Are you going over for World Time Attack?” is something we get asked a couple of months out before the event each and every year. The answer is simple, and always the same, “F#CK YES!” The Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge isn’t simply an incredible event — it’s the benchmark Japanese performance car and automotive performance scene festival of our time. A hop, skip, and a jump from Auckland, within a few hours you’re walking off a plane, jumping into an Uber, and stepping out to the Holy Grail of racing events. It’s a time attack festival that has grown into an absolute beast, with the world’s most famous and insane time attack cars, personalities, drift cars, show cars, and most importantly — lap times.
WTAC as a spectator event is two days long. As a racer, or photographer, the event is three days long — yeah, we luck out on that one for damn sure. The Thursday before the event kicks off on Friday is all about testing. Testing for the event crew, the race cars,likely to spin a yarn, while their crew members spin spanners — in the heat of the following race days, those conversations are harder to have. With entrants from North America, Japan, and Europe, drivers from all walks of life were in attendance.
