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Follow Igor Sushko's career as a racecar driver at the world stage. In 2006,
Igor raced in the first ever Nissan Skyline GT-R to compete in a professional
racing series in North America. In 2007, Igor competed in two series in Japan:
Super Taikyu with Nissan Fairlady Z and Formula Challenge Japan - a
high-downforce light-weight formula car. In 2008, Igor continued development in
the FCJ series and managed many podiums in Super Taikyu C-3 Nissan Fairlady Z
for H.I.S. Travel and Okabe Jidosha. In 2010, he was with Team Taisan in Porsche
911 GT3R in SUPER GT GT300 in Japan, securing a pole position at the Suzuka
Pokka round of SUPER GT. He was the architect of the technology innovation
platform with OGT! Racing #90 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in partnership with Freescale
Semiconductor in 2012. In 2013, the Freescale Racing program moved up to SUPER
GT with R35 NISSAN GT-R GT3.
イゴール・スシュコのレーシング・ドライバーとしての生活についてのウェブサイトです。2006年はイゴールはアメリカ初、日産スカイライン・GT-Rを権威のあるワールド・チャレンジ・GT・シリーズで参戦しました。2007年はS耐久・C-3・ニスモNissanフェアレディZとFormula
Challenge Japan（フォーミュラ・チャレンジ・ジャパン）のシリーズでレースしました。
2008年度はまたFCJでレースドライバーとしての上達をしながらスーパー耐久C-3でH.I.S.旅行と岡部自動車と共にNissan Zで多数の表彰台を掴みました。
2010年はSuper GT GT300でTeam Taisan Porsche 911 GT3Rでレースしました。 2012年はOGT!
Racing #90よりポルシェ・カレラ・カップでフリースケール・セミコンダクタと共に次世代技術開発に取り組み, 2013年はSUPER GTにて日産GT-R
GT3でFreescale Racingとして技術開発を続きました。 応援よろしくお願いします！

SUNDAY, MARCH 06, 2022

TRANSLATION OF THE ALLEGED ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN RUSSIA BY AN
ACTIVE FSB ANALYST

My translation of the analysis of the current situation in Russia by an alleged
active FSB analyst. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far
& wide. The full text is over 2000 words. This is a highly insightful look
behind the curtain - covers many subjects. I will add clarification comments
inside parenthesis where necessary. So, let's roll:

I have hardly slept at all these days, at work at almost all times, I have
brain-fog. Maybe from overworking, but I feel like I am in a surreal world.

The Pandora’s Box is open – a real global horror will begin by the summer –
global famine is inevitable. Russia and Ukraine were the main suppliers of grain
to the world. This year’s harvest will be smaller and logistical problems will
result in a catastrophe. (MY COMMENTARY: I disagree that this will result in
global famine.)

I can’t say what guided those in charge to decide to proceed with the execution
of this operation, but now they are methodically blaming us (FSB). We are being
scolded for our analysis. Recently, we have been increasingly pressured to
prepare more reports. All of these political consultants and politicians and
that powers-that-be are causing chaos. Most importantly, no one knew that there
will be such a war – it was concealed from everyone. For example – you are being
asked to analyze various outcomes and consequences of a meteorite attack (MY
COMMENTARY: Here he most likely means the West’s sanctions) – you research the
mode of attack, and you are being told that it’s just a hypothetical and not to
stress on the details, so you understand the report is only intended as a
checkbox, and the conclusions of the analysis must be positive for Russia,
otherwise you basically get interrogated for not doing good work. So, you have
to write that we have all necessary measures available to nullify the effects of
a given type of attack. We are completely overworked. But then it turns out that
the hypothetical has turned into reality, and the analysis we’ve done on that
hypothetical is total trash.

We have no answer to the sanctions because of this.

No one knew there’d be such a war, so no one prepared for these sanctions.

It’s the flipside of the secrecy – since everyone was kept in the dark, how
could we prepare for it?

Kadyrov has gone nuts. We were very close to a conflict with him because the
Ukrainians through their disinformation about having received intel from the FSB
on his squad in Kyiv. His squad was absolutely demolished before they even began
to fight and they got blown to pieces. I do not have any info that it was an FSB
leak to Ukraine, so I’d give it a 1-2% chance – but can’t exclude this
possibility completely.

