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Manhattan Racing enters a 2 car line-up for 2010

Newly formed Manhattan Racing announces 2 car entry into the much coveted “Time Attack” Series for 2010. The Manhattan Racing Team newly established for 2010 is the joint effort of 2 brothers Tony and Gary Campbell. In 2009 Tony scored a credible 2nd Place in the Championship in the under 3.0L normally aspirated class in his very well prepared Porsche 968 Club Sport. Manhattan Showers...read more

News : Time Attack Series now recognised by the MSA

Press Release - Monday 1st February 2010 MSA approves official recognition for Time Attack Series The Motor Sports Association has approved a proposal to bring the Time Attack Series under its auspices as the national governing body of UK motor sport – officially recognising this new type of event as an approved form of motor...read more

time attack at autosport 2010

Time Attack again showcased at the most prestigious motorsport show in Europe, the AutoSport Show at the Birmingham NEC in january 2010. The stand was staffed over the four days of the show by various members of the Time Attack team (that's Rob looking very happy indeed in the above pic) and were on hand to answer the many questions from competitors, sponsors, industry and general...read more

2010 Time Attack Series Calendar CONFIRMED

The 2010 season has already been confirmed and we are pleased to announce the 2010 concrete calendar as below. All dates are secured and further information relevant to each date will be added to the website here as soon as its available. Before Round 1 you will have the opportunity to see us in person at the Autosport Show at Birmingham's NEC in January where we will be exhibiting on our...read more

ROUND 5 REPORT (FINAL)

The same could be said of the Pro Class and the Club Pro Class too, and you can be sure that there will be teams aiming to stop RCM from making it three titles in a row. But as it stands, the RCM team made it a deserved two in a row and will no doubt to prove tough competition in 2010. A massive thank you to all the teams, drivers, supporters throughout the country who turned up to enjoy...read more

Acceleration Tests by 'Fast Ford Magazine'

Last month my friend (and regular TA competitor) Warren Kelly was going along to the Fast Ford magazine performance day at Bruntinghtorpe Proving ground so invited me to tag along. Bruntinghtorpe is an old WW2 airforce base and the runway provides a superb venue for testing not only acceleration times but also top speeds but for this day it was a straight acceleration tests. When we...read more

A Time Attack official caught moonlighting

A little while ago I visited the A1GP at Brands Hatch and stumbled across a friendly face involved in the technical aspects of the A1GP race cars, the friendly face in question was that of Mr. Marc Herridge, pictured on the left wearing blue gloves. Marc's role as head official for the Time Attack Series technical and scrutineering forms the largest part of what he does throughout his...read more

Fensport's GT4-X Celica Finishes 6th at Goodwood!

Time Attack Series regular Adrian Smith, boss of Toyota tuning guru's Fensport was one of the invited entrants at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, representing one of the five official entrants for Toyota. Adrian managed to come an extremely respectable 6th overall. Congratulations to Adrian and the guys at Fensport. We have plans to bring Time Attack cars into Goodwood for...read more

Team Zen Video - Brands Hatch 09

Here is a video produced by Team Zen which features their own exploits from Round 4 at Brands Hatch which took place on June 28th 2009, enjoy : - read more

A minute with Wesley Cox

You may not recognise his name, but Wes was a new 'One Hit Wonder' combatant in the Club Challenge at Brands Hatch. You don't always hear what these guys have to say about things, so what did the Supra driving 31 year old make of the experience? "It's good fun. The first time out was a bit intimidating but it got better and I enjoyed it even more the second time out," Wes told us. His Supra...read more

Brands - good stuff!

