Time Attack - Tuner Teams
I dont blame you at all - I think it is a great move and will raise the profile of your Company/Team massively.
Have you noticed that it is easier to get sponsorship as a result of this? I note on 22b you said you have a tyre deal up with Toyo.
Will definitely be at Donny to cheer you on whether running myself or not even if I do love the Type 25 by that other company whose name escapes me
I bet you are itching to run the same car at each track once with Matt driving and once with yourself just to see what the difference is
Will be interesting either way I guess, if he is quicker then I supsect you will be looking back through 2006 results and wondering what could have been....
Have you noticed that it is easier to get sponsorship as a result of this? I note on 22b you said you have a tyre deal up with Toyo.
Will definitely be at Donny to cheer you on whether running myself or not even if I do love the Type 25 by that other company whose name escapes me
I bet you are itching to run the same car at each track once with Matt driving and once with yourself just to see what the difference is
Will be interesting either way I guess, if he is quicker then I supsect you will be looking back through 2006 results and wondering what could have been....I can think of nothing better than having 'pro' drivers in the Time Attack cars, putting a Stig in the car is the final part of the engineer's formula.
Should my car actually get finished in time for this season I was planning to find a young hungry driver to push the pedals, whats going to be better for the crowd to see a young talented driver trying to move up in his or her career, or a bald engineer on the wrong side of 35 relying on a brain thats had 20years of alcohol abuse?
The whole Time Attack event comes from the Tskuba(sp?) Super Lap where the top Japanese tuners turn up with their best car and best driver to set the best lap, anything less than this is second best, and theres no reason for the UK to be second best in motorsport to ANYONE :-D
Should my car actually get finished in time for this season I was planning to find a young hungry driver to push the pedals, whats going to be better for the crowd to see a young talented driver trying to move up in his or her career, or a bald engineer on the wrong side of 35 relying on a brain thats had 20years of alcohol abuse?
The whole Time Attack event comes from the Tskuba(sp?) Super Lap where the top Japanese tuners turn up with their best car and best driver to set the best lap, anything less than this is second best, and theres no reason for the UK to be second best in motorsport to ANYONE :-D
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Anyone know who Tarzan is?
Its great news Paul that you guys are upping the game, it will make for fantastic spectator stuff and also gives the other drivers an added incentive.
Last year knowing that Phil was a pro driver was great, if you beat the times posted by these pros who knows where its gonna lead?
All the best paul and everyone interested in having a dig!
Rob
Its great news Paul that you guys are upping the game, it will make for fantastic spectator stuff and also gives the other drivers an added incentive.
Last year knowing that Phil was a pro driver was great, if you beat the times posted by these pros who knows where its gonna lead?
All the best paul and everyone interested in having a dig!
Rob
Time Attack is wheres its at!
Tarzan?? Yamada??TimeAttackRob wrote:Anyone know who Tarzan is?
Its great news Paul that you guys are upping the game, it will make for fantastic spectator stuff and also gives the other drivers an added incentive.
Last year knowing that Phil was a pro driver was great, if you beat the times posted by these pros who knows where its gonna lead?
All the best paul and everyone interested in having a dig!
Rob
Oh, I do hope so http://www.auto-genie.co.uk
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Tarzan, oh yes, now that would be one to watch.
I think that this has been a topic of interesting conflicts in opinion. As with most forms of motorsport, the spectators generally follow a particular driver or team as the champioship/race generally has specication regulations of some description. This is where Time Attack is different, the only limits to an entry vehicle are how the laws of physics apply to each build i.e power in relation to chassis in relation to budget in relation to driver.
By introducing professional drivers into the tuner cars, this will allow the cars to be pushed harder and closer to their limits. Rumour has that several more professional drivers have been signed and the only way that it could be said that Matt will win lock stock is if it were quoted that he were the best driver around, of which I don't think ( whilst not implying that he is the worst ). As for more experience, Schuey has more than Alonso but he was still beaten two years on the trott, if you get where im coming from
I think that this will be a superb year for Time Attack and will aid the profile of the event. Hopefully we will see the car being developed further and pushed harder, roll on 2007 :-D
I think that this has been a topic of interesting conflicts in opinion. As with most forms of motorsport, the spectators generally follow a particular driver or team as the champioship/race generally has specication regulations of some description. This is where Time Attack is different, the only limits to an entry vehicle are how the laws of physics apply to each build i.e power in relation to chassis in relation to budget in relation to driver.
By introducing professional drivers into the tuner cars, this will allow the cars to be pushed harder and closer to their limits. Rumour has that several more professional drivers have been signed and the only way that it could be said that Matt will win lock stock is if it were quoted that he were the best driver around, of which I don't think ( whilst not implying that he is the worst ). As for more experience, Schuey has more than Alonso but he was still beaten two years on the trott, if you get where im coming from
I think that this will be a superb year for Time Attack and will aid the profile of the event. Hopefully we will see the car being developed further and pushed harder, roll on 2007 :-D
If indeed Eiji "Tarzan" Yamada is entering the 2007 TimeAttack it can only be a good thing.
Professional drivers means a professional appearance for the TA series. That means better prospects for TA attracting sponsors to underwrite the cost of running the series, and better prospects for TA competitors attracting sponsorship. By making it a higher profile event all round it begins to become a worthwhile comercial venture. I dare say (but I am merely speculating) that Sumo and others have put in significant amounts of their own money to get this running, and are currently at a loss, without further proper backing for all elements of the TA, it will fade away for another few years and it will be even harder to get it running should a second attempt be made.
If we successfully run Matt and we win against no real competition that would nice but hollow, coming second to a very well known driver may actually be better though. Okay so we have upped the game a little (although in 2005 WRC-Tech put Phill Bennet in their TunerGP Subaru entry) but if we didn't follow what others had started, someone else would.
We considered not telling anyone until just a few weeks before, but it would have not been of any great benefit for us or Matt. Meanwhile those teams considering or signing pro and semi-pro drivers would have done so anyway.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Paul
Professional drivers means a professional appearance for the TA series. That means better prospects for TA attracting sponsors to underwrite the cost of running the series, and better prospects for TA competitors attracting sponsorship. By making it a higher profile event all round it begins to become a worthwhile comercial venture. I dare say (but I am merely speculating) that Sumo and others have put in significant amounts of their own money to get this running, and are currently at a loss, without further proper backing for all elements of the TA, it will fade away for another few years and it will be even harder to get it running should a second attempt be made.
If we successfully run Matt and we win against no real competition that would nice but hollow, coming second to a very well known driver may actually be better though. Okay so we have upped the game a little (although in 2005 WRC-Tech put Phill Bennet in their TunerGP Subaru entry) but if we didn't follow what others had started, someone else would.
We considered not telling anyone until just a few weeks before, but it would have not been of any great benefit for us or Matt. Meanwhile those teams considering or signing pro and semi-pro drivers would have done so anyway.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Paul