Our Blitzkrieg has totally collapsed. It is impossible to complete the task: If
Zelensky and his deputies were captured in the first 3 days, all key buildings
also captured, and they were forced to read an address of their surrender to the
country, then Ukraine’s resistance would have likely dissolved to a minimal
level. Theoretically. But then what? Even in this IDEAL outcome, there remained
an unsolvable problem: Who is the counterparty to our negotiations? If we remove
Zelensky – fine – who is going to sign the agreement? If with Zelensky, then
that agreement is worthless after we remove him.

ОПЗЖ (The Opposition Party in Ukraine collaborating with Russia) has refused to
cooperate. Medvechuk, the coward, ran away. There is another leader – Boyko, but
he refused too, even his own people won’t understand him. Wanted to bring back
Tsaryova, but even our guys are against him here in Russia. Bring back
Yanukovich? But how? If we are saying we can’t occupy, then the newly formed
government will be overthrown in 10 minutes as soon as we leave.

To occupy? Where would we find that many people? Commandant’s office, military
police, counter-intelligence, security – even at minimum resistance from the
Ukrainians, we’d need over 500,000 people, not including supply & logistics.
There’s a rule, if you try to cover for bad quality leadership with quantity,
you’ll make everything worse. And I repeat this would be the problem in the
IDEAL SCENARIO, which does not exist.

And what now? We cannot announce general mobilization for two reasons: 1)
Mobilization will implode the situation inside Russia: political, economic, and
social.

2) Our logistics are already over-extended today. We can send a much large
contingent into Ukraine, and what would we get? Ukraine – a territorially
enormous country, and their hate towards us is astronomical. Our roads simply
cannot accommodate the resupply of such convoys, and everything will come to a
halt. And we can’t pull it off from the management side because of the current
chaos.

These two reasons exist concurrently, although just one of them is enough to
break everything.

With regards to Russian military losses: I don’t know the reality – no one does.
There was some information the first 2 days, but now no one knows what is
happening in Ukraine. We’ve lost contact with major divisions (!!) They may
re-establish contact, or may dissipate under an attack, and even the commanders
don’t know how many are dead, injured, or captured. Total dead is definitely in
the thousands, maybe 10,000, maybe 5,000, or maybe just 2,000. But even at our
command no one knows. But probably closer to 10,000. And we are not counting
losses at DNR & LNR.

Now even we kill Zelensky or take him prisoner, nothing will change. The level
of hate toward us is similar to Chechnya. And now, even those loyal to us in
Ukraine are publicly against us.

Because all of this was planned at the top (in Russia), because we were told
that such a scenario will not happen except only if we were to be attacked
first. Because we were told that we need to maximize our threats in order to
negotiate an outcome through peace. Because we were already preparing protests
against Zelensky without ever considering invading Ukraine.

Now, civilian losses in Ukraine will follow a geometric pattern progression, and
resistance against us will only get stronger. Infantries already tried to enter
cities – out of 20 paratrooper groups, only one had “provisional” success.
Recall the invasion of Mosul – it’s a rule – happens with every country, nothing
new.

To hold a siege? Over the last decades in Europe – Serbia being the best
example, cities can remain functional under siege for years.

Humanitarian convoys from Europe to Ukraine is only a matter of time.

Our conditional deadline is June. Conditional because in June there will be no
economy left in Russia – there will be nothing left. By and large, next week
there will be a collapse (in Russia) to either of the two sides, simply because
the situation cannot remain under current conditions.

We have no analyses, we can’t make any forecasts in this chaos, no one will be
able to say anything with any certainty (in Russia).

To act through intuition, especially with high emotions, this is no poker game.
But our bets will have to grow in size with hope that some option will succeed.

The tragedy is that we can easily miscalculate, and as a result lose everything.

By and large, Russia does not have an out. There are no options for a possible
victory, only of losses – this is it.

100% we’ve repeated our mistake from last century, when we decided to kick the
“weak” Japan in order to achieve a quick victory, and it turned our army was in
a state of total calamity. Then, we started a war till the victorious end, then
we started conscripting the Bolsheviks for re-education in the army. Then these
barely-known Bolsheviks picked up their anti-war slogans.

From the pluses: We did everything to ensure there wasn’t even a hint that we
sent penal military units to the front. If you conscript political prisoners and
the socially undesirables, the moral spirit of the army will be in the negative.

