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Originally Posted by ichitaka05
False, in Japan, LFA was tested on Yamaha track. Why do you think they brought those car journalists to Fuji? Not because Toyota own it, cuz out of all the main land Japan Fuji is known to outsider more than Tsukuba.
Even BMI drivers stated many time that, Tsukuba's top speed, braking or lateral G's are lower than Fuji, resulting can't see the full potential for those super cars. Fuji is well known track in the world. That's why most of Lambo, Ferr, Pors & other super car race in BMI were/are done in Fuji (there are few exception, due to the costly).
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Umm... the whole point of the 'F' in LFA and the 'F' line of Lexus performance stuff, is that it means 'Fuji', after the Speedway not the mountain. They picked it because it's a Toyota track. They filmed that vid there for a reason too.
Again going back to my Lexus conspiracy theory about the need to tie in to F1. There is the the name. And the fact that Toyota really pulled VERY hard to get Fuji Speedway on the F1 circuit (GP of Japan alternating annually between Suzuka and Fuji), when it was more commonly known as a 'mere' sportscar track and Suzuka was the mighty F1 track. Suzuka is the most well known Japanese track outside of Japan, but that's Honda property.
Whatever the case, I would rather see tests done on any of those 3 tracks rather than the 'Ring, due to the driver's familiarity with the 'Ring having a more profound effect on lap-times than the car (assuming a reasonable degree of car performance closeness).
Personally I would pick Tsukuba out of convenience just because it's closer to Tokyo. It also seems to be Japan's 'Ring in terms of testing and comparing numbers, Super Lap Battle etc... And I doubt the LFA would have a 20 second lead over the SLS through 7-8 laps of Tsukuba (which would be close to the same overall times as the 'Ring I think).