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Old 10-25-2017, 07:24 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by DSOmegaX View Post
Its tested there to optimize to what Tatsumi feels the car should behave in terms of steering, ride quality, suspension tuning, etc.
Yes I understand this, but it is a bit strange. They could do this kind of testing on a public road and under legal speeds, which I suppose they are doing already a lot. They have also private roads and a factory track that can do some testing on the limits. I don't understand what's the point to test a car on this particular track, where you need a very high speed car (and a good handling one, but not only good handling). Just think that they were testing a car in Germany, that never went out of Japan and never saw a speed of more than 180km/h because of the limiter. Unless, they were testing it for some other project and to collect data. Maybe for an endurance race event like 24h. Subaru never sent officially a BRZ in this event, but Toyota did. Maybe they were sharing resources, testing different settings or something else.
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