Just a quick well done and thanks to everyone who made it out to Brands whether to participate or watch Round 4, we had a great crowd and atmosphere with everyone playing their part in a great day. The full report details the event coverage and the winners, as does the vast galleries which are online courtesy of our fab snappers. I'd like to post a picture of the overall winner and...read more

Round 4 Report

Round 4 Report With just one more round to go of the 2009 Time Attack season, the Brands Hatch event was always going to prove crucial in helping to decide the championship. Olly Clark in the Roger Clark Motorsport Impreza now looks in pole position for the title, despite coming second in Round Four to the Lotus Elise of Steve Guglielmi. Worryingly for both Clark and the RSE Motorsport...read more

The Countdown to Sunday at Brands

Its nearly here.... Round 4 kicks of this Sunday at Brands Hatch, Thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets online and in advance, if you havent and missed them, you can still pay on the gate as usual! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Brands on Sunday! read more

Hi from the RSE Motorsport team

Well we are pretty impressed with the new site, looking great guys and a fantastic idea! We at RSE are currently flat out with the new modifications and getting ready for Brands Hatch which is coming up much quicker than we all imagined (where does the time go!) Due to this we've not really had a lot of time to be here using the blog! For those of you who don't know though, Time Attack...read more

A Minute with Matt Allison

At Round 3, Zen Performance called in the driving talents of Matt Allison to pilot their impressive Impreza. Matt has competed in the Clio Cup, Formula Ford and in the BTCC so he knows a bit about driving, but what did he think of the Time Attack experience? “I’ve always found qualifying extremely challenging, it’s where you get the best times,” he explains, “it’s a different...read more

First blog

Just thought i'd post up here to say how impressed i am with the new look site. Still beavering away with the car in readiness for Brands Hatch at the end of the month. A few changes to the rear suspension set-up which will help with the lap time i hope. In the meantime the car is being readied for the weekend where we are at Spa for Spa Italia. Time Attack will be getting some good European...read more

Rich Sams - How does he do it?

Rich Sams - one of our resident Time Attack snappers and all round hero when it comes to the point and squirt stuff, check out my favourite picture from his galleries at Silverstone which features our new 2009 pit girl Michelle....oh and the Roger Clark car :D I think they make a nice couple - which poses the questio - what is the RCM car, would we say a beautiful yet powerful woman or a...read more

Duncan Graham - Club Challenge - In car Vid

Posted by Team Race Dynamix - Driven by Duncan Graham, here is an insight into Duncan's laps from his inboard/outboard camera's at Silverstone on May 31st 2009 :- read more

Zen Performance In-Car Video - Silverstone

Time Attack Pro Class team Zen Performance have released a HD video of their final runs from Silverstone which can be seen below. For more information on the team please visit : www.zenperformance.co.uk or www.team-zen.co.uk read more

Meet the 2009 Time Attack Pit Girl

Great news for those who are unable to make it out to our events, we have now integrated the timing system we use at the tracks into our website. This function now means you can watch the live timings as they actually happen from your computer screen. As cars pass over the line on race day your screen will immediately show exactly whats going on - just as the team can see in the pits!...read more

Round 3 Report

The fast and furious pace expected by the 1.639mile long Silverstone circuit was firmly in attendance during Round 3 as Olly Clark stormed to his first win of the season with a record-smashing 57.989secs winning run. Clark pushed the Roger Clark Motorsport Impreza to the limit throughout the final, crossing the finish line with...read more

The Secrets of Buddy Clubs' Success

During Round Two of 2009’s Time Attack series at Knockhill, Paul Hughes in the Buddyclub Integra DC5 had a major problem. While qualifying a CV joint failed, resulting in his front offside wheel coming off. In these circumstances finding replacement parts to get the car fixed and back on track can be tricky and there was no way the team could get hold of a new CV bearing. So what did...read more

A minute with Fee Kindness..

After her small incident at Oulton Park, we figured it was time to catch up with the R32 Skyline driving Club Class competitor at Knockhill. How did you get on at Knockhill? Better than at Oulton Park…at least I didn’t crash this time! You had some guts to go back out in the car again later the same day. Ha, I didn’t have much of a choice to go out again…my husband made...read more

Duckworth calls in the troops..

