Beams Racing new Integra Type R wins its inaugural race at the Tokachi 24 Hour Race!

Beams Racing joins the Super Taikyu Series in time to participate in round 5, the 24 hour endurance race at Tokachi on July 21/22. Participating in Class 4 (2000cc), the no. 17 and no. 16 car finish 1st and 2nd respectively. Third place in Class 4 goes to the C-West S2000. Both Beams cars finish 593 laps, six laps more than the C-West S2000.

Overall, both cars finish in 3rd and 4th place, 10 laps behind a Class 1 (3500cc +) Skyline GT-R.

Incidentally, the Spoon S2000, also racing in Class 4, finishes 9th in its class, 27th overall, completing 509 laps.

 

and the Legend continues....

 

MiraiZ, do you follow Super Taikyu closely?

 

not really...but I know about Beams racing....they have a killer car...They'll probably win a lot more races...

 

check out the Super Taikyu website: http://www.so-net.ne.jp/s-taikyu/index.html

Here's some pics:







Beams Racing drivers, including the Drift King


The finishing cars:


The overall podium, Beams Racing no. 3:


The Class 4 podium, Beams no. 1 and 2!!!


AND of course, the infamous Baccara 5, official RQ of Super Taikyu!





[Modified by Spikey, 5:16 AM 8/4/2001]

 

Nice I think I found a new site I will frequent

 

YEAH, I'm surprised this site has remained relatively unknown for so long!

here's another new ITR... the Wakos Advan No. 28 car

 

Sweet pics...interesting that they don't use window nets or lexan or something.
Baccari 5 looks sweet too..

 

look at all those sweet cars *drool*

 

Is that one guy from Best Motoring (the guy on the far right in one of the pics you posted)? Is that who you call the "Drift King"?

 

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!

good stuff

 

Very very nice

They all look like Mugen-spec cars ....?

 

that's Tsuchiya, he's always involved in these things...you see him everywhere!

 

Yup, he also drives for the ARTA NSX team in JGTC

actually, i think all of the best motoring drivers are racing in Super Taikyu

 

those new itr's are bad ***. very nice.

 

Very nice!
hopefully those R's will one day hit our shores.

 

did you also notice they already have non-folding racing side mirrors for the new ITR already? (a la vision/spoon)

as for the cars being mugen equipped, at least it appears that Mugen did the proper wind tunnel testing with the new ITR bodykit, so it should be effective and not just a controversial looking kit.

also, i read that Honda really pushed the development of the new ITR forward so that it could make in time for FIA homologation for the upcoming racing season. Apparently, the same thing is happening with the new CTR. In the last few years, Honda has been taking a beating on the race track as its ageing cars are being beaten more often by new models. Specifically, in Super Taikyu Group N+, where the Spoon Integra used to race, the old DC2R have been getting their butts kicked by the Altezzas for the last two years. In fact, 1999 was the last year that Spoon ran a ITR in Super Taikyu, after that, they switched to the S2000 and went to a different class (C4) altogether to avoid the Altezzas in Group N+!

So anyways, Honda has been designing the new ITR and CTR with race competition in mind, so we can fully expect these cars to be big performance stars. The new ITR was designed with the goal of being at least a second per lap faster on any track than the previous ITR.

 

Oh man!!! The new ITR looks sweet! Especially the top pic where it's kitted out. I think I'll start saving money now I love those headlights!

 

Which one is the "drift king"?

 

in the picture of the four Beams drivers, he's the one on the far right

 

Those new ITR's look so good in their MUGEN body kits............