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January 24 was the HKS Premium Day at Fuji Speedway, and HKS invited us out to the event along with other businesses and all the HKS fans in Japan.
The Premium Day is an event where HKS rents out the entire circuit and has races with customer cars, HKS dealer demo cars, other company's race cars, and of course HKS's own fleet of heavily-tuned cars. Also, HKS and other friends of HKS had booths revealing new products and great demonstrations.
The theme this year seemed to be the domination of Central Japan. With HKS (Shizuoka), Esprit (Mie), Auto Select (Osaka), ATTKD (Nagano), Garage Defend (Aichi), Street Special (Aichi), Voltex (Mie), HKS Kansai (Nara) and other Tokai area shops dominating both the races, and the hearts of the fans.
The schedule consisted of 6 customer/shop car races, 2 Video Option races with a selection of cars from some of Japan's top tuning shops, a few races with HKS's top cars, and a the grand finale, an R35 battle with HKS, Garage Saurus, Street Special, Esprit and Garage Defend. Unfortunately the last R35 battle was cut short due to a snow storm starting, but they still gave fans a great taste of what to expect in the future!
This show was an absolute success, HKS not only put on a great performance, but they showed just how big their muscles are, and how deep their pockets go. With an incredible amount of HKS demo cars (including a fleet of R35s), parts demonstrations, HKS proved that they have not been affected negatively such as Trust and Apexi. Also, the HKS staff was amazing, there were HKS coats everywhere to help with questions and inquiries.
Also, HKS showed that even though they are in competition with other parts makers who were present, they can all have an event together, pat each other on the back, and strengthen the community as a whole.
A lot of companies we deal with were part of this event, and it was great to see them and talk to them about new parts and their plans for 2009.
Enough talking! On to the pics!
On the way to Fuji, Lake Hamanako, a mandatory rest stop...
with a mandatory rest picture
Mt. Fuji's head is now visible, almost there!
I had my R35 trailered in for the event
finally made it
lots of other Skylines were there as well
me again
getting prepped in the pits
Garage Saurus' R35
Jun's Evo
one of HKS's R35s
Street Special's R35
Auto Select's R34
Garage Defend's R33
ATTKD's R34 (sorry, I'm too short and those damn hoops always get in the pics)
Auto Select again
Bee R's Toyota Crown
The awesome Cyber Evo
Stillway Evo
fast Evo X
fast RX-7 (actually passed him on the highway on the way home)
side exhaust BNR32 (also very fast)
Pan Speed RX-7
Street Special R35 hiding in the paddock
ATTKD R34 with new wheels
R Magic RX-7
Yashio Factory S15
Esprit's beautiful NSX
ATTKD's paddock
Esprit's R35
Esprit's R35
Great looking BNR32, love the lip and side step rear flares
HKS Kansai's booth
the KTS crew
R35 with dry carbon hood
Mori BNR34
Bee-R Soarer
nice lip on this BNR too
Fellow's Evo
ATTKD Attackers R32
ATTKD Attackers R34
nice R34 (looks streetable, but it was trailered in and very fast)
Bros S2000
Widebody Supra (looks fast, but it wasn't)
someone clean that dirty ass!
Garage Saurus R32
Jun Impreza
Hakosuka (Garage Saurus's I think...)
Hmmm, gold Brembos were stock back then?!
front view. This car was fast and LOUD! Check out the video below.
An odd matching of Z33 front to a Skyline Coupe. It does not work.
Spoon's boys
big ass turbo in an FC3S
the HKS plane
look at that cute turbo, I could put it in my pocket. But seriously, that is all a plane needs to fly?
Ralliart's booth
HKS's Toyota Vellfire
HKS Evo
Guess who?
Esprit's cars
Camber anyone?
Auto Select's beater :-P
HKS Z34
more HKS R35s...how many did they buy?!
Who brought the Nismo van?!?!