The enemy is motivated. Monstrously motivated. Knows how to fight, plenty of
capable commanders. They have weapons and support. We will simply establish a
precedent of human catastrophe in the world.

What we are afraid of the most: The top is trying to mask old problems with new
problems. Largely for this reason Donbass happened in 2014 – We needed to
distract the West from the Russian Spring in Crimea, so Donbass’ so-called
crisis had to pull in all of the attention and become a bargaining chip. But
even bigger problems started there. Then we decided to pressure Erdogan to get 4
pipes for the Southern Stream (gas) and entered Syria. This is after Suleimani
(Islamic Revolutionary Guard) knowingly provided false info to us to solve his
own problems.

As a result, we couldn’t resolve the problem with Crimea, and Donbass’ problems
didn’t go away. Southern Stream was reduced to 2 pipes (gas), and Syria is
hanging – we leave and Assad will be toppled and we will look like idiots, and
staying there is hard and pointless.

I don’t know who come up with the “Blitzkrieg of Ukraine.” Had received all the
real inputs, we would have at minimum pointed out that the initial plan is
arguable, and that much has to be reassessed. A lot had to be reassessed.

Now we are in crap (PG language mine) up to our necks, and we don’t know what to
do. “Denazification” and “demilitarization” are not analytical categories
because they don’t have concretely formulated parameters by which meeting of the
objectives can be evaluated.

Now we are stuck waiting until some mentally screwed up advisor convinces the
top to start a conflict with Europe, with demands to reduce the sanctions – they
either loosen the sanctions or war. What if the West refuses? In that instance I
won’t exclude that we will be pulled into a real international conflict, just
like Hitler in 1939. Our “Z” will be equated to the Swastika.

Is there a possibility of a localized nuclear strike? Yes. Not for any military
objectives. Such a weapon won’t help with the breach of the defenses. But with a
goal of scaring everyone else (The West).

We are plowing to create a scenario in which to blame everything on Ukraine.
Naryshkin (Director of Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia) and his SVR is
digging the ground to prove that Ukraine was secretly building nuclear weapons.
F*&K. They are hammering at what we’ve already analyzed and closed the book on:
We can’t just make up any evidence or proof and existence of specialists and
Uranium. Ukraine has a ton of depleted isotope 238 – this is nothing. The
production cycle is such that you can’t do it in secret.

A dirty bomb can’t be created in secret. Ukraine’s old nuclear power plants can
only produce the material as a by-product in minimal amounts. The Americans have
such monitoring at these plants with MAGATE that even talking about this is
stupid.

Do you know what will start in a week? Let’s let it be even in 2 weeks. We are
going to be so screwed we will start reminiscing about the good ol’ hungry days
of the 90s. As the markets are being closed, Nabiullina appears to be taking the
right steps, but it’s like plugging holes on a ship with your fingers. The
situation will break through anyway and even stronger. Nothing will be solved in
3 or 5 or 7 days any longer.

Kadyrov is kicking his hoofs not without reason. They have their own adventures.
He created a name for himself as the invincible – and if he falls down once his
own people will remove him.

Next. Syria. “Guys – hold on, everything will end in Ukraine and then we will
fortify our positions in Syria.” And now at any moment our contingent stationed
there may run out of resources, and then ridiculous heat will come…. Turkey is
closing the strait, and sending supplies to Syria by air is the same as heating
an oven with cash. Please notice – this is all happening at the same time, and
we don’t even have time to throw it all in one pile for analysis.

Our current position is like Germany in 1943-1944 – but that’s our STARTING
position in Ukraine.

Sometimes I get lost in this overwork, sometimes feels as if this is just a
dream and all is as it was before.

With regards to prisons – it will be worse. The nuts will start to get tightened
till blood. Everywhere. To be frank, purely technically, this is the only way to
maintain any control of the situation. We are already in total mobilization
mode. But we can’t remain in this mode for long, but our timetables are unknown,
and it will only get worse. Governance always goes astray from mobilization. And
just imagine: You can sprint 100m – but try that in a marathon.

And so, with the Ukrainian question we lunged as if going for a 100m sprint, but
turned out we’d signed up for a marathon.

And this is a rather brief overview of the current events.

