Now that was some racing! Was able to watch the second round of the Autobacs Super GT series held this time at Suzuka Circuit on Monday (while the third round was going on in Japan) and with the sun out and the track in great shape for racing we finally got some good racing action going on. However, what we didn't get is another race with the StudieGLAD Racing BMW Z4. Moving along though lets get back to the cars that did show up to race.

The GT500 race was finally a well fought race from start to finish. Well Ok there was some parts in the middle that was really boring but the beginning was a hard fought battle between the Motul GTR and a pair of hungry Lexus SC430s that were looking to take the lead away from the GTRs and while there was a bit of traffic helping the lead GTR get away from the SC430s for a while anyways. Even after getting passed by the Impul GTR the Zent Lexus SC430 was able to fight back from 7th place all the way up to 1st place with a huge battle between 1-3 during that last 10 laps or so of the race. First it started with Petronas and Zent jumping down MOtul's back side almost sending Zent off course. Petronas was able to pass the Motul GTR and Zent was able to follow behind quickly leaving Motul in third wondering what happened. Then Zent went after Petronas with aggressive driving side by side getting a little bump action going but not giving up any space until Petronas backed off a bit and Zent was able to surge ahead and take 1st place. All within the last five laps left to go. Sadly Petronas nor Motul were able to fight back due to a full course yellow which would end the racing for the day.

On the GT300 side there was even more battles going on. Not so much for 1st place mind you as that was won by the Hankook Porsche 911 that started on Pole and pretty much staid there the entire race with out much of a threat from anyone else. The major player during the GT300 was the Privee Apple Shiden car that didn't even make it to the starting line but was able to fight back to an astounding finish in that it was able to finish in 7th. Of course the Lamborghinis are still having issues and yet again there was another Lamborghini on the side of the track after breaking down but it looked like the cars having the biggest issue this race were the two Lexus IS350s since both spent some time spinning off course and one could say that the Reckless IS350 was just a bit too reckless during this race. Still with the wreck in the last few laps the racing was called short due to the full course yellow.

To me it's interesting that there is so few multicar wrecks during the Super GT races considering how much traffic there is and how many twists and turns there are to navigate around. However that wasn't the case during the last few laps of this race as a handful of cars got into a banger of a mess. Since they didn't show a replay of the accident I can only speculate as to what happened during the wreck that involved the Autobacs Arta NSX, the Bomex 320R, the HASEMI GTR and I believe the Raybrig NSX the wreck was so bad that it send the driver of the Masemi GTR off in an ambulance. Since this was a pretty serious wreck it caused a full course caution and brought out the pace car. The race ended up being called under the full course yellow so the last couple of laps were rather boring and uneventful. You can find the official results of the race here.

With the second race in the bag for me I get to look forward to the release of the third race and hopefully I'll get to it before the next scheduled race in June. Once again I'm using an image taken by this guy and if you take a look at his sets you'll find a whole host of new images as well.

Another weekend err...Sunday of racing and picture/video taking. This time it was held out at the Idaho Center in Nampa. A nice sunny warm Sunday much better than the last event and it showed with I believe a much larger turn out of drivers. Since it was at the Idaho Center I was able to just hang out on the grass without the need of a spotter to film and take pictures. I also brought the umbrella setup along and thank goodness I did. I definitely think it did a lot to keep me out of the sun and a good couple of degrees cooler than just being out under the sun. It may look a little goofy but it rocks like nothing else.

What also rocks is the new camera car mount. I was a little worried to be honest as after attaching it to a car and letting it sit there for a while it seemed to lose just a bit of suction not a lot but enough to make me worry just a bit but all was good and it hung on for three outings on various cars. Oh course one of the videos got messed up some how so only got three on car videos. I did try hard to get at least one video of most of the cars that were out there some I just didn't care for but I'm trying to get every one's car more than just a lot of videos of a handful of cars.

I was also taking still pictures and trying to do the whole motion capture thing so the cars look like they are in motion and all that jazz. Still working on fine tuning that aspect of my photography. I also wasn't in the best place for pictures compared to videos. And speaking of places to be for being in a relatively safe place that black Dodge Neon with a major front end plow problem came damn close on one run.

