Super Lap


Super Lap is a time attack motorsport event. Super Lap events are being held in Australia and New Zealand.

Australia

The inaugural Superlap Australia event was held at the Oran Park Raceway in July 2008. It has since become an annual event attracting the fastest circuit cars in the country and even some overseas guests.
In Australia, Super Lap is divided into three classes: Club Sprint Class, Open Class and an invitational Pro Class
The requirements for each class are described on the Superlap Australia website.

New Zealand

In New Zealand, the first NZ Performance Car Super Lap was held in April 2007 at Taupo Motorsport Park. It was the first event of its kind held in New Zealand on a race circuit. Other time trial-style events have been road-based run by motoring clubs, such as rallying and bent sprints.
Super Lap is an event specially formulated as a total test of import street car performance, and is only open to JDM import cars. Originating in Japan—where such events are often called Tuner Battles because of competition between "tuning houses"—the style of racing has been adopted in the UK, US, and Australia.
In its New Zealand format, Super Lap is broken down into individual classes: Street Pro, Street Private and Unlimited class.
Street Pro consists of caged warranted, registered and certified cars. Street Private consists of uncaged, street-legal cars. The Unlimited class allows full competition cars—those not road-registered but race-ready—to compete. Unlimited class cars are not eligible to win Super Lap.
Competitors are timed over a single flying lap of the track in a qualifying format. Competitors start from the pit lane on its out-lap. When the car crosses the start-finish line for the first time, the timer is started. The timer is stopped when the start-finish line is crossed at the end of the flying lap, and the competitor performs and in-lap, returning to the pits. The fastest ten go into a top-10 shootout in the same format. The winner of this wins the event.
In 2016 the format slightly changed and the use of a full slick tyre was banned from use in the New Zealand superlap series and will continue forward using a d.o.t semi slick tyre like the z221s by Hankook or the A050 by Yokohama for e.g. this would now align New Zealand with the rest of the world in the time attack / super lap format and continue to grow alongside the rest of the globe.

Typical cars

Readily available high-performance Japanese imports are used such as:
Nissan Skyline GT-R,
Nissan Silvia,
Nissan Pulsar GTI-R,
Nissan 300ZX,
Nissan 350Z,
Nissan Laurel,
Subaru WRX,
Subaru Legacy,
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution,
Honda Integra,
Honda Civic,
Honda S2000,
Toyota Celica,
Toyota Supra,
Toyota Levin AE86,
Toyota Altezza,
Mazda RX-7,
Mazda 323,
Mazda RX-8.

Results

Superlap Australia 2009 Oran Park, GP Circuit

For a full list of results go to
See all the lap times and full listing at Natsoft

2008 Taupo (1 November)

This results table shows the fastest overall times of the day. Barry Manon, in third place, was the first non-Unlimited class car, and therefore claimed the Super Lap title for Taupo 2008. Defending champion Scott Kreyl retired with mechanical difficulties.
PosDriverVehicleTop 13 TimeShoot-Out TimeBest Time of Day
1Grant HohaiaToyota Corolla1:15.451:16.361:15.45
2Jonothan LesterToyota Supra1:16.42DNR1:16.42
3Barry ManonToyota Levin GT-Z AE921:16.971:16.931:16.93
4Ian CampbellMitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI1:17.101:17.381:17.10
5Dirk SchmidtMitsubishi Lancer Evolution II1:17.171:17.191:17.17
6Mark WaltersHonda Civic1:17.751:17.621:17.62
7Daynom TemplemanMazda RX-71:17.84DNR1:17.84
8Brendan SoleMazda RX-71:18.451:18.521:18.45
9Kenneth AuNissan Silvia/200SX S151:18.721:19.721:18.72
10Chris TrundleMazda RX-71:19.441:18.931:18.93

2008 Pukekohe (6 April)

Scott Kreyl in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII retained his Super Lap title.
PosDriverVehicleClassFastest Lap
1Scott KreylMitsubishi Lancer Evo VIIIStreet Pro1:02.03
2Garry SuttonNissan Skyline R33 GT-RStreet1:02.83
3Harry DodsonNissan Skyline R32 GT-RStreet Pro1:04.63
4Barry ManonToyota Levin GT-Z AE92Street1:04.80
5Grant HohaiaToyota Levin AE86Street Pro1:04.86
6Dirk SchmidtMitsubishi Lancer Evo IIStreet1:05.06
7Brent LoveMazda RX-7 FD3SStreet1:06.58
8Ian CampbellMitsubishi Lancer Evo VIStreet1:06.74
9Simon TurnerMitsubishi Lancer Evo IIIStreet Pro1:07.19
10Kenneth AuNissan Silvia S15Street1:07.23

2007 Taupo

PosCar #EntrantVehicleTimeClass
153Scott KreylMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:12.75Private
214Brent IngramToyota Starlet GT1:14.30Pro
347Dirk ScherbiusMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:14.60Private
441Ian CampbellMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:14.75Private
518Victor ChapmanNissan Silvia S131:14.78Pro
67Grant HohaiaToyota Levin1:15.57Pro
711Jason GillMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:15.63Pro
83Harry DodsonNissan Skyline1:16.71Pro
949Craig SilbyMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:16.94Private
1055Nick BowyerMitsubishi Lancer Evo1:17.55Private