Showing posts with label CL7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CL7. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Team 5Zigen lineup

I came across some quality photos of the stylishly purpose-built cars that make up Team 5Zigen on their blog, and thought I'd share:

5Zigen FD2:

5Zigen DC5:

5Zigen CL7:

5Zigen/ProRacer GD1:

Friday, April 3, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

No. 72, Y. Taniguchi?

Yukinori Taniguchi recently entered the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) during the last stages of the 2008 season, driving at Monza, Italy and Okayama, Japan. Taniguchi also competed in the Honda Exciting Cup One-Make Race 2008, Inner-Civic Series. He finished third in early November, during the final race, No. 7 at Fuji and seventh in overall series standings.

Check out the Hondas he has been piloting; the Repsol/AMS (JAS/N-Technology) CL7 and the Ings+1/Sergeant FD2:

Just a little bit of history behind Taniguchi; He founded the video game developer Yuke's in Osaka, in 1993 and supported Nobushige Kumakubo's Team Orange (Team Yuke's) in the D1 Grand Prix which lead to Yuke's development of the D1GP game series. As a driver, in 2005, he competed in Super Taikyu piloting a Nissan 350z alongside Tarzan Yamada and the pair became series' champions. Then, in 2007, he competed in the Japan Le Mans Challenge, won a race and finished runner-up in the season.

That's the real dream right there. At age 40, a successful businessman with a side job as a racing driver, currently for two separate Honda teams and a history in motorsports.

Photos courtesy of Taniguchi's blog: http://ameblo.jp/yuke72/

-Nick

Monday, December 15, 2008

Speaking of J's Racing...

I've been searching through a Japan-based automotive blogging site recently, where users can share photos of their cars, from recent events, share information on new parts, regular maintenance, etc. It's kinda like a myspace-cardomain-facebook-livejournal all mixed into one, but specifically geared towards properly tuning cars. It's pretty neat.

Anywho, I discovered these photos taken at J's Racing a few days ago (12/13-08), from which it appears a bunch of privateer Fits and some of the shop's recent demo cars were on display.

Check:
They even had one of their models on hand, posing for a few photos near the
cars. Not too bad:

Looks like a pretty nice day to be over at J's Racing, huh?
-Nick

Bonus - J's Racing K24 Fit at Tsukuba: