Toyota GR Supra GT4 - First VLN race of 2019

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The Supra was 63rd overall..out of almost 150 finishing cars and 3rd "in class" but quite some ways from the 1st and 2nd place cars. I'm not sure how the classes are distributed so take from this what you may.
 

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The Supra was 63rd overall..out of almost 150 finishing cars and 3rd "in class" but quite some ways from the 1st and 2nd place cars. I'm not sure how the classes are distributed so take from this what you may.
Where are the final results and do you know which cars brought 1st and 2nd?!
 

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The Supra was 63rd overall..out of almost 150 finishing cars and 3rd "in class" but quite some ways from the 1st and 2nd place cars. I'm not sure how the classes are distributed so take from this what you may.
From the video coverage like the MKV wasn't really on it and was getting passed on several turns.
 

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Where are the final results and do you know which cars brought 1st and 2nd?!
From what I read was 1st - M2 Competition and 2nd - Mercedes-AMG GT4 in the Supra's Class
 

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Results Attached. Lookup SPT8 in the attached file.

Its very very hard to judge anything from this, postive or negative. There is a mountain of cars, and a mountain of classes. Its like trying to compare apples with oranges, plus bananas, hats, a spanner, some chalk and cheese as well. We can say the A90 is 3rd in the class, but its only 6 entries, with one DNF's which was the second AMG of the team that came in 2nd.


The one thing I will say is: After seeing this, forget the rocket bunny kit or a 2jz - RIght now there are a bunch of tuners working on creating a visual replica of that car for customers. Just like we saw with the old Castrol TOM's livery of celica's and supra's in the 80/90's, people are going to be putting A90's on the street looking just like that.
It did a time of 4:11:03
 

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It ended 3rd out of 6 in the SP8T class. Not bad.

Best laptime was 10 min 47 seconds. This is for the full Nordschleife plus the modern GP (F1) circuit which is an additional 5.2kms, so you cannot compare to the typical internet "Nurburgring" laptime.

At this early stage of development, I´m glad to see the B58 + ZF8 is holding up to over 4 hours of heavy track use. Interesting to know if there´s anything done to the engine other than cooling improvements: dry sump?




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The Supra was 63rd overall..out of almost 150 finishing cars and 3rd "in class" but quite some ways from the 1st and 2nd place cars. I'm not sure how the classes are distributed so take from this what you may.
This isn't the actual 24 hour nurburg race so VLN 3 is still mostly a test for a lot of the teams. Plus this whole project is probably for durability and mechanic training anyway. The result isn't the number one priority I'd say. Plus There's a lot of GT3 cars which are supposed to be faster proably before it.
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