NSW Sydney Motorsport Park - 16-17 August - Hot Tuners

[gareth_oau]

just reading my Motor magazine, and it advises they are doing their Hot Tuner event at the Sydey Motorsport Park on 16/17 August, and for the first time, gates are open to the public.

Might be good to watch!!

[MACCAA]

Good couple of days entertainment,Thursday is best with Luffy hot lapping the South Circuit,and Rick Kelly on the Figure Eight.
Mainline will be doing the Dynoing then too.
Friday is mainly Drags at WSID with Luffy/Morley doing the driving.
I'll be there with the APR Golf R Stage 4,and moonlighting with the MRT BRZ if required.
Worth going just to see Luffy in action!
Cheers
Len

[Guy_H]

Our Golf R has just left Brisbane for the event - lets see if we can get some spectators out there this year.

Golf R's are the most popular cars - 4 entered of 30 entries.

APR Golf R (stage 4)
City Performance Centre Golf R (unknown mods?)
Viezu Golf R
EVL Golf R (KW / Akropovic big turbo?)

Head to head - independently tested, independently dynoed by Mainline's own staff on their own dyno.

Should be awesome fun.

Nice to get a VIEZU Golf R out for a dyno test too!

If you are coming out - drop in & see us.

[Guy_H]

MOTOR Magazine Teams with Toyo Tires in 2012 Hot Tuner Challenge

(July 24, 2012)

As MOTOR Magazine’s Hot Tuner Challenge enters its fourth consecutive year, Toyo Tires will be headlining the competition.

Targeting high performance car enthusiasts, the event will attract at least 30 of Australia’s premier after-market tuning workshops to produce the ultimate legal and reliable road missile.

MOTOR Magazine Editor, Andrew MacLean, officially announced the partnership with Toyo Tires today.

“I’d like to welcome Toyo Tires as our new naming rights partner for the event,” he said.

“The Toyo brand is most recognized for its performance and reputation amongst car enthusiasts, and its involvement in Hot Tuner provides numerous benefits to us and participants in the event.”





The competition will take place over two days - August 16 and 17 - at the Sydney Motorsport Park and competitors will gain points across the following categories:

ACCELERATION: 0-100km/h and 0-400m
BRAKING: 100-0km/h; time, distance and peak G-Force
POWER: Dyno testing for peak power and torque – Dyno supplied by Mainline
TIGHT LAP: Eastern Creek skid pan; measuring overall time, corner speeds and V-Max
FAST LAP: Sydney Motorsport Park Circuit; measuring overall time, corner speeds and V-Max

Points will be awarded for each test and calculated to determine an overall winner, therefore crowning the most outstanding all-round vehicle and tuner the winner of Toyo Tires Hot Tuner Challenge 2012.

Toyo Tires’ marketing manager, José Angeles, says the competition gives Toyo the opportunity to showcase its range of high performance tyres.

“Toyo constantly monitors the performance of our products in the marketplace and the Hot Tuner Challenge will allow our tyres to be proven under a variety of performance tests and conditions,” he said.

“We’ve been a regular contender in MOTOR’s annual tyre test, and the performance we glean from our involvement in Hot Tuner combined with the opportunity to work closely with some of Australia’s best workshops will be very valuable to us. “

This year’s field promises to be more intense than ever before and will feature motoring’s best, including Ford, Holden, VW, Porsche, BMW, Subaru and Nissan.

“We’ll have rare access to a stable of late model high performance vehicles to further test our range of PROXES race and road spec performance tyres locally,“Mr Angeles added.

And it seems tuners will need little convincing to use Toyo Tires in the competition.

[Guy_H]

[seangti]

Quite interest to see VW is now the new WRX of yester-year.

Guy, how come the polo isn't making an appearance? Not yet sufficiently modded or targeting the shoot-out with a car that's capable of winning in the group?

[Guy_H]

Hey Sean, Motor are going to try to run another FWD shootout later - We will save the new Improved Polo for that - and debut our new MK6 GTI. Take on the Renaults, Focus's, Citroen's on in a more even playing field

[kryten2001]

Very interested in seeing how the Toyotas fair... Anybody know if those tuner optioned 86's are normally aspirated or turboed? I'm guessing NA.....

[Ideo]

Who are EVL?

Looking forward to the results. One of the few annual events I still look forward to in Motor.

[seangti]

Looking forward to the results. One of the few annual events I still look forward to in Motor.

Yeah the tuner shoot outs are probably the best thing a motoring magazine has done in recent times. Particularly when track days have become so accessible.

[Guy_H]

Who are EVL?

Looking forward to the results. One of the few annual events I still look forward to in Motor.

EVL Are the KW & Akropovic importers

[Ideo]

EVL Are the KW & Akropovic importers

Ahhh, fair enough. Never heard of them.

Cheers.

Are results coming out before the magazine publishes?

[MACCAA]

No.
wouldn't be much point doing the magazine if they did.

[piston broke]

Very interested in seeing how the Toyotas fair... Anybody know if those tuner optioned 86's are normally aspirated or turboed? I'm guessing NA.....

There were quite a few tuner 86's on display out at WTAC last week, at least two were supercharged.

[Bug_racer]

Im pissed that I didnt get any invite to this even though Ive emailed them a few months before the event and contacted them on facebook , and yes they ignored me ! Its not Hot tuner challenge but Motor Magazine sponsors only challenge . I guess some of the big names dont want to be embarrassed by a small budget outfit !