To offer further cynicism, I don’t believe that Putin will press the red button
to destroy the entire world.

First, it’s not one person that decides, and someone will refuse. There are lots
of people there and there is no single “red” button.

Second, there are certain doubts that it actually functions properly. Experience
shows that the more transparent the control procedures, the easier it is to
identify problems. And where it’s mirky as to who controls what and how, but
always reports full of bravado, is where there are always problems.

I am not sure that the “red button” system functions according to the declared
data. Besides, plutonium fuel must be changed every 10 years.

Third, and this is the most disgusting and sad, I personally do not believe in
Putin’s will to sacrifice himself when he does not even allow his closest
ministers and advisors to be in his vicinity. Whether it’s due to his fear of
COVID or a possible assassination is irrelevant. If you are scared for the most
trusted people to be near you, then how could you possibly choose to destroy
yourself and those dearest to you.

END OF TRANSLATION

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015

2013 SUPER GT NISSAN GT-R GT3 - FREESCALE RACING PROGRAM IN JAPAN

We kicked off the year with the Car Electronics show in January with our
race-winning 2012 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car.

After a hugely successful 2012 which yielded Freescale Japan an incredible ROI
in direct new business of selling cold, hard, real microchips and sensors, we
elevated the program to SUPER GT GT300 for 2013.

Here's a quick overview of the OGT! Racing program.

Our sponsor-base increased - Freescale, Marubun, Avnet EM, Toyotsu Electronics,
and Tokyo Electron Device and we alternated the main sponsor branded between all
of our sponsors on a per-race basis based on race location and sponsor customer
bases geographically.

Partnering with apr Racing Team, we became the first team in Japanese GT history
to field both a Nissan and a Toyota, as our sister car became the Toyota Prius
Hybrid - an interesting racecar with a body of a Prius powered by what is
essentially an IndyCar engine in the middle of the chassis.

The SUPER GT GT300 Toyota Prius GT Hybrid and Nissan GT-R GT3 NISMO from the
top.

We expanded on all fronts, including a series sponsorship of the SUPER GT racing
series itself.

In September, for the Asian Le Mans series round, Freescale held a Technology
Event with thousands in attendance: http://supergt.net/news/single/14497

VIP Hospitality

Our hospitality, which could hold up to 80 people per day in 2012, was expanded
to accommodate over 120 people per day.

As a result, we hosted nearly 1,100 people and over 700 Freescale customers over
the year. Executives from companies like Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Keihin, Denso,
Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC, Alps, Panasonic were a common sight.

Research and Development

The video is in Japanese but is relatively self-explanatory. The end-result near
the end of the video is pretty interesting.

The active safety R&D program that we initiated in 2012 became the benchmark for
direction for our competition, as became clear in the trade shows in subsequent
years.

In 2012 Car Electronics Show in Tokyo, Freescale Japan was the only company in
the space promoting its active safety-focused R&D program in our race car.
In 2013, I noticed a few other competitors showing similar technologies on small
RC cars and such.

In the 2014 show, nearly every single microchip company on the floor had taken
the theme we developed!

Racing

Here's an onboard video from the Suzuka test with our Freescale OGT! Racing #30
NISSAN GT-R GT3 NISMO car:

Media

The media coverage also grew with the R&D program getting picked up in over 20
newspaper articles and hundreds of locations online.

Our press conferences were always packed:

The mega Designing with Freescale event we hosted during the Asian Le Mans
series race at Fuji Speedway was fantastic - pairing motorsports, R&D, and
freescale seminars for our customer engineers, with tons of activities for the
entire family to enjoy.

The Corporate Holiday Greeting video for Freescale Korea & Japan

The OGT! Racing (One Great Team!) facebook page has all the content that was
continuously updated throughout the 2 years of the program. I really recommend
you check it out - many more photos, videos, and overall
information: https://www.facebook.com/ogtracing

posted by Igor Sushko @ 6:00 PM 0 comments

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014

2012 YEAR IN REVIEW – PORSCHE CARRERA CUP JAPAN

2012 Year in Review – Porsche Carrera Cup Japan

'12 New Year's corporate post card that preceded our 2012 season

2012 was the first year of the Freescale Racing program in Japan. It got off to
a rocket start with a win in our inaugural race in Okayama.

