Roughsmoke

17/06/2025

The Hazard Racing CL7 Accord (Euro R) at Central Circuit.

One my favorite CL7s that I get to see.

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02/06/2025

Fleeting moments are those of a prospective Kanjo runner in the current landscape.

I remember when Kentarou-San came into the parking area in the darkenss of the Osaka night, with the Rebull wrapped EK that had just been finished that same day.
Everyones eyes diverted from the other cars that had made it out to the meet.

I've had the pleasure of seeing this EK on the roads of Osaka and full send, waeving through the quite pockets of the Kansai countryside, and of course at various events.

But its time for him to hang up his gloves and the car was sold in auction on Saturday over in Hyogo and will now be shipped to its new owner in the USA to hopefully do it justice.

Enjoy it.

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24/05/2025

Even when I'm not looking for the Civics.. the Civics find me.

With being busy at the car auctions this year, mostly on the same days that the Honda One Make Series has been occuring, I sadly haven't been able to attend the events and thus has meant less coverage, so apologies in that respect guys..

Last night I was out for dinner in Osaka with friends and stopped for coffee on the way home quickly at one of the PA, and the Proper-Repair EG6 rolled past on a flatbed, on the way home of course from yesterdays run at Central Circuit.

Schedule wise, I'm hoping to hit up two of the races later this year as well as one of the FIT Clubman Races at Suzuka as well, so we'll have some action to report.

For the select few of you that know me as a person, I'm very much an introvert person, but I'll be trying to arrange some photoshoots for some cars over the coming months too.

Appreciate the support all.

Shimuzu.

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12/05/2025

The ARROWS GK5 Fit at Central.

Speaking of the Honda Fit chassis, of course if you've followed the page for a while you'll know the Civic class of the Suzuka Clubman Race finished last year with the staff not choosing to renew its schedule.
But a bunch of the guys have continued racing over in the FIT 1.5 Challenge class - And I think that may call for me to hit up Suzuka in the coming weeks to check out said race to see what goes down..

With rising costs of Civics in general and with less parts to go around its no wonder that some of the lads have delved into this little awesome compact racer.

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10/05/2025

The Pocari Sweat Liveried EG6 SiR by K's Factory at Central Circuit.

When dropping a bottle from Japans drink machines I must admit Aquarius is the drink of choice, but I'd have to give Pocari a second look after seeing Taishi-Sans EG parked up.

Have a great weekend all.

Shimuzu,
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07/05/2025

Shota's Temple Racing Civic AT at Central for the Central Time Attack event back in January.

A 01:39.242 best time secured on the day.
Surely with better conditions he'll be able to come back next time around an improve on that.

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06/04/2025

With F1 back at Suzuka this weekendm, Im missing being in the thick of the action in the pit lane at events, its been a while since ive been there.. Hopefully something on this years schedukle will let me get back there.

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30/03/2025

Another design done over on our One page

Plenty of designs going through the office these last few months... Lets Kanjo the world !

Here's a design done for Roketto Racing over in Austria.

Design: LOOP ONE

23/03/2025

https://youtu.be/V_het21aJ7Q?si=Uj1Nb3rHoR5a2dB6

10/03/2025

You can't go far wrong with a HKS livery....

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25/02/2025

The partnership between Ton-San, Tani-San and the ASLAN team, and this EG6 has conquered so many of its goals, its actually incredible to think how much they've managed to do.

For a time, such chassis as the Mitsubishi EVO and the Mazda RX7 were the kings of Time Attack here in Japan (and of course they still are up amongst the top talent) But in recent years we've seen an array of other chassis do geat things - this Civic included. It'll be strange to not see that specific collaboration on track in future events.

トンさん、タニさん、そしてASLANチームとのパートナーシップ、このEG6は多くの目標を達成してきました。その成果を考えると、彼らが成し遂げたことが本当に信じられません。

かつて、三菱EVOやマツダRX7のようなシャシーは、ここ日本のタイムアタックの王者でした（もちろん、現在もトップの才能の中に入っています）。しかし、近年では他のシャシーが素晴らしい成果を上げており、このシビックもその一つです。この特定のコラボレーションが今後のイベントで見られないのは、少し寂しいことですね。

Shimuzu,
Roughsmoke,
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