Super Lap is a time attack motorsport event. Super Lap events are being held in Australia and New Zealand.
The inaugural Superlap Australia[1] Superlap Australia event was held at the Oran Park Raceway in July 2008. It has since become an annual event attracting the fastest circuit cars in the country and even some overseas guests.
In New Zealand, the first NZ Performance Car Super Lap was held in April 2007 at Taupo Motorsport Park. It was the first event of its kind to be held in New Zealand on a race circuit. Other time trial-style events have been road-based run by motoring clubs, such as rallying and bent sprints.
Super Lap is an event specially formulated to be a total test of import street car performance and is only open to JDM (Japanese domestic market) import cars. Originating in Japan, where it is often called 'Tuner Battles' due to the involvement and competition between tuning houses in Japan to achieve victory, the style of racing has been adopted in the UK[2], USA and Australia[3].
In Australia, Super Lap is divided into three classes: Club Sprint Class, Open Class and an invitational Pro Class The requirements for each class are described on the Superlap Australia [4] website.
In its New Zealand format, Super Lap is broken down into individual classes: Street Pro (PRO), Street Private (PVT) and Unlimited class (ULM).
Street Pro consists of caged warranted, registered and certified cars. Street Private consists of uncaged, street-legal cars. The Unlimited class (introduced for Super Lap 2008 at Taupo Motorsport Park) allows those with full competition cars – those which are not road-registered, yet are clearly up to a race-ready standard – to compete. Unlimited class cars are not eligible to win Super Lap.
Competitors are timed over a single flying lap of the track in a qualifying format. Competitors start from the pit lane on its out-lap. When the car crosses the start-finish line for the first time, the timer is started. The timer is stopped when the start-finish line is crossed at the end of the flying lap, and the competitor performs and in-lap, returning to the pits. The fastest ten go into a top-10 shootout in the same format. The winner of this wins the event.
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Readily available high performance Japanese imports are used such as:
For a full list of results go to [6]
Pro ClassWinner – Tilton Interiors Evo 9 - 1:12.10 2nd – Advan/Hi Octane Racing R34 GTR - 1:13.63 3rd – Notaras Racing Evo 9 - 1:14.24 Open ClassWinner – Southern Motorworks Toyota-powered Lotus Exige – Driven By John Boston - 1:15.22 2nd – Bilstein Racing RX-7 – Driven By Ryan Brown - 1:15.83 3rd – Insight Motorsports/Elias Augerinos Honda S2000 – Driven By John Boston - 1:16.26 Fastest 4WD – Mark Rayner Evo 9 - 1:16.81 Fastest RWD – Southern Motorworks Lotus Exige – Driven By John Boston - 1:15.22 Fastest FWD – Pro Concept Honda civic – Driven By Jacky Yick - 1:17.23 Fastest 4 Cylinder – Southern Motorworks Lotus Exige – Driven By John Boston - 1:15.22 Fastest 6 Cylinder – SM Motorsport BMW M3 – Driven By Sam Markov - 1:16.96 Fastest 8 Cylinder – Caltex Guildford – Driven By Peter Hennesy - 1:22.88 Fastest Rotary – Bilstein Racing RX7 – Driven By Ryan Brown - 1:15.83 Fastest Naturally Aspirated – Bilstein Racing RX-7 – Driven By Ryan Brown - 1:15.83 Fastest Owner Driver – Bilstein Racing RX7 – Driven By Ryan Brown - 1:15.83 Clubsprint ClassWinner – Jeramiah Thomas Evo 9 - 1:18.76 2nd – Jason Naidoo Evo 8 - 1:19.40 3rd – Marek Tomaszewski Evo 9 - 1:19.58 Fastest 4WD – Jeramiah Thomas Evo 9 - 1:18.76 Fastest RWD – Evan McCormack Mazda RX7 - 1:24.59 Fastest FWD – Tim Ware Honda Integra Type R - 1:24.80 Fastest 4 Cylinder – Jeramiah Thomas Evo 9 - 1:18.76 Fastest 6 Cylinder – Bill Miller Nissan R34 GTR - 1:22.54 Fastest 8 Cylinder – Brad Lowe HDT Special Vehicles VE Commodore - 1:24.76 Fastest Rotary – Evan McCormack Mazda RX7 - 1:24.59 Fastest Naturally Aspirated – Brad Lowe HDT Special Vehicles VE Commodore - 1:24.76 See all the lap times and full listing at Natsoft
This results table shows the fastest overall times of the day. Barry Manon, in third place, was the first non-Unlimited class car, and therefore claimed the Super Lap title for Taupo 2008. Defending champion Scott Kreyl retired with mechanical difficulties.