It was a lot of fun as usual. I managed to hang around all day this time thanks to the umbrella and having the day off. Found out that a lot of people are watching the videos and really enjoy them, which is always a nice thing to hear. I still need to figure out a way to cut down on the wind noise from the on car videos and I think I'll be heading to a music store to look at mic covers. You can the pictures here and the videos are all here.

I missed a good number of spins but I also got a few good ones as well. Like this one from a Corvette engined Datsun 240Z. There was another great one from a Mercedes Benz as well where the driver was able to save it and keep going.

First car show of the year is always the Boise Roadster Show which was held on the Second weekend of March and while I have gone to it before I've passed going for several years due to the high volume of the same old same old year after year. This year my roommate's father entered his 65 Mustang and we got 4 day passes so decided to go this year since well I was bored and I heard there was a couple Porsche displays and a GTR. Then there was also the bikini contest. Figured what better way to break the winter doldrums and lack of any video postings than to film the bikini contest and take the 50mm lens out for a test drive.

We went on Friday evening pretty much to look about take some pictures and of course to film the bikini contest. You can read about that on the previous two posts. I found out that the 50mm lens doesn't work so well for car shows but the roommate did get some good shots of the girls with it while I was filming. So that means I had to go back on Saturday to shot the cars which wasn't too bad at all really.

I went back myself on Saturday morning and apparently so did everyone else. I got there soon after it was open for the day and the place was already packed. Of course that just makes it very hard to shot the cars with people standing in front of them talking and doing stupid people things. So yeah the cars. Actually it looked to me that there was a bit less turn out than the previous years that I've been to it. A sign of the times perhaps. I did check out the Silver GTR and it's HUGE and awesome in person. There was also a new Hyundai Genesis Coupe as well as a Nissan 370Z and while I've already seen the 370Z the Genesis coupe looks pretty nice in person as well.

As I'm a huge Porsche fan I was really looking forward to the Porsche display until I saw it and then the dealership display. Crappy displays both of them. The dealership which has a Porsche Design Cayman and a white 911 Turbo Cab at their dealership only brought a plain jane Boxster and a 911 C2 Cab. What in the piss, it's a car show bring the cool shit out for people to look at not the boring everyday things. They did have a Cayanne GTS but they've had that thing forever.

But it wasn't nearly as crappy as the Silver Sage Porsche club display. Remember them they do a show in October yeah well this display sucked and I took a picture of it to show how not to do a display. They had five cars crammed into a tiny space and had it roped off with stupid checkered triangles and the larger safety cones making it imposable to take any type of good picture since the rope was almost on top of cars. Really crappy display and the worst at the show by far. They didn't even mention anything about their own show in October what a way to pass up an opportunity to advertise. Not the worst looking cars though, no that goes to one of those god awful hideous 53 commemorative edition Corvettes sitting next to an overpriced new ZR-1 Corvette.

As for all the other stuff...well it wasn't half bad if you're into the trailer queened roadster and muscle car scene. I'm not so much but it was a good opportunity to take some more car show pictures and do something other than surf the Internet at home on a Saturday morning. I did like seeing the GTR finally and the bikini contest was also fun to watch. I'm definitely looking forward to the other car shows this year though. In the mean time you can find all the other pictures from the Roadster Show here.

Ouch! Not only does work suck the mondo huge one at the moment with even MORE work to do (to the point where honestly I get to work and I really feel like turning back around and just going home) but this week I had a lovely tooth infection thanks to biting down on something the other day that really didn't like my tooth. So yeah in pain and pissed off does not a good week make. Doesn't help that my roommate couldn't get either one of the RX-8s going this week one due to a dead battery (and now thanks to the anti-theft system we can't get it started at the moment either with a new battery) and the other one had a series flooding problem which required it to be towed to the shop for some much needed TLC. The green one is fixed but since the black one was still down we didn't go out to Firebird for pictures and because of the tooth infection I wasn't in any mood to go anyways. Also didn't go to the anime group either because all I wanted to do is sleep and nurse my poor tooth.

