Attention racers,
Event 20 is over, and I’m not late, my temporality has just been slightly delayed for reasons. Anyways, here are some results:
Full results and more on the event sheet.
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PHLS#21 officially starts now, exactly on time, and you will have to drive a lightly modified Lexus LFA at Daytona.
About the Lexus LFA
In the early 2000s, while European manufacturers are fighting it out to make the ultimate sports cars, Japanese car makers have to face the fact they have nothing that can compete.
The NSX is outdated, the Skyline GT-R is more readily associated with the crass street racing scene thanks to Fast & Furious and Need for Speed, and Toyota’s flagship has become the Prius.
To correct that, Toyota would start the development in 2000 of a sports car to rule all sports cars, far superior to their aging Supra grand tourer.
It would incorporate the best technologies of the time, a carbon fiber monocoque, carbon ceramic brakes, active spoiler, paddle shifters, and state of the art suspensions, stuff reserved for the most exclusive hypercars.
It would give it a luxurious interior full of carbon, leather and alcantara to showcase the height of Japanese sporting elegance, and a distinctive style so that nothing on the road would look like it.
It would partner with Yamaha Motors to produce a V10 smaller than a V8 and light as a V6, and with Yamaha Corporation to develop an exhaust system that would give it what some still call the best sounding engine ever.
But it took ten years to develop the car from scratch. Although the LFA was generally described as a brilliant car by those who drove it, the time it spent in development gave other manufacturers plenty of time to give it a healthy competition, while also commanding a steep price that its performance couldn’t quite justify.
The Lexus LFA is complete flex by Toyota, that can certainly give sweats to its contemporary Nissan GT-R, Ferrari 458, Lambo Gallardo, Porsche 911, or AMG SLS, and, true to its mission purpose, even tickle the best supercars of the early 2000s.
See full details, past results, polls for events 21 and 22 in the top post.
In other news, I’m moving the deadline by one hour due to daylight savings time.