Seeing 155 competing cars fill the Tsukuba paddock and access roads a couple of weekends back was crazy. While idlers may come close to filling up Ibaraki circuit, I’ve never seen quite so many cars lined up to race at one event as I did at Attack. While it was Speedhunting heaven, it actually made it quite difficult […]
Four Heavy Hitters From Attack Tsukuba
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve shown you a few different sides of Attack Tsukuba 2023. We started with some main coverage, where I talked about this 10th anniversary event being the biggest ever, followed up with some curious time-attacking Suzuki Jimnys (yes, really), a couple of Honda Today kei cars, […]
Firepower: Japan’s Fastest Time Attack Car
At Attack Tsukuba 2023, all eyes were on Toshiki ‘Fire’ Ando when he took to the track in his Escort Racing-built Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. There was, of course, a very good reason for this. On January 27, at a Zummy-organized event, Ando-san blasted his Evo to a new Tsukuba tuning car lap record: 49.897. While he wasn’t able […]