Yes I know balling like a baby isn't going to solve any thing and neither is whining about how pissy work is which is why I was looking for a job at work the other day instead of folding laundry (actually I finished the laundry anyways but still) so that's one of my goals for the week is to find or at least apply to some jobs and hopefully get out of this nightmare of a job. The other goal is to take pictures of all the cool stuff that I got with my tax refund since FINALLY everything arrived this week.

I guess the one bright point to the week (other than receiving the last package) is finally getting to see one of the new Nissan 370Zs in person and I have to admit that other than one horrible angle the car actually looks really awesome in person until you stand next to either the driver's/passenger's door and look down at the headlamps and seem them sticking up with a nice little 2 inch bump. Doesn't kill the car completely but is a definite ugh part of the car. And hey I fit in it better than the RX8 which kind of surprised me. Oh yeah and at least I didn't sit on the key when I got in car...kekeke.

Also enjoy more Moko.cc girls for this week. Due to the stupid work & Laundry issues blogging may change a little bit for the next little while.

Well holy freaking crap. Remember that dashboard lil' itty bitty race queen figure that I found out at one of the autocross events way back in the beginning of the summer and how I was looking for her but never found her? Anyways I was cruising eBay looking for something cool and decided to do a search for race queen stuff and low and behold what should be one of the many many links but that lil' race queen. Then I figured out why I couldn't find her earlier. I was searching for figures but she's actually a freaking air freshener. Yeah that's what I thought as well. Turns out she's an INGS (Nissan race parts) Race Queen Air Freshener made for GALSParadise (the same people who put out the Race Queen guides and other Japanese girly mags) and can be found at just about any Import tunershop webpage for an unsightly price of $15 (or more) + shipping. I did find that if you bought INGS products from one place that they would include the lil' race queen for free but then you are spending some serious dough for car parts to get her.

So now that I've found her, and have been looking around to find the best deal, am I going to order one to have a lil' race queen sitting on my dash to freshen up my car? Probably not, I mean it's $20 for a freaking air freshener and she's not nearly as cute now that I've seen an up close image of her. There are a lot more interesting and much better quality race queen figures out there to be had but they are more than 3x the money as well. It would be funny to get her and hog tie her to the Tein umbrella so that I can say that I have a RQ holding my umbrella but then I think I'd be the only one to find that funny. Maybe I'll ask Santa for one, it is getting close to Christmas after all (they already have Christmas stuff up already at Walmart).

First time using the new camcorder this morning to film an autocross event and boy was I impressed with the quality of the video that I managed to get with the new camcorder and how much easier it was to film with it compared to the old Canon G6. Now who wants to by an old Canon G6 (since I no longer have any use for it at all)

This morning's autocross event was held out at the Expo Center just down the road from my house so I figured I'd give it a shot even with the possibility of more rain showers but for the most part it was nice outside a bit overcast and with only a little bit of sprinkle that only lasted a couple minutes. Since I was late getting there and they had already started I was relegated to film from behind the fences so I picked the best place that I could and started filming. Being as it was a rainy type day there were not that many cars out there which was a good thing since I was only packing a 2gig flash card that only lasted 40 minutes so I had to pick and choose carefully what I filmed. So yeah you want to see just how better these new videos are compared to the old ones...

New video of 350Z here 350Z
Old video of 350Z here 350Z
Both videos are of the same car at the same place but different days and different recording devices. What do you think? I think I made the right decision on this and am happy with the new results. I didn't however take any still pictures so I used an old picture from a previous autox event. Of course all the new videos will be uploaded shortly to the same good ol' site.

While I was writing the first blog about Shakotan Matsuri I realized that it would be way to long if I went on about the cars as I had a lot more to say so I decided to do two blog entries for Shakotan Matsuri with one focusing on the the cars attending the show. While I wish I could tell you all the winners to be honest not only can I not remember them all they gave out names mostly and I don't know who drives what but for a handful of people so you'll have to forgive me on that part. Again here is the link to all the pictures Flickr for your convenience. The easiest way to do this would be to separate the cars into their respective manufactures including subgroups.

