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Posted Jul 20 2009, 02:52 PM by Mike Garrett with 10 comment(s)

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A couple weeks ago I headed down to beautiful Oceanside, California to visit what might be the best known Subaru tuning shop in North America - Crawford Performance. Not only is Crawford big among Subaru enthusiasts around the world, but millions of people have been exposed to their car building work following the Ken Block Gymkhana videos. The story behind the company and what they do is an interesting one, but I'll save that for the next post. For now let's focus on Crawford's unlimited class time attack car. Known as "Tony the Tiger" because of its orange and black livery, this 2008 STI is said to be the fastest new body style Impreza in the world. ...
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Posted Jul 16 2009, 03:38 PM by Mike Garrett with 4 comment(s)

 

Sit onboard with Tarzan Yamada as he pilots the Cyber Evo to a 1:42.3 lap time during a testing session at Fuji Speedway back in March. No special effects or music needed...

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Posted Jul 02 2009, 08:00 AM by Linhbergh Nguyen with 6 comment(s)

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Since this is the start of an awesome AWD themed month, I figure we would start off with a desktop of Tarzan Yamada driving the Crawford Perfomance STI down the main straight of Buttonwillow Raceway at the first round of this year's Redline Time Attack series. Head to the desktops section to grab your choice of wide screen or standard versions! -Linhbergh Nguyen

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Posted Dec 25 2008, 09:00 AM by Jeroen Willemsen with 12 comment(s)

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A post made by Ben Schaffer on his blog regarding the aero on the Super GT 350Z, got me thinking about the Cyber Evo. I agree both cars are totally different but they are made with the same intention: to go as fast possible. Nowadays, it's not only a matter of pure power but maybe more so about downforce and handling. I wanted to highlight the aero aspect on the Cyber Evo. In the above picture, we can see the Cyber Evo getting ready for the Revspeed Tsukuba Super Battle. The car has undergone...
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Posted Dec 10 2008, 03:36 PM by Antonio Alvendia with 5 comment(s)

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Hey kids! Early Christmas present... You can now find Tarzan's Time Attack Impreza in our desktops section . And just because I know some of you may want them, sorry, I don't have any high res John Brooks photos of this car. Hit up John or Rod for that! Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah... (BTW I love Adam Sandler's brilliant SNL rendition of the Hannukah song... who agrees with me on this? If you don't know, google it.) -Antonio Alvendia

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Posted Dec 10 2008, 12:44 PM by Antonio Alvendia with 20 comment(s)

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Team Tarzan’s Tomei Cusco Impreza was one of the highest anticipated cars for Super Street’s 2008 Super Lap Battle. The renowned pair of engine and suspension component companies teamed up to build a car capable of upsetting the lap record Nobuteru Taniguchi set in 2007 with the HKS Hypermax Evo. Although the aim was to conquer California’s Buttonwillow Raceway, the majority of the testing and tuning was all done in Japan. The traditional course configuration for the Super Lap Battle...
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Posted Nov 13 2008, 12:11 AM by Rod Chong with 16 comment(s)

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This year is going by quickly isn't it? I've had the Superlap Battle on my travel calendar since the start of the year and it's always seemed like something far down the road... so I'm finding it somewhat hard to believe the event has come and gone, and now it's already time to move to our coverage of the Red Bull Drifting World Championship. But before we start to submerge ourselves in this upcoming Long Beach mega-event, we'll try and do our best to communicate to you what...
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Posted Oct 10 2008, 04:35 AM by Mike Garrett with 11 comment(s)

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The crew at Spoon Sports has been really busying getting their new NSX-R race car ready for next month's Macau Grand Prix. After first bringing the car out to the I Heart Honda!! event at Tsukuba Circuit last month, they continued their preparations by taking the NSX to Sportsland Sugo in Miyagi Prefecture yesterday for some testing. Yoshi at Spoon has been keeping me updated on the progress of the car and he sent me some photos taken yesterday during the testing session....
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Posted Jul 25 2008, 10:51 AM by Jeroen Willemsen with 26 comment(s)

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After his success with the Sun Auto's Cyber Evo, 'Tarzan' Yamada has commissioned Cusco to build him a new Time Attack car. This time it's different because now he will campaign this car as Team Tarzan, and he will drive the car himself in the various Time Attack series. Cusco has brought in heavyweights like Tomei and Voltex to help build the car......
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Posted Jul 17 2008, 11:50 AM by Jeroen Willemsen with 6 comment(s)

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Everybody has seen the crazy aero canards on the DTM cars especially in the rear. The only car that comes close in the Japanese Time Attack grid is this Cyber Evo driven by Tarzan Yamada. The canards are made by Voltex, they even test the durability and function in a windtunnel. So these aren't their for show but they actually work and help Tarzan to drive his car to the limit. -Jeroen Willemsen Voltex

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Posted Jul 03 2008, 01:45 PM by Andy Barnes with 4 comment(s)

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June was special, for the first time ever Time Attack legend Eiji 'Tarzan' Yamada visited the UK for the first time to check out Time Attack at Silverstone. I first met him at a Redline Time Attack event in 2006 and earlier this year I managed to get him to agree to visit the UK and check out the scene and cars as part of the Time Attack Series promo efforts. Mr Ito of Do-Luck is a good mate of Yamada so we managed to get him on a plane and over, not only that but we also managed to hook...
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Posted Jun 02 2008, 11:15 AM by Mike Garrett with 6 comment(s)

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The Zero Sports Impreza driven by Tarzan Yamada chases down a CMG Porsche during the 2006 Time Attack/Super Lap final at Buttonwillow. There's something so cool about watching Japanese tuner machines battle it out with Europe's finest sports cars. -Mike Garrett

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