#Lexus RC F Track Edition

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The last weekend of SRO Motorsports America racing in 2024 receives a huge boost in star power as world-renowned actor Keanu Reeves will compete in this weekend’s Toyota Gazoo Racing GR Cup North America finale – his first motor race in over 14 years.

Reeves will drive the #92 Eagles Canyon Racing by Fast Track Toyota GR86 in a pair of sprint races on Saturday and Sunday, 5/6 October. The car will feature a red and black livery promoting his graphic novel, BRZRKR.

The Canadian actor is an avid enthusiast of motorsport. Reeves was the presenter of the four-part documentary Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story and has been a guest of honour in the paddocks of F1, MotoGP, and IndyCar throughout the years.

Reeves drove in the 2009 and 2010 editions of the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at Long Beach, winning the Celebrity class in 2009 and receiving a promotion to the Pro category the following year. That was the last time Reeves has run in an organised motor race.

Since then, Reeves has gone on to star in the John Wick series of action films, reprised his role as Neo in The Matrix Resurrections, and published the first chapter of BRZRKR in 2021 alongside co-writer Matt Kindt and illustrator Ron Garney.

Reeves is one of two celebrity drivers competing at Indianapolis this weekend, part of a 34-car field.

Eagles Canyon and Fast Track’s other celebrity driver is Cody Jones from the action sports and entertainment troupe Dude Perfect, which has over 60 million subscribers on YouTube.

Nicknamed “Tall Man”, the 6’6″ Jones’ sanctioned racing debut in the #29 GR86 was the prize for winning a go-kart racing challenge at this year’s Formula One Australian Grand Prix against three of his fellow troupe members.

Reeves and Jones will be pitted against a strong field of drivers young and old, including the newly-crowned GR Cup North America Champion Gresham Wagner.

Wagner, the driver of the #5 Copeland Motorsports GR86, clinched the series championship last round at Barber Motorsports Park. At the Brickyard, Wagner will look to add to his eight wins on the season – before heading to Road Atlanta to try and win the Mazda MX-5 Cup championship.

Second place in the championship is still up for grabs between Wagner’s team-mate, Westin Workman (another driver running dual GR Cup/MX-5 Cup campaigns) and Spike Kohlbecker of TechSport Racing. Workman enters the final weekend of the season six points ahead of Kohlbecker.

Jaxon Bell, the son of 2015 IMSA GTD Champion and 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Townsend Bell, is fourth in the championship.

Another guest driver of note is Miki Koyama from Japan, driving the #75 Hattori Motorsports GR86 in partnership with Japan’s all-female KYOJO Cup Series.

Koyama, the inaugural KYOJO Cup champion in 2017 and 2018, became the first woman to win the FIA Formula Regional Japanese Championship title in 2022 – and last week, driving a Lexus RC F GT3, she became the first woman to take overall victory in a Super Taikyu Series race since 1993.

Koyama is one of four women in the field, joining Mia Lovell, Jade Avedisian, and Maddie Aust. Lovell is the series’ top female driver  (10th in overall points and the top-ranked woman in nine out of 12 races) – and Avedisian, a Toyota-backed prospect of the open-wheel oval circuit, finished second in last weekend’s BC39 sprint car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway dirt track.

Saturday and Sunday, 5/6 October 2024

https://www.grcupseries.com/event/20/indianapolis-motor-speedway

https://www.grcupseries.com/watch-live

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this thing doesn't look that bad in red...

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Lexus RC F Track Edition, 2019. To be revealed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Components including a carbon-fibre front air dam, rear wing, roof and bonnet, 19-inch BBS lightweight alloys wheels, Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes and titanium exhaust system contribute to a 65kg weight loss, while revised suspension and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S rubber enhance grip and handling.

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Lexus RC F Track Edition: Official First Look ft. Vsauce2

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2019 Detroit Auto Show: The 2020 Lexus RC F Track Edition Loves Carbon-Fiber

The Lexus RC F Track Edition is the lightweight, track-focused, carbon-fiber-loving version of the 2020 RC F and no, it’s not starring in Men in Black International. Let’s get one thing out of the way first. The 2020 Lexus RC F isn’t the car from Men in Black: International. While Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth […] The post 2019 Detroit Auto Show: The 2020 Lexus RC F Track Edition Loves Carbon-Fiber appeared first on The Supercar Blog.

https://www.thesupercarblog.com/2020-lexus-rc-f-track-edition-carbon-fiber-detroit-auto-show/

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Can a track-honed Lexus finally vanquish the all-conquering Godzilla?