I just found a place that posted the official results of the shows winners so you can pretty much disregard my mubblings about who won as I think I got some wrong but I'm to lazy to fix it right now. Tunerzine

Honda/Acura: There was a huge turn out for Hondas and Acuras from run of the mill Accords to a nice black NSX. There were also some RHD Hondas as well. I saw a CRX RHD and a couple Civics that were RHD. I don't know who the runner up was but the winner for Hondas was a local autox'er that I've met before, at the Treasure Valley Mustang and Ford car show where he also took first place, Jonathan with his nicely sorted out Honda S2000. The other Honda S2000 was entered into the Drift category or else it might have been a tougher time judging the Hondas. The NSX left before judging started otherwise it might have won something also. Although I did get a good laugh at the NSX's driver's big toes which were painted with skull and cross bones.

Mazda: The rotary heads were in good form with a nice sampling of Mazda power from one Miata a handful of various generation RX-7 and my roommate's Turbocharged RX-8. Bandon was able to make it there with a borrowed alternator to show off his three rotary RX-7 followed by much joking about the need for milk. However, the car that won the Mazda trophy was a first generation RX-7 with an engine swap. Leo was runner up (with a nice piston trophy too) with his nicely done red RX-7. Maybe next year Scott.

Nissan/Infinity: Probably the second largest group of cars with everything from a very nice looking original Datsun 240Z to the two RHD Skylines (yet again both are for sale) yet for the most part it was various models of the 240sx that were in the majority. Followed by a handful of 350Zs and Infinity G35s followed by the RHD 300ZX which to be honest I really don't like and yet got some award or another. Ok if he would strip the paint and decals and redo it so that it looked cleaner it wouldn't be so bad. The winner for Nissan was the yellow 350Z and the runner up was the Red with carbon fiber hood (pictured) 350Z. I like that one because of the lil' RQ figurine on his dashboard, it's totally JDM. After taking a look for the first time at those Skylines I still have to say they are pretty meh for the prices they demand but they are interesting to look at. They did gather large groups of onlookers though.

Mitsubishi: Handful of EVO's and an Eclipse (well two if you really count the Eagle Talon) were there. Other than the Dealer EVO X MR there was one other EVO X followed by a very nice looking with lots of kit and shiny go fast parts EVO Pedobear...LOL yes another pedobear EVO. I did finally get a picture of the "V-tec this" Eclipse from the North West Motorfest car show. I don't know who won in this category though.

Subaru: Another group that had only a handful of cars entered but the ones that were there looked really nice but I know hardly anything about the cars other than changing their spark plugs are a HUGE pain in the ass. Later that night I did spy a pretty rare, I think, Forester STI sitting outside the show area. They should have entered the show. Again I don't have a clue who won this group either.

Toyota/Lexus/Scion: I find it rather odd that the two VIP style Lexus sedans didn't even enter the VIP category. There was a couple other Lexus cars there but I didn't get any pictures of them or even looked at them all that closely. There was only a handful of Toyotas again with two Supras an older MR2 and an much older Corolla which showed up much later and I didn't photograph. While the "Fast & Furious" Supra won, I honestly have to say I found a much better looking Supra sitting outside the Show area. I would have hoped that if they had entered they would have won instead. As for the Scions well I guess one of them was featured in the latest Scion commercial so that's cool, just not my cup of tea.

I believe that wraps up my small review of the cars that were at Shakotan Matsuri or atleast it's what I remember about it anyways. Yet again I just want to say that I had a good time meeting new people and seeing some different cars that I haven't seen before and here's to a much bigger and better show next year.

This last Saturday was the first ever Shakotan Matsuri held downtown Boise ID. The Shakotan Matsuri (Japanese Lowered Car Festival) is the first car show held here that is only for Japanese manufactured cars. For a first time event there was a large and very nice turn out of cars. There wasn't much there that I didn't like. I for one was happy to see a large and professionally done car show here that wasn't about muscle cars and old school roadsters for a change and I'm definitely looking forward to next years event. As with all things everyone has their own opinion of how things went and since I'm not a paid journalist (I'll gladly accept bribes though) you get my opinion instead of some white washed op-ed piece. So of course I'll bash some things and praise others. So let the bashing and praising begin.

