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During its history the Toyota Supra has enjoyed considerable success in a variety of different motorsports. == Drag racing == The Supra has a history of professional drag racing, mainly in Japan and the United States. The HKS team have used both the Mk III and Mk IV to showcase its products, known as the ''HKS Drag Supra''. This Supra was driven by Charlie Goncalves Catanho. It was mainly built on a custom chassis with a carbon fiber body, the Mk III version housed a de-stroked 2.89-liter twin-turbo 7M-GTE, good for at over 9000 rpm, giving a best quarter mile time of 8.09 seconds. One of the first Pro Mod driver in import drag racing, Vinny Ten used a Supra to hold national records for drag racing in the United States between 1997 to 2000 as well as being the first in the US to build a Japanese engine without the need of nitrous or alcohol fuel. Ten also achieved the first for the Supra to break into the 12 to 8 second barriers as well as achieving a speed of over 120 to . Ten has since taken his Supra into the six second barrier. 〔(NHRA Sport Compact Drag Racing Team Profile: Vinny Ten )〕 Craig Paisley, another pioneer of sport compact drag racing, also used a nitrous-assisted Supra, his first sport compact, to compete in the same category. He achieved a best of 8.2-second e.t.s at more than and would switch to the factory supported Tacoma by 2002.〔(NDRA: Craig Paisley still has his sights on the 2004 NDRA Championship: )〕〔(Modified winner Paisley has big plans )〕 Paisley was also the first sport compact racer to receive factory sponsorship and support. Toyota became the first Japanese car company to ever get involved with drag racing. After years of competing in other cars, in 2002, HKS returned with the Mk IV version of the HKS Drag Supra, driven by Tetsuya "Dryhopp" Kawasaki, its 4.0 liter 1UZ-FE V-8, equipped with two prototype HKS GT3540 turbos, HKS rods and billet crank and stock valves, producing in total of . In 2003, the Supra was to compete in the NHRA Sport Compact Series, but the car became ineligible when the category it was to enter in, Pro V8, was axed at the beginning of the year, therefore it was permitted to perform demonstration runs throughout the season, where at a round at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, the Supra took the car's record time of 6.893 ET at , eclipsing its best in Japan of 7.277 posted at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway.〔 In 2002, at NHRA's Street Tire Class, the unibodied Titan Motorsport Supra of Mark Mazurowski broke the all-season record breaking dominance of Ari Yallon's Rotary Performance RX-7 to take the title and became the fastest uni-body Supra in the world with a time of 9.42 second and at Maple Grove Raceway, Pennsylvania, despite a quicker time at Houston Raceway Park of 9.002 at 160.40 which was unrecorded. The Supra won all but the first round, losing at a final to Yallon.〔(NHRASportCompact.com: Mark Mazurowski: 2002 NHRA Summit Street Tire champion, Phil Burgess )〕 With the cancellation of the Street Tire Class, Titan would move to the Pro RWD class with a 2JZ-GTE powered Celica The Supra was used by BF Goodrich to advertise its Drag Radials tires which it was equipped with. Many cars that appeared in the series would appear in the NDRA (NOPI Drag Racing Association) BF Goodrich Tires Pro Street Tire series. In the United Kingdom, Steve Whittaker used a Mk III built around a Pro style chassis to achieve a best of 8.207@169.89 mph.〔()〕 Sriyantha Weerasuria (SW) and Boost Logic were able to achieve a pass at The Texas Mile and a 7.91@189.9 quarter mile pass with the stock Getrag V160 transmission. Sriyantha Weerasuria also holds the record for fasted quarter mile in a manual transmission vehicle (which was done in a Supra). At TX2K10 (a national Supra meet that takes place annually in Texas), Boost Logic made a quarter-mile pass with their drag car with a time of 7.59@189 mph. The car was driven by Kean Wang. The record is now held by Ebrahim Kanoo of Bahrain with driver, Gary White. His 10.5 Supra (10.5" wide tire) ran 6.23@227 mph in the quarter mile. He also holds the Supra IRS (Independent Rear Suspension) record with his IRS Supra that ran 7.18@200 mph in the quarter mile. Both cars were built and tuned by Titan Motorsports. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toyota Supra in motorsport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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