Nissan S13 driver Kevin Duckworth was keen to say thanks to all the friends that had helped him get the car fixed ready for Knockhill. Damage sustained at Oulton Park looked equally damaging to his chances of making the trip to Scotland, yet somehow he managed it. “Friends have put in a lot of work… just roughly they’ve given about 138 hours of free time to help me get this fixed and...read more

Round 2 Report

It was another good day for the RSE Motorsport team as once again their Mitsubishi Evo VIII put in the fastest lap of the day to clinch maximum points in the Pro Class at Knockhill. Chris Ward who piloted the car to victory in Round One at Oulton Park was absent for the trip to Scotland, so the RSE team called in the services of...read more

2009 Round 1 Report

2009 Round 1 Report Time Attack burst into 2009 with all the pace and ferocity you would expect as the teams descended on Oulton Park for Round One. After rain early on the skies soon cleared over the Cheshire circuit and it shone most heavily on Chris Ward in the RSE Motorsport EVO VIII. Pulling out all the...read more

RaceDynamix team up with Zen for 09'

RaceDynamix announce Zen Performance Race Engineering Support Time Attack club challenge #6 competitor Duncan Graham is proud to announce that ZEN Performance will be commissioned to provide Race Engineer support for Time Attack 2009 series. Following on from the on-event support at the final round of Time Attack 2008 at Snetterton, Duncan feels that this is a crucial piece of the jigsaw...read more

Cosworth to supply F1 trophies for 09'

We are pleased to announce that 09' sponsor COSWORTH will be supplying all Time Attack Trophies for this years competitions. There is a twist though, this year we will not be awarding the 'normal' cup trophies out to podium winners, instead we have teamed up with Cosworth and they have agreed to produce one-off Formula One engine component trophies as a special run of world exclusive...read more

Lets get you started, there are many questions that need answers – what exactly is Time Attack? – How about a quick video from our 2008 Pro Class Champions, Roger Clark Motorsport which gives a brief insight into the amazing challenges and machines that are what make Time Attack simply spectacular – No rules, no limits, have as much power as you want and an open spec, with only one goal – how quick can you go? – The results? Quicker laps than BTCC cars and faster speeds that a GT car – and all from cars running on street legal Toyo Tyres….Enjoy….

So where did it all start, whats it all about?

Starting off in Japan, Time Attack, Super Lap and Tuner Battles were organised by the media as a proving ground to see the difference between street tuned cars, produced by the tuning industries most respected tuners.

Held at various circuits in Japan although mainly Tsukuba, Time Attack rose in popularity as the stakes began to rise and the tuners had to keep on developing new and improved machines with which to conquer their competition on track with. Since the early days things have moved on and there are now different levels of vehicles entering the competitions, from road cars to full-on specifically engineered Time Attack cars made mostly of carbon fibre as the sport has evolved. Its drivers normally consist of the racing industries finest, drafted-in by tuners to pilot these unlimited machines in the bid to become the quickest.

What happens first for the drivers?

Throughout the day there will be various sessions: Warm Up, Practice, Qualifying and the SuperBattle Final. These sessions are always open pit lane and can vary from 15 minutes to 20 minutes per session.

How does the Time Attack work?

After the Warm Up (untimed) and Practice sessions the main segments of the day are the Qualifying and the Final. Both Pro & Club Challenge Classes run the Qualifying format and the quickest of these drivers go forward to the Super Battle Finals where they get the chance to go for Series points and trophies. For the 2009 season points are also awarded for Qualifying.

How are they timed ?

Each vehicle will be fitted with a transponder device that works alongside the circuits internal system as used in normal motorsport. As the vehicle passes the beam the timing begins and runs until the car runs a full and complete lap, triggering off the timing beam to record a lap time in race control. Each vehicle will be allocated competition numbers to ensure that the correct times apply to each vehicle.

Is the Time Attack format the same as any other kind of Motorsport?

No, Time Attack has it’s own format that works for the competitors within it, the beauty of Time Attack is that it is aimed directly at the aftermarket tuning scene which has it’s own needs and requirements that do not fit other motorsport disciplines.

Can anyone enter the Series?

Yes, as long as you and your vehicle meets the rules and regulations, based on safety, type of vehicle, state of tune, professionalism, driver experience and commitment to the Series we are happy to consider your application, Please contact us for more information.