Tsukuba Circuit

Tsukuba Circuit is the bench mark of Japan. Buy GT4 for the Playstation2 and check it out. This is where any lap time compared among the Japanese tuning community will immediately give you an idea of a cars true performance and gain respect. For an Fd with around 400hp and well tuned suspension and S-tyres you would be looking at around the 59 second range if you install a professional driver thats lapped Tsukuba about 1000000 times. For the rest of who pull up and hack out a few laps. We may use these as our ultimate goals but will never really get close.

Here is a sample reference of real FD reference times at Tsukuba. Many of these have been set with low fuel limits and qualifying tyres.

The best of the all out race cars is the Pan Speed 2006 Time Attack Fd 56"800 closely followed by the Re-Amemiya 2002 Time Attack Fd at 56"863. The R-Magic Pinky 4 Fd hit 57" but is aiming for the 55 second range. Feast regularly attend and got their blue GT Fd into the 58"s
For the road cars, the Fujita single turbo Fd sits near the top with a recent 59"352. Many of RE-Amemiya cars also sit in this range from 59" - 1'01". The T78 equipped Greddy G9 hit 1'01" flat in 2002. The Revolution boost-up Fd recently logged a 1'01"375 so its all pretty close and whether you have 450hp or 350hp there are many factors affecting times.

Off the Shelf from mazda 2002 Mazdaspeed BSpec FD 1'07" without S-Tyres. Still pretty impressive. Slight boost up, shocks and and S-tyres should yeild around 1'04" and add a full GT wing and body kit should get you in the 1'03 region. Add some more serious boost brings you 1'01' and from there it gets seriously competitve and the "street tune" is somehow forgotten.

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