There is actually very little that I didn't like about the show but I do have some creative criticism of how some things went down. First of all the music was a bit to loud I don't like having to scream at my friends in order to talk to them when they are standing three feet away from me. I also think the BBoy Battle thing went on way to long but that might have more to do with my opinion (definitely not my cup of tea) of it more than anything else. But here is something they really should have had for the battle...a freaking stage. More than three people deep and you couldn't even see what was going on. Just an idea for next time guys. Another thing that got me was the MC and his switching back and forth from the "oh this is a family event and I can't say that" to swearing like a it wasn't a family event. As this was a family friendly event even later at night he should have kept it g rated for everyone in attendance. I don't care if you swear but I'm sure the families with the kids probably did. That brings me to my last little quibble they needed more people judging or needed to start judging earlier and maybe a few more categories and awards. I would have liked to see an award based on participant votes.

With all my bashing out of the way all I have left is praise and I have a lot to hand out. I have to say for a first time event this was pretty well sorted out. From what I could see there were only minor hiccups so you have to give the organizers a big pat on the back for putting on a good show. The audience in attendance was all well behaved and for such a diverse group of people that really does deserve some praise even if we all take it for granted here I've heard some horror stories at other shows like this. Of course I need to show some major praise to all the folks who brought out their cars for people to look over and discuss. Without you there just wouldn't be a show.

And about those cars. This is what you really came to read anyways right. There was a large turn out of interesting cars. There was a good number of right hand drive cars including two Skylines (both for sale by the way, actually there were a lot of cars there for sale) a couple different Hondas and a Toyota Supra (who's owner probably watched The Fast and Furious a few to many times in my own opinion) this was a nice change of pace for me as I've only seen one RHD car that wasn't a mail carrier car before. There were two VIP style cars (both Lexus) but odd to me anyways neither of them entered the VIP class. Of course there were gobs of Hondas an assortment of Nissans, Mazdas and Toyotas with a small smattering of Subarus and Mistsubishi cars. All of which were looking nice, there wasn't much in the way of RICER Boy stuff and you could tell that people put in a lot of effort to show off their cars and were having a good time hanging out with fellow car crazy people. That's it for me but you can see all my pictures on Flickr and make you own judgement. Here's to next year being bigger and better.

Ford Mustangs lots and lots of Ford Mustang and a good helping of various other old school American muscle even a pinch of Import madness gathered on the grass at a Nampa Id park on June 21, 2008. I joined my roommate as he took his finally repaired and washed Mazda RX-8 out to it's first auto show. I grabbed my camera but wasn't in the mood to take pro pics so just didn't take all the gear this was going to be a fun snap happy weekend day of fun in the sun looking at cars and hopefully hot chicks. Right auto shows have hot chicks right...right? Well this one I can say definitely failed on the hot chick ratio but more than made up for it with some awesome cars to oogle at.

In total there were some 222 registered cars at this years show, the highest turn out in the 25 years of the show. Surprising actually as they thought there was going to be for sure a smaller turnout due to the economy and the cost of gas. In all there were seven states and two Canadian provinces in attendance a nice turnout. While the majority of the vehicles there were Ford Mustangs the show was open to any thing and there were cars there that ranged from old Model Ts and Chevrolet Corvettes to one of the first Smart FourTwos in Idaho (it's been in the show for three years running). There were five cars total in the Import category including my roommate's RX-8 also there was another fellow autocrosser Jonathan and his 2002 Honda S2000. later in the day after the voting had been closed A Honda Civic Si belonging to local automotive photographer Chris Wold showed up for short time. Again showing up late was a JDM Nissan 300zx. Sadly it was rather riced out with the scissor doors, gaudy decals and massively horrendous (including music choice) stereo system. But hey it was truly JDM so it was something totally different and something that I've never seen. What didn't enter the show but should of, in the Import category, was this Yellow Opel GT roadster that we found out in the parking lot.

