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CASE 1 The Yatabe High Speed Testing Course

I'm sure everyone has heard about the Yatabe top speed time trials which Option magazine and Option video have been covering for all these years. It was a challenge for a tuned vehicles to produce the highest top speed at the Japan Automobile Research Institute, (AKA Yatabe), in the Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.
Around 1980, the beginning of the modified car craze, the tuning movement shifted from drag racing to top speed racing.

Here, the tuners and the street racers began to run their cars on the famous Tomei Highway.
This was around the same time of the launch of Option magazine (1981 June issue).
The top speed runs provided the racers with more extreme thrills because the acceleration did not stop after reaching a quarter mile.

Car Spotlight>>daijiro Inada's Sr-powered Celica - Speedhunters

At the time, Japanese cars like the Nissan Fairlady Z30, Nissan Skyline Japan or DR30, Toyota Celica and imported cars like Porsche, Pantera, Pontiac Trams Am were popular modified vehicles. Even though racing From Datsun to Drift King: The Rise of Daijiro Inada and ... HALY