Hi Jap fans. Well the season’s finally over for the Jap Racer series run in its present format. Congratulations to both Steve Guirey and Paul Jones at winning their respective categories and commiserations to the series runners up; Dean Buxton and Scott Whitelaw for their second place positions in the Unlimited and Front Wheel Drive classes respectively. Here is the top five positions for each of the two categories:

UNLIMITED
1. Steve Guirey (Subaru Type R14) 2410 pts
2. Dean Buxton (Nissan Skyline R32 GTR) 2035
3. Team Tomlinson & Farrer (Nissan Skyline R32 GTR) 1995
4. Hugh Keir (Nissan Skyline) 600
5. Darren Lawrence (Subaru Impreza) 550

FRONT WHEEL DRIVE
1. Paul Jones (Honda Civic Type R) 2920 pts
2. Scott Whitelaw (Honda Civic Type R) 1745
3. Guy Chamberlain (Honda Civic Type R) 1685
4. Adam Buckley (Honda Civic Type R) 600
5. Liza Wood (Honda Civic VTi) 200

I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thanks to our supporters: Garth Wong of MGT Racing, the guys at Japanese Performance Magazine, and Motorshack & VP Racing’s Steve Wood. Thanks guys. So, the winters here, but there’s lots to look forward too and with the first round of the Pro Street Drag Series just 23 weeks away, that’s 172 days to get that car rolling and onto the track. See you in 2008.

Any chance of the best times being posted.

Jeff

mine was 11.824 (Darren Lawrence)
Steve Guiry was around 9.3 iirc

The class records stands like this but I will see if I can compile a list from the season ending top 10 points listing for elapsed times and top speeds in the next week or so.

Unlimited – Keith Cowie (Nissan Skyline R32 GTR) 8.853s/161.45 mph
JRU - Steve Guirey (Subaru Type R14) 9.371s/151.72 mph
JRF - Paul Jones (Honda Civic Type R) 10.89s; Guy Chamberlain (Honda Civic Type R) 138.16 mph

As promised a list of ET Performance Bests of registered drivers for both JRU & JRF classes taken from rounds conducted at Shakespeare County Raceway this year. Hope its what you guys wanted.

Jap Racer Unlimted Performance Bests
Information courtesy of SCR/Portatree Timing

Steve Guirey – Subaru Type R14 – 9.371
Hugh Keir - Nissan Skyline – 10.120
Andy Forrest – Subaru Impreza Type R -10.135
Team Tomlinson & Farrer – Nissan Skyline R32 GTR – 11.370
Dean Buxton – Nissan Skyline R32 GTR – 11.422
Darren Lawrence – Subaru Impreza – 11.824
Terry Wilson – Nissan Skyline GTR – 11.885
Javed Rahada - Nissan – 11.974
Rob Rawle – Subaru Impreza – 12.115
Simon Hill – Subaru Impreza – 12.248
Chris Myatt – Nissan Skyline GTR – 12.377
Neville Ayres – Subaru Sti Type R – 12.420
Nahim Hussain – Mitsubishi EVO 2 Lancer – 12.704
Simon Paul – Toyota Supra – 12.719
Shaun Fennings – Subaru Impreza Spec C – 12.792
Craig Newitt - Subaru – 12.804
Paul West – Nissan Skyline R33 GTR – 13.117
Anwan Khassah – Subaru Sti – 13.143
David Shakespeare – Subaru Impreza – 13.199
Steve Lloyd – Nissan Skyline GTR – 13.258
Rob Audley – Mitsubishi EVO GSR – 13.491
Robert Browning – Subaru Impreza Type R Sti – 13.630
Michael Lovett Nissan Skyline GTST – 13.680
Paul Byrne – Nissan Skyline GTS-T – 13.788
Raymond McGroarty – Nissan Skyline – 13.818
Andrew Deghan – Nissan Skyline GTR - 13.840
A. Ornd – Nissan Skyline GTR R33 – 13.937
D.P. Clark – Nissan Skyline GTR – 14.140
Andrew Gicquel – Toyota MR2 Turbo – 14.190
James Tucker Toyota Celica GT4 – 14.336
Matthew Parsons – Nissan Skyline GTST – 14.689
Alex Currie – Nissan Skyline R33 GTS – 14.803
Mike Pullard – Nissan Skyline GTST – 14.893
Shaun Williams – Lexas Soarer – 14.989
Stuart Mutch – Mitsubishi FTO – 15.197
W. Powell – Nissan Skyline R33 GTS – 15.452
Thomas Wilkins – Nissan Skyline – 16.277
Dan Mason – Mazda 323F – 16.317
James Pattison – Nissan Skyline – 17.442

Jap Racer Front Wheel Drive Performance Bests
Information courtesy of SCR/Portatree Timing

Paul Jones – Honda Civic Type R – 10.890
Guy Chamberlain – Honda Civic Type R – 10.976
Scott Whitelaw – Honda Civic Type R – 11.050
Peter Cattell – Honda Civic Type R – 12.831
Oliver Crawford – Honda Civic Type R - 13.319
Adam Buckley – Honda Civic Type R – 13.395
Errol Huell – Honda Civic Type R – 13.510
Scott Maydew – Subaru Sti – 13.572
Liza Wood - Honda Civic Vti – 14.530

This is interesting.
If all the drivers in the Jap Racer series this year entered the Pro Street Drag Series and assuming that these times are representative we would have the following:
Pro class - no cars!
9.3 - 10.3 - 3 cars
10.3 - 11.3 - 3 cars (all FWD)
11.3 - 12.3 - 7 cars
12.3 - 13.3 - 11 cars plus 24 running slower than 13.3

Simon

woooohooooooooo

3rd fastest scoob behind SMG and AFP
happy with that