Through the 2012 season, we hosted over 500 people in our exclusive VIP
Hospitality, hosted the first-ever Freescale One Make Festival at Fuji Speedway
that combined the traditional embedded processing trade show format with racing,
and racked up a total of 5 podiums.

As program manager for the entire project, it was sometimes a challenge to keep
everything at its optimum. My role included the creation of R&D program
direction, hospitality structure and oversight, PR/marketing, and of course all
things that need ironing out for the actual racing. Securing hundreds of
thousands of dollars in sponsorship from the beneficiaries of the program was a
task that necessitated me to build trust and confidence in me by our partners –
Freescale, Toyotsu Electronics, Avnet Electronics Marketing, and Tokyo Electron
Device. Navigating the maze that is a multi-billion dollar corporation and its
politics was also something new.

Check out this video covering the Freescale One Make Festival.

We always ran the program as a business, and I created a methodology that
tracked the ROI for our sponsors, who were all Freescale Japan distributors,
which can be summed up as follows:

Evaluation of the racing program effect on new business that is won by Freescale
or its distributors : Distributor sales and Freescale sales evaluate each deal
on a scale of 0-10 with granular explanation of each number, which then equates
to the percentage of the deal the racing program gets credit for a given deal.

If Mitsubishi Electric were to have 25 of its employees from management,
procurement, and engineering present at a few races back to back in our VIP
hospitality, and new RFPs/RFQs were provided in a timely fashion at or after the
events to Freescale, then the sales guys from both Freescale Japan and the
assigned Freescale Japan distributor responsible for this customer provide their
detailed feedback and evaluation of the effect the racing program.

The effect of the program was vast. There were many components to it: our R&D,
our hospitality, the sheer excitement and camaraderie that racing creates, and
the overall Freescale brand trust and elevation via PR and marketing.

The main changes at Freescale Japan between 2010 and 2012 is the Freescale
Racing program and a revamp of the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) event.
Note that I was also the Program Manager for the 2011 Freescale Technology Forum
(FTF) Japan.
We grew the event 4 times in space, 4 times in number of customers, and spent
less money than the previous year as a result of hundreds of thousands in
sponsorship revenue I secured from Freescale's eco-system partners.

A little bit of business background. Freescale Semiconductor, based in Austin,
TX, is a $5B public corporation, and holds a huge market share in automotive
chips and sensors worldwide. It’s main competitor, especially in Japan, is
Renesas.

The issue regionally is that Renesas has tens of thousands of employees in its
home-base – Japan, and its sales force is thousands strong. Freescale Japan’s
easiest route to growth is to siphon away Renesas’ market share, since Renesas’
sales in the space of competition with Freescale may be 20x of Freescale Japan’s
total revenue. Meanwhile, Freescale Japan’s sales force, even if you add in all
of the distributors sales force on the Freescale account, is a couple of
hundred.

Reminds of the movie “300.” This is where the racing program strategy came in.
With a racing program, we accomplished the following:

1. Unique positioning of Freescale Japan as the innovator in the Japan
market. The only microchip company with a race team conducting active-safety R&D
and thus showcasing the engineering know-how and its portfolio of products –
spanning the networking, automotive, industrial, and consumer segments.

2. Psychology: Racing is competition to the extreme. By hosting hundreds
of decision-makers from our customers, we create our own team that INCLUDES the
customers. This team is full of passion and excitement, with everyone rooting
for the same thing.

3. Facilitation of direct and friendly relationship with customer
management base. Instead of trying to sell from the bottom at the customers, we
sell directly to the decision-makers and management, who are now not only on our
side logically, but also emotionally.

4. Significant POSITIVE media exposure: Prior to this program, Freescale
would have a handful of journalists show up for a press conference. We hosted
multiple press conferences centering on the Freescale Racing program and the
room was packed every time. Consider what journalist whose job it is to cover
the embedded microchip marketplace who would not want to go to a press event
about RACING! On top of that, the race car is packed with Freescale technology,
and we are doing something no other competitor is doing!

5. The camaraderie that was created between Freescale and its distributors
was immense. Spending weekend after weekend together, in a positive and
energetic environment. That is such huge motivation for people whose jobs are
usually to be at the desk or visiting customers for endless meetings that would
want to make you tear your hair out.

What did all of this mean to the success of the program?

