Hi Yee,JDM NA
Rank Car No. Name: Car Lap Time (Damp) Class Team
1 6 Chris2000 FD2 Honda Civic Type-R 2:45.007 NA-SS Pentagon
2 1 Gareth Tan FD2 Honda Civic Type-R 2:47.810 NA-SS
3 8 Andy Chong FD2 Honda Civic Type-R 2:52.027 NA-SS Kazama
4 3 Lee Hong Chi FD2 Honda Civic Type-R 3:02.556 NA-SS
5 5 Mohamed Hizam Ishak DC5 Honda Integra Type-R 3:03.815 NA-SS Pentagon
Tom: base on the result sheet i have, result above is NA-R class, and some cars which clock faster than the top 20 road cars are missing. For example: car 25 in NA-SS
I would not read too much into the timings for the TTA event. To class the last OPEN session as a damp track is pushing it in my opinion. Does not matter whether it was NA-SS or NA-R because it would not make sense for the drivers to improve their timings from 3mins + to 240s in "damp" conditions other than a very much drier track condition. In fact, the timing are closer to dry times already. Although still a few seconds off depending on the mods of the cars from my own encounters with sunny hot trackdays, at least for the FD2 Type Rs.
Do hope that the organisers appreciate the feedback and work the event as per the briefing and make it a genuine time attack event where conditions are more or less equal/fair for participants. At the same time, its understandable its the first time such an event is being conducted by them and everyone is learning. Probably the second TTA Sepang event will be a more accurate gauge.
The Hall of Fame looks more like an F1 qualifying session result in the sense that some cars put in times that top the charts in wet weather and then as the track dried out, those who will still around benefitted from the drier track. And yet everyone is classified together under (damp) conditions, a misleading gauge of Sepang times.
Cheers
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