Speaking of things that I've never seen late in the show a nice Yellow with Black strips Ford GT showed up to wow the crowd (he did win some award too go figure) in the race category. Also in that category was some dragracer drive to the show on drag slicks (illegally I might add) with massive twin air cleaners for god knows what sticking out of the hood blocking what had to be 75% of his view (that just had to be illegal as well). Anyways back to that GT that has been the first time that I've been able to get a good close up look at one. I tried (and of course failed) to race a nice red with white strips one back when they had just come out so I've seen them in the wild just not up close and personal. After that there just wasn't a whole lot of stuff that just jumped out at me as freaking cool as hell really.

Of course the focus of this show was about Mustangs and there were plenty on hand of every type. Scott's dad's Mustang looked really nice out there amongst the many others competing in the same category. There was a few note worthy ones of course from the Ford Mustang GT350H that was 1 of 57 cars made for Hertz rental in a lovely Blue with Gold strips. Lets just say it was worth more than the Ford GT. There was another GT350 but it was a clone. Still looked nice though. Another older interesting group were the two (yes two) Ford Mustang 302 Boss that belonged to a married couple. One complete Restoration and one modified. One of the two newer interesting Mustangs there was a 1 of 2 (I think) Chip Foose Stallion bought I believe to be a daily driver. Next to it was a SuperSnake not sure what it's story was but people were going on about how rare and cool it was. I just thought it looked cool. There were quite a few Saleen and Rousche Mustangs there as well actually but not nearly as nice as the other two.

Of course all good car shows have an awards ceremony at the end and I was pretty bummed to find out that my roommate lost 2nd place to that Smart car by ONE vote. And I didn't vote because I didn't know that spectators could vote. Thankfully our autocrossing buddy with the Honda S2000 won First place. Scott's dad also didn't win but that was some tough competition. That's all the awards that matter to me honestly and with that the show was over and the after show cruise and dinner got running. We didn't head out right away my roommate and I helped his father and the rest of the club members tear down and clean up afterwards and then we headed out to Cheerleaders for a nice dinner.

CHEERLEADERS! So there will be cheerleaders right? Well not really but pretty much that is what it is another Hooters knock off but at least the ladies were dressed in a somewhat less trashy outfit than Hooters. But yeah my roommate and I got there and my day was totally made. Sitting in the parking lost was this nice Porsche 911(996) GT2 just begging to be photographed. I mean most people were going there to look at the Shelby Mustang Gt350E (E for Elenore like the movie) that was sitting out side it's well kept home inside the building. My roommate and I inadvertently walked into the glass garage and got laughed at the hostess but it was all right we weren't the only ones who did that. The food was good the girls were nice to look at and friendly and we had a good time about 6 glasses of water latter. This made for a good end to a long day and a fun time. I just didn't get any pictures of the girls, sorry guys but there are a lot of pictures of the cars just recently uploaded to flickr to check out.

What a draining week this week was. The first half of the week was the worst week ever pretty much. Because I find my sister so freaking annoying when she's on the phone I was actually thankful that she was the one to call. She called and told me that our Mother had been diagnosed with brain cancer. So far there hasn't been any more test to discover how bad it is or what the option will be but still that is just sickening news to find out especially when you are just about to get to sleep. I didn't lose it because I was talking to my sister but the minute I tried talking to my mom I lost it in about 10 seconds and I couldn't stop crying until my sister got back on the phone. I did some research on the stuff looked up some more information and have been able to calm down a bit but yeah it's been troubling to think about and I just don't really know what to do at the moment. I tried canceling my flight down to Reno for the wedding and telling my friend that I couldn't go because of the situation with my mom even though my mother told me to go anyways. The problem with that is that they actually charge you more money to cancel the flight and then only give you back a voucher for another flight. So it looks like I'm still going to the wedding and I'll just put on a happy face and move forward even though I feel guilty about it. Bleh!