Hollywood has produced 30 Godzilla movies since the fire-spewing, jagged-jawed dinosaur first broke cover in 1954. Each one pits the armour-skinned Big G against some pesky mutant, all or most of which he/she/it – or these days, maybe, they? - dispatches in a bad-tempered maelstrom of spectacular violence and destruction. This year’s Godzilla movie, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is no different, the story and ending – spoiler alert – are neatly contained in that title.

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Lexus RC F Track Edition.

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2019 Lexus RC F Track Edition

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2020 Lexus RC F Track Edition

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020 Lexus RC F Track Edition Review – Say what you want about your wild style, but the Lexus RC F has a bigger problem: its weight. When we first tested this V-8 coupe at 2014, it weighed 4048 pounds, which decreased its performance compared to rivals such as the BMW M4, which is significantly lighter.

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Starring: Lexus RC F Track Edition

By Rich

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ミニチュアカーブランド "KYOSHO ORIGINAL" 【新製品情報】10月下旬発売 LEXUSが誇る2ドアクーペの中で“F”を冠するプレミアムスポーツ「RC F」をベースにBBS製軽量鍛造アルミホイールやカーボン製フロントスポイラー&リアウィング及び大型ロッカーフィン、更にチタン製エキゾーストマフラーを標準装備したスペシャルマシンです。 また、北米仕様のトラックエディションはエアロダイナミクス性能の向上と70kgの軽量化に加え最大出力は従来比5hpアップの472hpに引き上げられています。 1/43 Scale KYOSHO DIE-CAST MODEL SERIES 各7,480円(税込) レクサスRCF Performance Package No.KS03698GBK:(Graphite Black Glass Flake)RHD No.KS03698T:(Sonic Titanium)RHD No.KS03698W:(White Nova Glass Flake)RHD No.KS03699MG:レクサスRCF TRACK EDITION(Matt Grey)LHD 皆様のご来店を心よりお待ちしています。

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I finally drove a Lexus RC-F today, and it was even worse than I expected via /r/cars

I finally drove a Lexus RC-F today, and it was even worse than I expected

Disclaimers:

I'm a car journalist who's tested 200+ cars, so I have some reference points.

I have no anti-Lexus bias. I own a Lexus, just helped my stepmother buy a Lexus, and am press testing a UX250h this week, which IMO is the best luxury crossover value ever.

Now, onto this turd...

Things I liked:

It made me appreciate the LC more

Things I didn't:

First impressions: this is subjective, but the RC-F just looks... heavy. Not muscular like a BULLITT, not substantial like a Bentley Continental GT, just... overweight. Like a fat kid wearing Jordans.

Interior: the center console is a hideous waterfall of cheap, matte plastic. There's no flow or focal point; it's literally unpleasant to look at. Just look at the RC-F interior vs the UX interior; one is clean, simple, and elegant, and the other is a lost work of Salvador Dali. Well, at least the seats are comfortable.

Startup: The V8, the centerpiece of this car and really why you'd pony up an extra $24,000 over the base RC, sounds muted and hopelessly disappointing compared to the intoxicating, Aston-like bellow coming out of the LC.

Comfort: I had to ask the Lexus rep riding shotgun whether this car really had adaptive dampers, because my ass could barely tell the difference in ride quality between Comfort and Sport+. It goes from firm to barely firmer. By comparison, the adaptive dampers in the Hyundai Veloster N, which costs $35,000 less, have a much wider range in firmness settings.

Handling: Just ok. I didn't get a chance to slide it around like Clarkson, but I wouldn't want to; this car feels like it looks: heavy. It lumbers around corners and just feels like you're towing something.

Steering: very slightly above average for the Lexus fleet, but still grossly inadequate for a $70k muscle car.

Acceleration: maybe the most disappointing part of the whole driving experience. When you stamp your foot at any speed, the 8-speed transmission just falls flat on its ass and takes nearly a second just to choose a gear. This is a transmission designed for smoothness and comfort fitted to a 471hp V-8, and they get along about as well as Sonny and Cher. It's amazing how slow this car is (~4.5s) with 471hp. It's the same speed as a $43k Audi S3 sedan with half of the cylinders and nearly 200 fewer horsepower (and the S3 handles better, IMO).

Parting thoughts: This is a used LC 500 with 9,000 miles on it for $69k. It's a successful ultra-luxury GT car, whereas the RC-F is a failed muscle car. Now that they're the same price, I can't fathom why someone would rather drive the latter.

The RC-F is Lexus's Suicide Squad; an exciting concept with promise, bungled by awful execution in nearly every respect. That the $96,000 Track Edition weighs 402 pounds more than a base Supra (while being no faster to 60) is such a blatant indicator that Lexus needs to go back to the drawing board with their flagship muscle car.