| Position | Name | Vehicle | Top 13 Time | Shoot-Out Time | Best Time of Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Grant Hohaia | Silver 1983 Toyota Corolla | 1.15.45 | 1.16.36 | 1.15.45 |
| 2nd | Jonothan Lester | Blue 1994 Toyota Supra | 1.16.42 | DNR | 1.16.42 |
| 3rd | Barry Manon | Blue 1988 Toyota Levin GTZ | 1.16.97 | 1.16.93 | 1.16.93 |
| 4th | Ian Campbell | Blue 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 6 | 1.17.10 | 1.17.38 | 1.17.10 |
| 5th | Dirk Schmidt | Orange 1994 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 2 | 1.17.17 | 1.17.19 | 1.17.17 |
| 6th | Mark Walters | White 1988 Honda Civic | 1.17.75 | 1.17.62 | 1.17.62 |
| 7th | Daynom Templeman | Grey 1994 Mazda RX7 | 1.17.84 | DNR | 1.17.84 |
| 8th | Brendan Sole | White 1990 Mazda RX7 | 1.18.45 | 1.18.52 | 1.18.45 |
| 9th | Kenneth Au | Black 2004 Nissan Silvia/200SX S15 | 1.18.72 | 1.19.72 | 1.18.72 |
| 10th | Chris Trundle | White 1990 Mazda RX7 | 1.19.44 | 1.18.93 | 1.18.93 |
Scott Kreyl in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII retained his Super Lap title.
| Position | Driver | Vehicle | Class | Fastest Lap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Kreyl | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | Street Pro | 1.02.03 |
| 2 | Garry Sutton | Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R | Street | 1.02.83 |
| 3 | Harry Dodson | Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R | Street Pro | 1.04.63 |
| 4 | Barry Manon | Toyota Levin GT-Z AE92 | Street | 1.04.80 |
| 5 | Grant Hohaia | Toyota Levin AE86 | Street Pro | 1.04.86 |
| 6 | Dirk Schmidt | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II | Street | 1.05.06 |
| 7 | Brent Love | Mazda RX-7 FD3S | Street | 1.06.58 |
| 8 | Ian Campbell | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI | Street | 1.06.74 |
| 9 | Simon Turner | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III | Street Pro | 1.07.19 |
| 10 | Kenneth Au | Nissan Silvia S15 | Street | 1.07.23 |
| Placing | Car # | Entrant | Vehicle | Time | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 | Scott Kreyl | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.12.75 | Private |
| 2 | 14 | Brent Ingram | Toyota Starlet GT | 1.14.30 | Pro |
| 3 | 47 | Dirk Scherbius | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.14.60 | Private |
| 4 | 41 | Ian Campbell | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.14.75 | Private |
| 5 | 18 | Victor Chapman | Nissan Silvia S13 | 1.14.78 | Pro |
| 6 | 7 | Grant Hohaia | Toyota Levin | 1.15.57 | Pro |
| 7 | 11 | Jason Gill | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.15.63 | Pro |
| 8 | 3 | Harry Dodson | Nissan Skyline | 1.16.71 | Pro |
| 9 | 49 | Craig Silby | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.16.94 | Private |
| 10 | 55 | Nick Bowyer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo | 1.17.55 | Private |