Super Lap
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Super Lap is a time attack motorsport event held in New Zealand.
The inaugural NZ Performance Car Super Lap was held in April 2007 at Taupo Motorsport Park. It was the first event of its kind to be held in New Zealand on a race circuit. Other time trial-style events have been road-based run by motoring clubs, such as [rallying] and sprints.
Super Lap is an event specially formulated to be a total test of import street car performance and is only open to JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) import cars. Originating in Japan, where it is often called 'Tuner Battles' due to the involvement and competition betweeen tuning houses in Japan to achieve victory, the style of racing has been adopted in the UKCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)..
Super Lap is broken down into individual classes: Street Pro (PRO), Street Private (PVT) and a new Unlimited class (ULM).
Street Pro consists of caged warranted, registered and certified cars. Street Private consists of uncaged, street-legal cars. The new Unlimited class (introduced for Super Lap 2008 at Taupo Motorsport Park) allows those with full competition cars – those which are not road-registered yet are clearly up to a race-ready standard – to compete should they wish. Unlimited class cars are not eligible to win Super Lap.
Competitors are timed over a single flying lap of the track in a qualifying format. The fastest ten go into a top-10 shootout. The winner of this wins the event.
Typical cars
Readily available high performance Japanese imports are used such as:
- Nissan Skyline GT-R
- Nissan Silvia
- Nissan Pulsar GTI-R
- Nissan 300ZX
- Nissan 350Z
- Nissan Laurel
- Subaru WRX
- Subaru Legacy
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
- Honda Integra
- Honda Civic
- Honda S2000
- Toyota Celica
- Toyota Supra
- Toyota Levin AE86
- Toyota Altezza
- Mazda RX-7
- Mazda 323