Thankfully on Saturday I was able to take my mind of the problems from earlier this week by attending the 25th annual Treasure Valley Mustang and Ford Club car show with my Roommate Scott and his father. I took some nice and some not so nice snap shots at the show had fun looking around at all the nice stuff in the valley and getting an up close and personal look at a Ford GT. It only had 700 miles on it and the guy has had it for 3 years. Funny thing is that it wasn't the most expensive car there. No that was a nice Ford GT35oH one of only 57 Blue with Gold strips Hertz GT350s. There was a lot of other nice cars and unfortunately neither Scott or his father won any awards at the show but we had a good time looking around at some cool stuff. Also for the JDM fans out there a real Right hand drive Nissan 350Z that was brought back from Okinawa made an apperance. Sure it looked rather ricey with the scissor doors, decals and stereo install but hey everyone has their own taste and just how often do you see a right hander in Idaho of all places.

Of course my day was totally made when we left the show and made our way to the after show dinner place. Sort of like Hooters but honestly in my opinion much nicer place called Cheerleaders. Now you're probably thinking Cheerleaders...so they're dressed like cheerleaders right? Well no, that's what I thought too but actually they were dressed more like Refs in skirts...skimpy little skirts and cleavage. The girls didn't make the day (though they were NICE!) no the lovely Porsche 911 GT2 that was parked outside, which we believe was the owners personal car, that made my day. Funny story too Scott and I went and looked at the Ford Mustang GT350E (E for Elenore from that movie) that was sitting outside and when we went to go inside we went into this unmarked door just thinking it was the side door got inside and found out that we were in a glassed in room. Looked around a little bit saw the cheerleaders laughing and made a hasty retreat and found the real entrance. Apparently that is the normal resting place of the Ford Mustang lives and is usually locked.

So yeah that was the week and this next week is going to be a nut job as well with visiting my mom for the first time after hearing the news and heading off to the wedding and even finding out about my stupid turnsignal ticket. So until next Monday probably, later.

I actually wanted to post a fine picture of those oh so hot race queens but damn it all I haven't been able to find any 2008 race queen pictures. You guys over there are seriously slacking off dang it. Anyways, I actually got hooked on Super GT racing back when Speed TV was actually cool and had something on other than crappy Reality TV shows and NASCRAP 24/7. Now of course I've had to turn to downloading good racing programs from the internet usually in a different language and unlike anime no one subs this stuff. Not that you really need it subbed to actually enjoy it, it does help to understand what is going on. What's even worse is that for a time I couldn't find any racing programs except F1 to download until a friend pointed me to the holy grail of racing download sites.

So this is the first year that I've been able to actually get a hold of the races in a somewhat timely manner. Of course this is a good time to get in on some new Super GT action as this is also the first year of the new racing Nissan GT-Rs in the GT500 class. They sure are hot little cars those GT-Rs wonder when AUTOart will come out with new diecasts of them.

Onto the races... The program that I've been watching splits the two groups (GT500 & GT300) into two one hour (45 minutes really) programs per race. This allows you to focus on the two groups individually which I think is a much better option than mingling the two into the same program like other TV programs have. I've only seen the first two rounds even though the season is well on it's 4th race already. So it's safe to say that I won't be giving out any new news or spoilers. In an effort to get correct information from the races and maybe some cool pictures to post I've tried something different and applied for a media pass. Will I get it who knows but I'll try anyways.

As this is getting incrediably long I'll post the races much like the program one group per post per race. Hopefully soon I'll have some hotties to grab your attention as well. Cars are nice but lets face it girls get the views. Since I also have a love for all things Porsche I might also cover the Porsche Carrera Cup of Asia since I'm also following that as well.

2008 SUPER GT SCHEDULE

Round1 - March 15-16 - Suzuka Circuit - 300km
Round2 - April 12-13 - Okayama International Circuit - 300km

Round3 - May 3-4 - Fuji Speedway - 500km

Round4 - June 21-22 - Sepang Circuit (Malaysia) - 300km

Round5 - July 26-27 - Sportsland Sugo - 300km

Round6 - August 23-24 - Suzuka Circuit - 1000km

Round7 - September 13-14 - Twin Ring Motegi - 300km

Round8 - October 18-19 - Autopolis - 300km

Round9 - November 8-9 - Fuji Speedway - 300km