Two Australian GT-R’s have been battling for the track record at Eastern Creek International Raceway (home of the 2010 World Time Attack Challenge). Both running Aeromotions R2 Wings, Duncan Forrest and Marek Tomaszewski posted blistering fast lap times that were untouchable by other cars.

Back in February, the class 4D lap record at Eastern Creek was 1 min 42.41 sec. The old record had stood since 2005. In March Duncan said “As ever though, i had to find a way to up the ante for the 2010 season. That’s where the Aeromotions R2 wing comes in”. Duncan then added an Aeromotions R2 Dynamic Wing to his car and in March Duncan broke the 5 year old record at Eastern Creek by a massive 1.3 seconds, posting a lap time of 1 min 41.087 seconds.

On 16 May the series again visited Eastern Creek with Duncan bettering his March time by a further .89 sec, posting a 1:40.195. Marek posted a 1:42.80.

Today (8 August 2010) the R35’s visited Eastern Creek again for the latest round of the NSW Supersprint Series. Duncan posted a great time of 1:38.93 in the charcoal R35 (beating his 16 May time by 1.257 second). Not to be outdone, on his 6th timed lap of the day, Marek in the white R35 posted a lap of 1 minute 38.8263 seconds, bettering Duncan’s laptime set in May by 1.369 seconds to beat Duncan’s best time today by 0.1113 of a second.

To put this in perspective, Marek’s lap time today is a massive 3.59 seconds under the old February 4D Lap record that had stood since 2005, and 2.26 seconds under the record that Duncan set in March. Keep up the good work guys!

The Apex Kings GT-R has teamed up with Modified Magazine to chase down another victory at the Castrol Top Car Challenge. With two years of development, and a talented hotshoe, the Apex Kings GT-R is well positioned to take the win. Good luck to Darin and the G-Stig!

Rhys Millen came to Pikes Peak with a new vision for what an unlimited class car should look like. His integrated aero package looks more like a Daytona Prototype than the current record holding car of Tajima, or the legendary Celica piloted by his father. How is the aero working out? In a word, great. Rhys is onto something here, and he’s going to set the direction of unlimited class cars for a long time to come.

Day two saw the unlimited class cars testing on the upper third of the course. Rhys’ greatest challenge is the newness of his car. Tajima has years of development and wind tunnel testing in his Suzuki SX4. Millen has a new car and a new recipe to dial in. He also has one hell of a team, an impressive Hyundai motor, serious talent, and enough heart to will that car up the mountain. It’s going to be quite a race.

Back to the aero. Rhys has done an exceptional job keeping the aero clean and powerful. Every gap was minimized, every seam was sealed. All that remains is dialing in the right aero balance for the car. The powerful Aeromotions wing can produce enough downforce to lift the front end of the car. Striking the balance of rear grip without excessive front end lift is the goal of tomorrows aero tuning. Of course, Rhys will be focused on qualifying and showing Tajima what this new Hyundai will do.

The Forged Performance GT-R has proven to be quite a track weapon. Running a Dynamic Wing R2.TWO, this track prepped GT-R took on fully race prepped Viper ACR’s, Race Corvettes, and of plenty of Porsche’s. Needless to say, TTU class competition was tight. The near 100F temps and 50% humidity took it’s toll on the competitors but Forged managed to best out the competition with a 1:30 lap time 2 days in a row. Way to go guys!

You’re looking at the shakedown and testing of RMR’s newest Hyundai, the Genesis PM580. This unlimited class Pikes Peak race car will go for the holy grail of mountain climbing – a sub ten minute ascent to 14,000 ft. Keeping Rhys Millen’s rocket sled glued to the ground is a custom built Dynamic Wing by Aeromotions.

The wing is designed to provide maximum traction and grip in the turns. On the straights, it flattens out to dump the excess drag and give Rhys that little extra edge. The computer controlled wing monitors breaking, acceleration, and turning to determine the optimal position of the wing. Here’s a clip of the wing in action.

Rhys Millen has set forth an ambitious goal – Pikes Peak in “under 10:00″ – and he’s building a monster to get the job done. The 750HP Hyundai Genesis PM580 weighs a scant 1,850 lbs. A custom built, Aeromotions Dynamic Wing will keep this car glued to the ground in the corners, and reduce drag on the straights.

Rhys’s custom wing is based off the R2 Dynamic Wing. The high altitude of Pikes Peak, combined with the short duration of the race is letting Aeromotions push the wing harder than we’ve ever done before. The resulting system will automatically provide tremendous downforce in the corners – about twice what we’ve done in the past. This makes the reduction in drag for the straights dually important. We can’t wait for testing.

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Duncan Forrest was quick in his GT-R last season. The talented Australian won his local state sprint championship (outright) for 2009, smashing lap records at all local tracks along the way. For 2010, he wanted to “up the ante”. My kind of racer!

Duncan installed an Dynamic Wing R2.TWO on his R35, and currently runs the plug and play tune. Here’s the result of his first outing. “At Eastern Creek Sydney (NSW, Australia) for round two of the local time attack/sprint series, we managed to smash the 4D Class lap record by 1.3 seconds!! Securing first for outright points on the day also. I couldnt believe it. Awesome. The car just felt more stable everywhere. Even under drift situations the car feels more predictable and confidence inspiring.”

Way to go Duncan!

Forged had a really great weekend at Carolina Motorsports Park, in spite of the 6-8 inches of snow that fell on Friday night which made for a VERY exciting haul from Atlanta to Kershaw, SC. They arrived to the track on Saturday morning, to the sight of a half foot of snow over the entire track. Surprisingly, by noon, the snow melted and the track completely dried out.

By the end of the weekend, they set the fastest lap recorded at a NASA Time Trial event at CMP, with a hot lap of 1:36.8. This bested the previous record, held by a 996 TT, by over 3 seconds. The track was a handful to say the least and very green after all the snow. Grip was lacking, and the track was very inconsistent through the day.

Setup: Stock turbos, About 525whp (Dyno Dynamics), JRZ Triples, Hoosier A6’s (295/315), Aeromotions R2.Two Dynamic Wing