Instead of piloting some sort of futuristic four-wheeled Podracer like in Formula One, drivers at Time Attack race cars that actually look like cars.

That’s where we were bitten by the Time Attack bug. Since 2010, each year the World Time Attack Challenge is held at Sydney Motorsports Park, Australia, where the fastest Time Attack teams from around the planet put their metal to the test on one piece of tarmac to see who is the fastest of them all. The technological leaps have been huge, and lap times have been tumbling. But the rate of development in the sport has been insane. Time Attack events began in Japan in the mid-1960s. Fastest lap over sessions from the weekend wins. Each car goes out for a warm-up lap, then starts its flyer from a flat-out rolling start and into a full-blooded banzai lap. Just think of it as a qualifying session. Don’t worry, it’s easy to get your head around as there’s no energy conversation or DRS zones to worry about here. Plus lots of crashes.Īs a starting point, let’s go through the formalities of a race.

And, as you can see, this leads to some truly innovative and wild-looking racers. It allows engineering solutions to be pushed to the very limit. Chasing time also adds a significant spice and competitive streak, especially when there are virtually no limiting factors or regulations for top-tier cars. You are either the fastest car on the day, or you’re not. Having nothing but the cruellest adversary of them all – the stopwatch – to compete against (a handy, reliable constant) filters out those pesky racing driver excuses. To define Time Attack in its simplest form, it’s a bunch of purpose-built cars lapping the same track against the clock to see who’s the fastest.

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