Freescale received roughly $55 million dollars of product commitments which will
flip to revenue over the subsequent 5 years or so as a DIRECT measured result in
2012. The expanded value of new business that the program "affected" was in the
hundreds of millions of dollars. The sales cycle, especially in the automotive
segment, is rather long, and can take up to 5 years from winning the design to
going to production.

At the season finale at Motegi, I was asked by Hitotsuyama Racing to also race
in the Audi R8 GT3 during the same weekend in SUPER GT GT300, resulting in a lot
of jumping back and forth between the Porsche and the Audi. In the following
Fuji Sprint Race for SUPER GT, I secured the first and only points position in
that car for the team for the season.

Stay tuned for the update covering the 2nd year (2013) of the Freescale Racing
program in Japan!

posted by Igor Sushko @ 3:26 PM 0 comments

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

R&D PROGRESS AND THE DRAMATIC REALITY OF RACING

As I reflect on the last few races in the 2012 Porsche Carrera Cup Japan with
the #90 OGT! Racing Porsche 911, I cannot help but think that you can't make
this stuff up if you tried as a work of fiction!

Round 3 - May 3rd / 4th - Fuji Speedway
Total Attendance: 83,000 spectators

Round 3 of the series took place alongside SUPER GT in May at Fuji Speedway. We
arrived to the track after a win in the season opener followed by a strong 3rd
place finish in round 2. Great momentum and excitement throughout our
organization and good progress on the R&D side of this project with Freescale
made it an excellent start to this long-planned-for program.

Practice sessions on test day prior to the qualifying day were decent, but again
in the rain. After a tactical mistake in opting not to use 2 sets of new tires
in qualifying as the track conditions improved considerably near the end of the
session, as most other teams had done, prevented us from improving on our time
set early in the session. This resulted in qualifying in 4th position for the
race.

This was the first event for which we mounted Freescale's next-generation
360-degree surround view digital camera system. It consists of 4 cameras, each
capturing over 90 degrees around the car in each direction. The system runs on
Freescale's i.MX6 chip and Denso cameras.

The ruggedness of the system, which we first tested several days prior to the
race weekend, was fantastic. It is completely immune to the severe vibrations
which are natural to the motorsports environment. Another potential issue was
the interference of many other electronics onboard the car, which can always
present issues that are oftentimes best described as "gremlins," and make the
best engineers scratch their heads in defeat. None of that with this system.
Even in pouring rain, the system proved impeccable.

Unlike the poor weather on the previous day, race day welcomed us with beautiful
sunshine. Just as in Okayama, we had over 50 Freescale eco-system attendees on
each day coming to support our team and to learn about the R&D program.

To cut to the chase on the racing front - we had a good start from 4th place and
quickly passed the 3rd place car going into turn "B" chicane. But then, my error
caused the below incident, which fortunately did not damage the car. It took
time to get back to the track and we had to pit for a new set of tires,
effectively ending our contention for any kind of position.

Usually, this kind of accident is caused by some amount of steering input to
unbalance the car, which in a Porsche is immediately punished by the rear
floating up and to the side, since the heavy engine is in the back. In this case
though, you can see that steering was not the issue, but rather a loss of sight
of the correct braking point by me, which resulted in a natural instinct to
apply stronger pressure to the brake pedal, and not visible in the video, but
the telemetry data showed that rear tires were on the very edge of adhesion as
they rotated at around 150km/h and decreasing while the car was traveling at a
much greater speed. Being able to maintain this on the edge would in fact result
in maximum braking, but as I downshifted the rear immediately stepped out. This
was possibly caused by some centrifugal forces within the drivetrain.
Essentially, in theory, the car was so much on the edge with all the traction
being used to stop the car, just a small application of force, like a finger
poking at the side of the car, would have probably unsettled the car enough to
take it into the spin.

PCCJ's aggressive points structure - 20 points for 1st, 18 points for 2nd, 16
points for 3rd, made this an extremely costly mistake for our team and wiped out
my lead over the next place car in championship contention, which was something
like 14 points going into round 3.

Round 4/5 - June 9th/10th - Freescsale One Make Festival at Fuji Speedway

Freescale became the title sponsor of the annual One Make Festival held at Fuji
Speedway. This is an event with a variety of one-make series racing over the
weekend, including the Porsche Carrera Cup. Some others series included small
formula cars, Lotuse Elises, and Honda Civics.

