic class for the majority of the rally disaster struck Tolley Challis on the liaison to SS30 – the second last stage - when his Porsche 911 RS caught fire.

“I believe we’ve had a bit of a fuel issue, resulting in the air filter catching fire, hopefully we’ll be ok and we’ll do our best to get back out there,” Challis said at the time.

The crew were able to fix the car in within the required time frame, however, the organisers had already closed the stage which meant they were unable to start and received a derived time for SS30 before rejoining the rally for the final stage, SS31.

Despite the drama Challis and Flood held onto the top spot in the Competition Classic class by more than one minute, his best result at QUIT Targa West.

Mark and Mitchell O’Kane also recorded their best result at the rally since they made the switch to the Competition Classic class several years ago, second outright in their (Holden Torana A9X).

David and Vicki Moir (Datsun 240Z) have achieved second in the class for the past three years and while they once again missed out on taking the coveted winners trophy they rounded out the top three.

Mark and Andrew Conacher (Nissan GTR 35) returned to defend their 2009 Challenge Modern crown and proved once again to the crew to beat.

Robert Darrington and David Abetz upgraded to a (Nissan GTR 35) in the hope of reclaiming the trophy they held in 2007 but were unable to match the pace of the Conacher brothers out the front.  A further 7 minutes and 35 seconds behind were Keith and Russell Hawley (Holden VU Ute) who held onto third in the class.

The Challenge Classic class was taken out by Robert Buys/Sanja Aksamija (Porsche 911) who put in a dominate display across all three Leg’s of the rally to take the class by 2 minutes 48 seconds. They were followed by Paul and Mitchell Thompson (Porsche 911 RS) in second and Martin and Sharon Eyer (Triumph TR8) in third.

QUIT Targa West was held from the 26th - 29th August 2010 in the Shires of Kalamunda and Toodyay and the City of Swan and City of Perth.
Source: Quit Targa West

Some information on the R35 GT-R ST1 specifications for 2011/2012 have been released by GT-R World, and GT-R Blog.  The ST1(Super Tec) car from Nissan/Nismo costs approximately 23,000,000 yen.

Super Taikyu is an endurance race series from Japan. Super Taikyu race cars are production based cars with modifications to bring them up to race levels. The tires used are full slick tires mounted on 20" Volk Racing G2 wheels.





In its first race, the ST1 Nissan GT-R started in 3rd, and finished in 8th place in a rain soaked debut at Fuji Speedway July 26-27, 2010.    The next Super Taikyu race on the schedule is September 4th-5th. 

Source: Super Taikyu Website ,  GT-R World , GT-R Blog , You Tube

After a tough Saturday the Nissan GT-Rs started to move back up the order in the FIA GT1 World Championship at the Nurburgring today.

Peter Major is one step closer to taking his first QUIT Targa West Competition Modern title holding a comfortable advantage over the rest of the field at the completion of Leg 2.

The two Nissan GT-R teams, Sumo Power GT and Swiss Racing Team, were back on track today for the FIA GT1 World Championship qualifying race at the Nurburgring in Germany.

Darren Turner and Tomas Enge extended their dominance in the sixth round of the championship by taking victory in an eventful Championship Race at Nurburgring.

Aston Martin driver Darren Turner claimed pole position for this afternoon's qualifying race at the Nurburgring FIA GT1 World Championship event