Jun Evo
Taniguchi-san and HKS Korea!
The Premium Day is an event where HKS rents out the entire circuit and has races with customer cars, HKS dealer demo cars, other company's race cars, and of course HKS's own fleet of heavily-tuned cars. Also, HKS and other friends of HKS had booths revealing new products and great demonstrations.
The theme this year seemed to be the domination of Central Japan. With HKS (Shizuoka), Esprit (Mie), Auto Select (Osaka), ATTKD (Nagano), Garage Defend (Aichi), Street Special (Aichi), Voltex (Mie), HKS Kansai (Nara) and other Tokai area shops dominating both the races, and the hearts of the fans.
The schedule consisted of 6 customer/shop car races, 2 Video Option races with a selection of cars from some of Japan's top tuning shops, a few races with HKS's top cars, and a the grand finale, an R35 battle with HKS, Garage Saurus, Street Special, Esprit and Garage Defend. Unfortunately the last R35 battle was cut short due to a snow storm starting, but they still gave fans a great taste of what to expect in the future!
This show was an absolute success, HKS not only put on a great performance, but they showed just how big their muscles are, and how deep their pockets go. With an incredible amount of HKS demo cars (including a fleet of R35s), parts demonstrations, HKS proved that they have not been affected negatively such as Trust and Apexi. Also, the HKS staff was amazing, there were HKS coats everywhere to help with questions and inquiries.
Also, HKS showed that even though they are in competition with other parts makers who were present, they can all have an event together, pat each other on the back, and strengthen the community as a whole.
A lot of companies we deal with were part of this event, and it was great to see them and talk to them about new parts and their plans for 2009.
Enough talking! On to the pics!
On the way to Fuji, Lake Hamanako, a mandatory rest stop...
with a mandatory rest picture
Mt. Fuji's head is now visible, almost there!
I had my R35 trailered in for the event
finally made it
lots of other Skylines were there as well
me again
getting prepped in the pits
Garage Saurus' R35
Jun's Evo
one of HKS's R35s
Street Special's R35
Auto Select's R34
Garage Defend's R33
ATTKD's R34 (sorry, I'm too short and those damn hoops always get in the pics)
Auto Select again
Bee R's Toyota Crown
The awesome Cyber Evo
Stillway Evo
fast Evo X
fast RX-7 (actually passed him on the highway on the way home)
side exhaust BNR32 (also very fast)
Pan Speed RX-7
Street Special R35 hiding in the paddock
ATTKD R34 with new wheels
R Magic RX-7
Yashio Factory S15
Esprit's beautiful NSX
ATTKD's paddock
Esprit's R35
Esprit's R35
Great looking BNR32, love the lip and side step rear flares
HKS Kansai's booth
the KTS crew
R35 with dry carbon hood
Mori BNR34
Bee-R Soarer
nice lip on this BNR too
Fellow's Evo
ATTKD Attackers R32
ATTKD Attackers R34
nice R34 (looks streetable, but it was trailered in and very fast)
Bros S2000
Widebody Supra (looks fast, but it wasn't)
someone clean that dirty ass!
Garage Saurus R32
Jun Impreza
Hakosuka (Garage Saurus's I think...)
Hmmm, gold Brembos were stock back then?!
front view. This car was fast and LOUD! Check out the video below.
An odd matching of Z33 front to a Skyline Coupe. It does not work.
Spoon's boys
big ass turbo in an FC3S
the HKS plane
look at that cute turbo, I could put it in my pocket. But seriously, that is all a plane needs to fly?
Ralliart's booth
HKS's Toyota Vellfire
HKS Evo
Guess who?
Esprit's cars
Camber anyone?
Auto Select's beater :-P
HKS Z34
more HKS R35s...how many did they buy?!
Who brought the Nismo van?!?!
Jun Evo
Taniguchi-san and HKS Korea!
nice find daryl. i saw the vid when they did the orange one. didnt realize they made two.
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