Quote Originally Posted by aaronng View Post
Tsukuba's straight too long? LOL. It's not long at all.

BTW, you have to remember, it is the AP1 that is nervous at the limit. The AP2 is less. But I have a Best Motoring video showing the difference at the limit between an AP2 and the 350Z. It is a very big difference and what Tsuchiya said, at the limit in a 350Z, you are only 8/10ths committed. In an AP2, you are 10/10ths committed. If he can say that about the AP2, imagine the AP1!
Ummmmm that Tsukuba straight doesn't look long? Take a look here http://www.jasc.or.jp/outline/index.html . It is a 433 metres long straight and is one part of the circuit where faster straight line cars always have a chance to overtake the slower ones.

I also don't agree that the AP1 has such a big difference with the AP2 although obviously AP2 is slightly less nervous. My point was, even when the Japs were driving the AP1 they already unanimously gave it the vote as a top driver's machine with great at-the-limit control ability whereas the local journos bagged it for being too nervous and twitchy. The way I look at it is however, even if the S2000 is twitchy at the limit it actually won't bite like an MR2. Its twitchiness is its advantage because the top drivers can extract the most out of it!



And what hasn't been mentioned yet?

Mazda are actually trying to make Hydrogen rotaries out of the RX-8 platform. Well they already have. So I fail to understand the philosophy behind it as yet, because if rotaries really aren't that fuel efficient then aren't they putting too much effort into the wrong system to showcase their environmental products?