The event was combined with Freescale's Designing with Freescale event (DwF).
These are seminars held all across the world - over 200 annually. Usually, the
attendance is from the dozens to about a hundred eco-system engineers learning
about the Freescale and eco-system hardware/software tools to help them enable
integrate the Freescale solutions in their products.

Despite rain on Saturday, thanks to Freescale Japan's awesome organization, 340
eco-system engineers attended the seminars and had 170 family and friends join
in the fun of watching racing.
On Sunday, over 200 engineers attended with around 200 family members and in
addition to in-depth technology seminars, took part in go-kart racing and even a
parade run around Fuji Speedway. I imagine this was most people's first ever
experience driving on an actual race track - and everyone seemed to have a
blast!

The race was relatively straight-forward. After the previous day's
disappointment of picking the wrong tires, we started in 9th position on the
grid as a result of a relatively decent time that we set during the Rd.4 race
near the end on dry tires. As the lights went out, we slowly but surely
continued to pass cars to end up in a podium position for the Championship
class.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012

OGT! RACING – TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IS WHY WE RACE!

The 2012 OGT! Racing program in the Porsche Carrera Cup Japan series brings
together Freescale innovation with the R&D and marketing platforms offered by
professional motorsport. We are working with various technology partners. Tokyo
University is looking to improve medical research with Freescale’s biometric
technology. On the marketing side we have already succeeded in picking up
positive media exposure following our win in the opening race of the season. The
program is still in its infancy and we’d appreciate your feedback, ideas, and
leads.

The World of Motorsport – Striving for Maximum Efficiency

Racing has always been at the forefront of intense competition and technology
innovation. The most efficient overall program that takes full advantage of the
rules, wins. Motorsport serves as a technology development platform for the core
aspects of consumer vehicles.

The first electronic active suspension systems were developed in motorsport.
Porsche is one of the first to transition this technology to production sports
cars with the current iteration of the 991-generation Porsche 911. The system is
called Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC).

On the green technology side, 24-hour endurance races require maximum fuel
efficiency balanced with power-output. Therefore, manufacturers around the world
develop new fuel efficient engine technologies for motorsport to empower
production cars afterward.

Formula One is constantly on the cutting edge of new technology and the current
Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) is by far the most efficient hybrid
technology in the world. The McLaren team has built their KERS system on
Freescale silicon.

Race cars must also be built to be as durable and light as possible, which is
why the motorsport industry was the first to adopt carbon-fiber materials in the
80’s. The aerospace industry is now the largest buyer of carbon fiber because
the material proved its effectiveness in motorsports.

There are so many aspects of this OGT! Racing program that get us excited, and
we would like to share each one with you.

Freescale Technology

As this is a new technology R&D project, we must keep the details confidential
for the time-being, but here is the basic outline of what we plan to introduce.

There are four main components in this project that span all four of the
Freescale business segments.
1. Driver biometrics: we will be placing an array of Freescale sensors on the
driver’s body.
2. Vehicle telemetry: including steering angle, brake pressure, lateral and
longitudinal G-forces, speed, RPM, throttle application, and all of the
engine’s vitals. The data-logging unit is powered by Freescale chip.
3. Onboard video and other video technologies.
4. All of the above data will then be live-streamed to a world-wide consumer
audience using 3G/LTE technology with an intuitive user interface.

What is absolutely fantastic is that every piece is powered by Freescale –
biometric sensors (industrial segment), vehicle telemetry data aggregation and
video (automotive segment), streaming of all of the data via Freescale-powered
LTE basestations (networking segment), plus we hope to make an even more
advanced GUI accessible via Freescale-powered smart connected devices (consumer
segment). The convergence of all of the segments within one project is
revolutionary and demonstrates the unrivaled scope of Freescale solutions.

Race 1 at Okayama International Circuit – March 31st

Our race team of mechanics and engineers is KTR – located next to Fuji Speedway.
KTR is by far the most advanced and experienced Porsche race team in Japan, and
we have a sister team operated by the same group of people in the SUPER GT
series – the factory Hankook tire team, #33 Porsche 911. We were paired with KTR
as a result of Porsche Japan’s direct instructions to ensure maximum opportunity
for success on the track.

