SPEED HERO Blog — Tsukuba

So this story begins a few months ago.  I was biking home from work, when I decided to take the back streets home.  As I rounded the corner, I saw the familiar silhouette of a loved one.  It was a Levin hatchback.  Then I saw another.  Then I had to meet the owner of this magical place. As it turns out, he also has another AE86, a C3 Corvette, a Piaggio Ape, and a Formula SAE car tucked away on site.  His name is Komukai Ryou, and he's also one of my favourite...

Maybe we should start this year off by doing cool stuff. Thanks to Sean Nesbit loaning me a decent PC to use, I was able to whip up this idea that was stuck in my head. Tsukuba kids play mat! Now your toddlers can time attack!

So, I've been on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the early part of this summer. Trying to get my shit together and get my car going. Part of my time has been in the fantasy world. Going back to my Digital Roots, I've been playing a lot of Street Legal Redline Racing. Recently a Tsukuba Time Attack challange came up and I was more than willing to participate, and you can too! So how do you get involved? Well you don't really need a...

While at the Tsukuba Hyper Meeting Alexi let us know that he was leaving early to check out an RB meet at Nikko circuit. We were invited along and excitedly accepted of course. Tsukuba was a lot of fun but nothing prepared us for the overwhelming nature of Nikko. It's an unassuming track hidden away from the world and surrounded by the hills of what looks to be an old quarry site. You take a rough road off the highway and follow it through a single lane concrete tunnel, once through the tunnel you're met with screeching tires and the...