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Hi all

Haven't had a chance to update since Jamboree been busy working and what not.

So we had a rollercoaster weekend at J23 this year, all things did not quite go to plan, but at the end of the day we still went quicker grabbing another PB/ World Record, still not finding the limit to this car it is amazing. We have managed to scalp some big name companies in this quest to become the worlds quickest and we are gonna try continue this domination by becoming the first 7 sec Radial GTR in the world and lay the Smack down to AMS R35 GTR plus anyone else who would like to join in on the action. Would be great to have all these cars in one country to compete with each other but this is not the case we are spread all across the world.

Over the weekend we were finding it hard to get consistent runs due to the track conditions being unpredictable, plus the car was still being tuned every run by Mr Godzilla Mark Jacobsen, so the data was all over the show. We would have loved to get some more 8 sec passes but we could only manage 2 decant runs for the weekend. First of the bat Saturday morning we reeled of a 8.54 @ 159mph straight off the trailer and things were looking promising. 2nd run the power steering belt decided to go walk about and took out the hall sensor on crank trigger, had to tow car back to pits, new sensor and power steering was scraped and decided to run with out it for the rest of weekend. 3rd run we bogged the start as the track was too sticky and didn't have enough HP dialled in off the line to spin all 4's.

Sunday morning straight up in round 1 of final we nailed it, peeled of a 8.39 @164mph, was not 100% clean run but still very happy with the result. 2nd round we got knocked out as we smoked the tires off the line, too many HP's and that was J23 over for us.

Was a great result for us the Car survived with no breakages, got another record under the belt, now as far as I'm aware and correct me if I'm wrong but we are now the Worlds Fastest Radial Tyre RB GTR Skyline and the Worlds Fastest H Pattern GTR, the only car in front of us now is AMS R35 GTR which has done a 8.28sec on radials. Its a bit hard to compare the new VR38 Powered R35's against the old school RB Powered R32, 33 , 34's, but we are gonna try beat that time and do it with a manual gearbox, no gay arse dual clutch auto for us :woot: . A Big thanks to the Race Bred Enterprises team and Godzilla Motorsport's Mark Jacobsen with out your efforts this would not have been achievable.

I am still going through the footage still gotta make a compilation Vids but here's some pics and a quick speedo vid.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Been Slack of late made a quick vid of the 8.39sec pass here it is, turn the speakers up and enjoy the sweet sound of RB goodness :woot: .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNLs_gONSQ8

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