::my racing weblog:: from Japan to the World.

If I choose the category I will compete next year from touring car race, there are 4 major categories in Japan.
HONDA Civic RACE, NISSAN Micra CUP, TOYOTA Yaris CUP,and VW GTI CUP.
Each races have a different style and background.

The Civic race is a newest category started in this year.
Most of races are supporting the SUPER-GT series and Formula NIPPON.
Machine is the original specification made by HONDA-MUGEN.
But it almost same to the S2000 machine.
We can get the good experience from it to be a Europe touring car driver.

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The Micra cup is of course the one make series organized by NISSAN-NISMO.
The base machine is normal Micra SR12 edition and remake it to the cupcar.
It has almost same performance to RENAULT CLIO CUP but it isn`t so popular like Clio cup.
But the budget per year is more inexpensive.
Machine style is very cute but it’s very quick and always keep the race competition high.

The Toyota Yaris cup has a largest competitor in Japanese touring car race.
It always gathers over 40 cars each race. So it is very hard work only to through the qualify.
Machine is kept equal condition perfectly.
We can easily buy it from TOYOTA dealer shop "Net`z" and most interesting point of this machine is we can use it on public road.
So we can drive it to the circuit then ride it in the circuit and can use it to come back to the home.
There is no need to use the trailer to transport the race car.
These special rules make this series very cost effective.

Of course, there is a lot of other minor touring car series called "clubman race".
Old Civic Cup car or MAZDA Roadster are usually used.
If I choose the category I compete in the next year from touring car race, I choose it from these 4 categories.