The first weekend of the CarGuy SCR saw cars such as the Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo and GT3, Mercedes Benz SLS GT3, an Audi RS3 LMS customer race car, a pair of Toyota 86s, and a Porsche GT4 competing on the track.
Motorsports in Japan, generally speaking, caters more for entertainment than a big money-making machine. Super GT is a great example of this, teams don’t really make much by competing. Instead, it’s more to please their fans and put on an entertain show for the day.
In that sense, SCR is another example of entertaining motorsports. Given time to grow with more cars on the grid, it has potential to be as entertaining as other domestic race series. Who wouldn’t want to go watch a race where normal road cars with number plates are going head-to-head with full blown racing cars and track-only cars?
Last weekend’s race was only the beginning so there weren’t many competitors. However, the next round at Fuji in September is expected to have around 20 cars competing, including an Aston Martin Vulcan. That should be something to get everyone excited.
Takeuchi hopes to see more cars competing in SCR in the future. Regardless of racing cars, tuning cars, and commercial vehicles, SCR will still do “Heterogenous Martial Arts No.1 Decision Battle” to decide who is the fastest.
Fuji Speedway will still be the main stomping ground for SCR but may look at other circuits such as Suzuka in the future. Bring on September.
By Ken Saito