The fine weather greeted the opening round of the 2008 Super Taikyu series was held at Suzuka circuit. TEIN user’s were in the ST1 class #360 Nagashima/ Matsumura/ Tanaka trio in the Porsche 911GT3. In the ST3 class were #14 Asakura/ Yamazaki/ Furuya trio in the RX-7 FD3S, #15 Nagashima/ Igor/ Komatsu trio in the Fairlady Z Z33, #39 Iiri/ Akazame pair in the NSX NA2, the #113 Ihashi/ Tsutsumi/ Kimura trio in the Fairlady Z Z33, and the #81 Hashimoto/ Ueda/ Kitano trio in the Civic FD2. A total of 6 entrants participated in the opening round.

In the qualifying rounds held on April 26^th, the #360 qualified in 4^th position in ST1, the #39 qualified in 2^nd position with the #113 in 4^th, the #15 in 6^th in ST3. and the #81 car qualified 7^th in ST4. All in all, not as good as we all hoped, but everyone was setting their sights on race day. Race day was held on the following day, 27^th, and the fine weather continued. The surface temperatures rose as high as 42degrees. Though the mood before the start was a little heavy, the opening ceremonies for the 87 lap, 500km battle started. The #39 car in ST3 drove brilliantly to the top in his class on the opening lap, only to suffer from some trouble and drop down the order. The #15 car drove constantly throughout the race to get as high as overall 4^th position, on the 70^th lap, up another position to 3^rd. He managed to keep his cool and finish the 500km in 3^rd position.

In this opening round, the #360 car in ST1 and the #15 car in ST3 finished on the podium. All TEIN equipped cars finished their races respectively, and you could catch a glimpse of the quality of the TEIN equipped cars.

The next round will be held in Sendai Highland, next month in May, with high hopes for all the drivers.