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World Time Attack Challenge 2024
Sydney Motorsport Park was once again home to some of the fastest cars from all over Australia and the world, competing with themselves as much as each other, for that one perfect lap.
Year after year, the podium at the Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge is consistently stacked with winners powered by Emtron ECU’s. This year’s event was a particularly successful one, with five of the top spots across three classes, as well as the number 1 spot in the International Drift Challenge, all using Emtron ECU’s to get them across the line.
Emtron Pro Class
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Undeniably the team to watch for 5 years running now is RP968. They absolutely did not disappoint, proving themselves the unrivalled champions early on day one and smashing their own record again to take the win and reset the track record.
An Emtron KV8 ECU powers the RP968’s 4L inline-4, as well as the paddle shifted sequential gearbox. With Barton Mawer behind the wheel, the team went home with an astonishing time of 1.17.4440.
Plazmaman Pro Am
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Got It Rex’s Subaru STI, driven by Aleck Kazakovski battled it out against a highly competitive field to narrowly miss out on a podium, taking 4th place. With engine and sequential gearbox management being taken care of by an Emtron KV12 ECU, the Subaru managed a very quick 1:28.0170.
GCG Open Class
The top three spots in the GCG Open Class made for an exciting battle separated by milliseconds. It was impossible to tell who would take the win right down to the final Supercheap Auto Superlap Challenge.
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On the final attempt, the Dream Project S15, driven by Robert Nguyen, jumped ahead of the GAS Evo to take the win with an incredible time (and class record) of 1:25.5430. The S15’s SR20 engine and sequential gearbox are of course managed by an Emtron KV8 ECU. The team is utilising Emtron’s torque modelled traction control system 100% of the time to ensure the maximum amount of useable power is always put down through the rear tyres. In a class typically dominated by all-wheel drive cars, the result speaks for itself.
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Global Aircraft Services’ Mitsubishi Evo, which had only just taken the lead from the Xtreme GTR team, was finally nudged off the top spot by the Dream Project S15. Nathan Morcom steered the Evo to second place with a time of 1:25.8830. A time that was good enough to break the Open Class Lap record until it was broken again the very next lap by the Dream S15. Naturally, the 4G63 engine and its sequential paddle shifted gearbox, nitrous system, torque management and Active Centre Diff are controlled by an Emtron KV8 ECU.
Haltech Club Sprint
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For the second year in a row, the DC Jap Automotive Subaru STI, driven by Trent Grubel, held onto first place. With an Emtron KV8 ECU handling the engine and gearbox, the team reset their own class record with a 1:32.2340.
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Hot on the heels of the STI, was Plamaman’s Emtron KV8 managed Mitusbishi Evo, driven by Alex Michalsky. Only four hundredths of a second separated the two cars after the Plazmaman team put down a 1:32.2760, securing second place.
International Drift Challenge
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To put the icing on the cake of an amazing weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park, Saxon Moyles put on an incredible show, taking the win in the International Drift Challenge. His beautifully presented, JZ powered, Toyota GT86 is of course managed by an Emtron KV8 ECU.
A huge congratulations goes out to all the teams whose hard work and dedication paid off this year. We can’t wait to see what 2025 brings.