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Here’s non-car related material…

I went to shoot my brother’s band last night at club called CLWBIFORBACH. It’s the first time I try this kind of photography and I really enjoyed it and the band was awesome. They play a sort of hardcore mixed with instrumental epic and it sounds amazing.

I used the 0.45x lens which worked quite well, its not perfectly sharp in some photos and the lens is long and it comes into the way of the flash when zoomed out completely, I definitely need a new proper flash.

Edit:

Forgot to add a link: Here for their Myspace

RIP Atsushi Kuroi. One the best drifters, the craziest smoke and angle… a style like none other.
You will be missed.

i may put in 5Zigen

Ahhh, usual wheel decision troubles. Even though I am miles away from even buying wheels I still think about what I want even though it will probably change when the time comes.

I seriously like the look of these ZR+520 wheels, they’re different from the usual performance type wheel but they weigh a hefty 10kg each which is pretty bad.

But they look amazing:

Decide 226

Breaking the 1 minute barrier at Tsukuba in an FF car is a major feat, it’s a target that most FF tuners aim for and there have been only a couple who have managed it. Decide 226 attempted to break this barrier with they’re Civic EG6. A fell just short with a 1:00.678. I wonder if they will ever try again…

380ps and 926kg. You gotta love EGs.

Despite the fact that they specialize in audio equipment they tune some very nice cars.

A sweet Mazda Autozam AZ-1:

Loving the RS Watanabes and that front wing is quite something.

A Time Attack R33:

GT Academy 2010 – Not Too Bad…

The Gran Turismo Academy competition finished last sunday. I gave it a good go to see how fast I actually am in this game and I’m quite happy with my result. I finished 279th out of over 50000 entries in the UK. The competition consisted in doing the fastest lap possible with 2 cars on the Indianapolis Road Course, a stock 370Z and a Tuned one. The times were then combined.

I don’t how the hell they managed to do such quick times, I thought I was at the limit but clearly not. The stock car held me back as I just could not get the power down, with the Tuned car I was just over 1 second being the fastest.

Still waiting for Gran Turismo 5……………….

おリーぶ

Olive

I’ve loved this pale olive colour since the day I saw it on Eigo Nakasaka’s Spirant 180SX and since then I’ve always thought of my next project car being this colour. But it seems to be getting more popular, which is a shame.

It’s a soft and calm colour but at the same time it’s incredibly aggressive, almost military like.

This S15 has being currently making it’s way around the internet and it’s not hard to see why.

Let’s not forget Nikolay Konstantinov’s RPS13.

There definitely seems to be a change in taste of car colour as there have been quite a few pale coloured cars trying to ironically stand out. I like pale colours…

The reason why the title is in Japanese text is because I’ve just started my Japanese lessons, so I thought I would phonetically write out Olive using my newly acquired Hiragana chart.

You Gotta Love Google Earth

Lost the menu of a nearby Chinese take-away, so what do you do if your too lazy to move? Street view…

I’m sure you’ve all looked for winding roads nearby, this particular road was resurfaced not long ago and leads to nowhere but some ski lifts.

I’ve wasted countless hours looking for random stuff. Garage Defend:

An old Alfa Romeo test track just outside of Milan:

Nearing The End

This is what I’ve been up to for the past 2 damn weeks, tea, biscuits and studying. The end is near but I’ve had enough. I was thinking about going home to see some Team DABA drift test and a Monza track day based on Japanese cars, but flying across Europe for 2 days to see something is a bit much. Hopefully there will be something on in the next few weeks here in Cardiff.

Tea and whole load of Digestives keeps me going…

So sick of this stuff.

FT-86 G Sports and Data Logger Visualization

There’s been a lot of news and coverage of the stunning FT-86 G Sports Concept, but I thought I would post up a video as well of Toyota/Polyphony Digital’s collaboration on the Data Logger Visualization through the “soon-to-be-released” Gran Turismo 5.

Firstly, here are some nice press photos of the G Concept:

Looks like there will be a turbo version…

It comes with the Data Logger Visualization which basically records most of the car’s parameters and position on the track through GPS. This data can then be uploaded into Gran Turismo 5 and played back as a ghost while you drive to compared laps, some trick stuff.
Here’s a video of a test done with an IS-F at Fuji Speedway comparing real life lap to the data uploaded:

Crazy how accurate it is, there are going to be some major advancements in the use of car telemetry.
This could be seriously useful for teams to practice if they can’t do a lot of testing and if GT5’s physics are accurate enough, people could start setting up cars virtually then running them in real life.

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