Aha!! I bet some of you already had archive links copied and ready to paste on here to shout at me: "search! n00b!".

But this is not your everyday car A vs car B thread. While Japanese tourist had their orgy trip, I attended the Type-R orgy party the very same week in Zhuhai International Raceway during my trip to China. It's the round 6&7 of the Hong Kong Super Touring Car Championship, with two classes of SuperTouring and 1600cc groups. The weird thing is, in both groups, although all other makes of cars were allowed, all you see are Hondas, guess they are the car of choice of them racers in HK for economical reasons...

In the Super Touring Group, they are mainly consisted of EP3, DC5 and DC2 Type-Rs. So who's gonna win the race?

First thing I spotted is this CTR....4 lugs?

Ah...the pit...anyone heard of this Pipercross CAI for DC2s? Manufacturered in UK.

EP3 Type mini-Van!

For some reason, Frosty Flakes comes to mind...

Interesting relocation of the wires...and, Motul CAI y0!

mini-mini van heading out to the grocery store...

yummy...DC5s...



DC2 vs DC5


#69....hmm, I wouldn't mind getting in to some 69 with the umbrella girl for the night as well..


D0pe!! Lined up at the wrong grid...


Ready for Warm up lap...


Standing still start....team AIA <an insurance company> has the lead..


....and he still has the lead for good into turn 3...where are the others?


ah...here they are, trailing 1/4 lap behind after 3 laps.


and suprisingly, another 1/4 lap behind are these guys. Due to some team playing "teamwork", they remain like that for the rest of the race.




Yup, yup, the AIA DC5-R won the race comfortably, with another DC5 being the runner-up. The CW DC2 left the race shortly due to technical issues, and the other DC2, well, as you can see in the pics, were dead last
For more media coverage, check here:
http://www.dunloptyres.com.hk/....html

This links to a slideshow that has better shots than mine.
http://www.ianmar.net/ec/slide...bum11
I can't seem to find HTCC's homepage for the lap times, if anyone knows, please post them.


Bonus pics at Hong Kong Kayaba:

This one's gotta be real...





Modified by nEoMuGen at 3:48 PM 10/16/2003


Modified by nEoMuGen at 3:52 PM 10/16/2003

 

Great pics.

 

Can't stress enough, CLICK TO THIS LINK FOR ACTION SHOTS:

http://www.ianmar.net/ec/slide...bum11

 

cool stuff! thanks!


<-- thinks he needs to find an umbrella girl for the expo..

 

The Honda will win.

 

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&lt;-- thinks he needs to find an umbrella girl for the expo.. </TD></TR></TABLE>

I got lots of umbrella girl pics, but fearing the mods...

 

yao!

poor DC2's lol

awesome pics

 

ive seen lots of those pics from races in japan and stuff.. all those girls have umbrellas.. does it always rain, or are they like those pit signs that nascar holds out?

 

im tired of watching domestics fly around a giant circle at 200 mph (nascar); where can i watch this sorta stuff in the states?

 

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y0gi!

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http://www.speedvisionwc.com/

 

For 1600cc groups, it's much more expensive to get race parts from Toyota or Mitsubishi than Honda, there's Mirage & Levin Corolla attend sometimes ago, finally, most drivers change to Honda because they're fast & good in handling

By the way, the 50th Anniversay Macau Grand Prix will launch in mid Nov, it will be more fun.

 

great pics dude, thanks for sharing. nice to see pics of racing from different parts fo the world

 

Those are beautiful photos and beautiful cars!!

 

I miss HK so much

Great pics

 

first pic of the "ctr" if those are 4x100 pattern I think those volks are knockoffs

nice pix by the way.. post some more umbrella chicks ... fear the mods? please the mods..

 

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wait a second... what's a DC5R doing in a 1600cc group??

btw, nice pictures!!!

and the link to the action picture doesn't work though.

 

Honda Challange JDM style?

I wanna go back to Hong Kong, that place rules.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 01-1194 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wait a second... what's a DC5R doing in a 1600cc group??

btw, nice pictures!!!

and the link to the action picture doesn't work though. </TD></TR></TABLE>


Wait till this thread gets to page two and I'll post some 1600cc groups and chick pics, don't wanna clog HT .

The link works for me...
http://www.ianmar.net/ec/slide...bum11
maybe you can use reply and quote to get the full link, then copy and paste to your browser.

 

Nice pics
Too bad about the DC2

 

I think those DC2s are just there to let new racers of the team to get track time, no way they can beat DC5s/EP3s giving the same mods. Well, beaten by DC5s arent so bad, at least not by Celicas

 

nice pic @@ anymore racing queens hehe

 

nice pic! i am always wondering about how difficult is zhuhai track. coz whenever i read some track day over there, it seem like there are always crazy story about car flip and bad accdient. make it look like hkese couldn't even drive.
anyway, i would say put a good 2.0 b18c(not stroke up one) motor in a dc2 and dc5 would have a hard time to win.

 

awesome pics

 

nice pics...imo those cw ek's are sick...anymore pics of em...and 4 lug ctr??? dumb question but does volk even make 4 lug wheels???