Was a wash! Literally. Besides a light drizzle in the late afternoon, the heavily touted HKS Hipermax CT230R, piloted by pro driver Nobuteru Taniguchi, was to have given everyone a good show by challenging all comers to beat its best time around the track. Instead it set a FTD of 2'0x"xxx in the early morning session, but promptly experienced "mechanical difficulties" within 2 laps, and had to be pushed back into the pits! Didn't even get to see it perform since we got there only at about 1.30 pm...
Making things worse were that the other heavy-hitters from various workshops were also no-shows, meaning that it was just like any other trackday. i.e., about as interesting for observers as watching paint dry.
Overall it was a disappointing trip... on the bright side we managed to average about 9.5 km/l on the car despite driving with a fairly heavy right foot.
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