HACHIROKU DAY AT NIKKO CIRCUIT: Part II
24-08-2009 7:23 pm
Tec Arts crew. Doing what should be done.
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Tag Archive: AE86
HACHIROKU DAY AT NIKKO CIRCUIT: Part I
17-08-2009 12:30 am
I was going to editorialise a bit here, but since it was going to be unrelated to AE86s, and because my column for the UK’s Banzai Magazine is due in a couple of days and I need to save up my opinion juice, I’ll save it for another post.
Until then, enjoy the first half of Noriyaro’s coverage of the 6th of August AE86 meeting at Nikko Circuit.
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GRIP GRIP GRIP GRIP: Crystal Body Yokohama’s AE86 Trueno
13-08-2009 4:00 pm
Records are made to be broken.
Behold, the breaker.
25 CommentsACTION SHOTS: Asayan’s AE86 at MSC
03-08-2009 12:17 pm
Remember I said that I’d bring you some action shots of Asayan’s AE86? Does Noriyaro deliver or what?
The ending of the photo sequence is not quite what Asayan might have liked, however.
16 CommentsLIKE A BOSS (COFFEE): Asayan’s AE86
27-07-2009 11:07 pm
This car really deserves something better than a few quick shots indoors under bad lighting, but it’s worth a look, all the same.
23 CommentsTRUENO ECO: Recycling car parts the slow way
16-07-2009 11:13 am
Because you just know there’s someone out there who would pay money for this.
6 CommentsHACHIROKU DAMASHII: The Soul of Hachiroku
09-07-2009 5:56 pm
The characters read “ハチロク魂” or “hachiroku damashii”, which means “the soul of hachiroku”.
For anyone who is also a fan of Japanese videogames, it’s the same “damashii” as in the title of the game “Katamari Damacy”.
7 CommentsDEATH-PROOF: Goto-san’s AE86
19-06-2009 11:59 am
I think that the less is said about this car, the better.
25 CommentsPERKS OF THE JOB: Papa-chan’s custom gauge panel
15-05-2009 5:35 pmRemember Tomonori Akai’s purple AE86 hatch? After cracking the crankshaft of his 10,000rpm engine clean in half, he bought this turbo 86 we saw at Tsukuba circuit, transplanted the engine and replaced the transmission with a Toyota W55, replaced the diff with a 7.5-inch item bought from C&Y Sports.
So what happens when you run an industrial laser cutter all day? You make neat custom panels to fit your Defi gauges and other bits and pieces.
WEEKEND EDITION: D1 Grand Prix Autopolis Qualifying Results
25-04-2009 11:46 pm
(photo: Copyright 2009 D1 CORPORATION All Rights Reserved)
Considering that I’m going to driving a lot at Ebisu Circuit next week at the Spring Drift Matsuri, I figured I’ve give travelling all the way down to Fukuoka to watch D1 a miss for this round.
That doesn’t mean I can’t still throw up some results! There are a lot of unknown faces ranking particularly well this round,
This is a list of all the unseeded drivers who have qualified to enter tomorrow’s second round of qualifying. Number one was SunRise’s Tetsuya Hibino in Toshiking’s old NOS-boosted naturally-aspirated AE86. It seems he’s added some bolt-on fenders for this round too, and it doesn’t look half bad!
1 25 Hibino Tetsuya AE86 DL 98.75
2 14 Kawabata Masato RPS13 TY 98.62
3 19 Takahashi Kuniaki JZX100 GY 97.50
4 28 Fujinaka Manabu FD3S YH 96.50
5 17 Minowa Shinji JZX90 DL 96.12
6 22 Yamashita Koichi JZX100 YH 95.62
7 23 Tanaka Kazuhiro GDB YH 95.00
8 21 Sakuma Tatsuya S15 TY 94.75
9 13 Utsumi Akira PS13 YH 94.25
10 20 Okamura Kazuyoshi S15 YH 94.25
11 31 Hayashi Wataru S15 DL 92.25
12 26 Nakamura Naoki S15 FD 90.37
13 35 Yamaguchi Osamu S14 YH 90.00
14 40 Ota Isao FD3S TY/FD 89.87
15 12 Suenaga Naoto CT9A YH 89.37
16 15 Tokita Masayoshi GRS180 GY 89.25
17 38 Kitashiba Michiyuki JZZ 30 YH 85.75
18 33 Hirano Tomokazu S15 YH 84. 50
19 27 Matsukawa Kazuya UZZ40 YH 82.75
20 18 Imamura (Drift Samurai) Takahiro FC3S TY 74.25
DL = Dunlop, GY = Goodyear, YH = Yokohama, TY = Toyo, FD = Federal
I’m almost sure those names are right, as some of the kanji were pretty hard to work out. Just out of interest, Takahiro Ueno’s new BMW didn’t qualify.
Click here for these results on the D1GP official site.
EDIT: Looks like the wet conditions gave a few of the drivers a bit of trouble, like Matsukawa here.
