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Old 05-05-2008, 09:20 AM   #1
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Post Spoiler Alert: Super GT Rd. 3 Results

Filed under: Motorsports, Sports/GTs, Japan, Honda, Nissan, Toyota, ToysClick above for a huge, high-res gallery of Rd. 3 of the '08 SuperGT season.After previous incarnations of the Nissan GT-R ran away with successive JGTC titles, Japan's GT Association decided to inflict "success ballast" on race winners in an attempt to level the playing field (i.e give Toyota and Honda a chance).As the current GT-R race car is built to 2009 Super GT specifications, the GT-A handed it a weight penalty of 50kgs added right from the start of the season. After winning Round 1 in Suzuka car number 23...

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Old 05-05-2008, 10:17 AM   #2
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wonder what motor is in that MR2 Spyder...

anyone know off hand?
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Old 05-05-2008, 06:48 PM   #3
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im sorry but thats fukin ghey!! (read teh article) there penalizing nissan for nothing. all those cars are built to an exact specific rule book. all those cars have a chance to win a race.
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im sorry but thats fukin ghey!! (read teh article) there penalizing nissan for nothing. all those cars are built to an exact specific rule book. all those cars have a chance to win a race.
gtr's built to 09 spec, not 08 gt specs.... that is why
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im sorry but thats fukin ghey!! (read teh article) there penalizing nissan for nothing. all those cars are built to an exact specific rule book. all those cars have a chance to win a race.
Rewards weight. Seriously? Do you follow racing?
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Holy shit 440lbs ballast penalty! The new GTR must be a monster.
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Rewards weight. Seriously? Do you follow racing?

yes f1 but not jgtc. so if u win you get weighed down?...this is my first time hearing this,and the only motorsport ive seen it in. i dont understand the penalty. mabey starting the car in a diffrent pole position or adding time to there qualifying time (if they qualify like in F1) but weighing down teh car, thats weird to me.
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Maybe that is why they engineered the GT-R so heavy lol.
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im sorry but thats fukin ghey!! (read teh article) there penalizing nissan for nothing. all those cars are built to an exact specific rule book. all those cars have a chance to win a race.
From wikipedia:

"Super GT is fairly unique in its open and blunt statement that it is committed to providing exciting racing first, at the expense of runaway investment by works teams. Cars are therefore very heavily tampered with by the governing body."

"Perhaps the best-known handicap system in use in the Super GT is the 'success ballast' system where weight penalties are assigned depending on a cars performance during the race weekend."

This seems like an excessive measure, however.
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cool info. i still think its extreme but i guess it makes the championship points race very interesting...

but then again look at f1 the top 3 teams are 1 point off from each other...
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wonder what motor is in that MR2 Spyder...

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Well it is a known fact that Super GT is governed by Honda and Toyota. This is not suprising as this has been a well-known fact in Japan. So a lot of old-timers don't watch super gt cause Nissan is made not to win period. Its political not actual racing.
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Yah a lot of people have and not just you.... But Super GT is one of the worst....
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ha ha same thing they did to the R32 GTR back in 89
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