The competition vying for series championship is intense, especially with a
winning former SUPER GT GT500 Toyota factory driver and well-known Porsche
racing ‘expert,’ and a young driver that has come up through the same open-wheel
driver development program as myself , funded by Honda, Nissan, and Toyota
(Formula Challenge Japan).

We had a two-day test at Fuji Speedway mid-March. Despite having been out of the
racecar car for over 18 months, thanks to great teamwork we topped the charts as
the fastest car.

The race weekend began with challenging weather as rain poured for Saturday
morning qualifying. We were able to qualify in 2nd place for the afternoon race.
The unpredictable weather continued and it even hailed at one point! As all the
cars moved to the grid, with heavy clouds hanging over us but strong winds
drying the track rapidly, our team was the first to make a decision to start the
race on dry tires. This was a severely risky maneuver as the race is only 15
laps (~25 minutes).

We were essentially doomed had rain resumed because slick tires have zero
ability to disperse water and must reach very high temperature to generate any
kind of grip. Driving on dry tires on a wet track is like walking on ice in
leather-soled shoes, at 160mph. Several other teams followed our lead, and the
race got under way. Luck was on our side as strong winds continued to rapidly
dry the track, and as the race played out, it was clear that anyone not on dry
tires was out of competition for the win, so long as rain did not come back.

Tire management is a critical component in racing, as tire temperatures and tire
pressures can easily rise beyond optimum operation, resulting in a severe
decrease in grip. Cars on wet tires had the upper hand at the start of the race,
but that situation quickly reversed, as I passed two cars in front, with only
the GT500 veteran left to pass, also on dry tires, for the win. Once the
Michelin tires were ‘on,’ we quickly closed the gap and patiently waited for an
opportunity. It came a few laps later when we were lapping traffic that had
stayed with wet tires, resulting in an easy and safe pass. After that, we
continued to expand our lead, and our first goal of securing a win for this
racing program in its debut race became a reality.

Branding

This program is the perfect storm – an exciting technology innovation platform
that will be experienced by thousands via our live-streaming technology. OGT!
Racing’s message will reach far beyond just the interviews and articles in the
media. Pair this with a winning program and our momentum is compelling. The
opportunity to co-brand with global leaders and Freescale partners, like Porsche
and Michelin helps us differentiate Freescale from the competition in a
meaningful way – this is a branding exercise supported by our solid backbone of
new technology activation that can benefit end-users.

Call to Action
Please join our OGT! Racing community on Facebook and click “Like”:
https://www.facebook.com/ogtracing

Here is a direct link to the photo gallery from the race:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.380525988645133.91640.347248715306194&type=3
and from the hospitality:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.378440222187043.91230.347248715306194&type=3

posted by Igor Sushko @ 12:50 AM 0 comments

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012

2012 - MOST EXCITING YET!

I am happy to announce that I will be racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Japan
series this year. Team: OGT! Racing. Sponsors include: Freescale Semiconductor,
Avnet, Toyotsu Electronics, and Tokyo Electron Device. This is a collaborative
R&D project covering semiconductor applications in automotive, medical,
networking, and consumer segments. Stay tuned for some brand new things you've
likely never seen before! Furthermore, we plan on working with academic/medical
institutions to advance research in biometrics.

=================

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. produces and designs embedded hardware, with 17
billion semiconductor chips in use around the world. The company focuses on the
automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets with its product
portfolio including microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal
processors, digital signal controllers, sensors, RF power ICs and power
management ICs. The company also holds an extensive patent portfolio, including
approximately 6,100 patent families. In addition, the company offers software
and development tools to enable complete solutions and to support product
development.
The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with design, research and
development, manufacturing and sales operations in more than 20 countries.

=================

To put all of this in layman's terms - Freescale manufacturers an enormous
portfolio of microchips that have applications in virtually anything that has
electricity - TVs, remotes, ECUs, G-sensors, powertrain, network basestations,
e-readers, cameras, medical sensors, and the list goes on. Freescale is the
spin-off entity of the original Motorola Semiconductors division, created in
2004. It has a long history of being in the forefront of innovation.

I recommend full sound from your speakers for this:

As part of the 2012 program, Freescale Semiconductor Japan is a series sponsor
of Porsche Carrera Cup Japan - allowing for close collaboration, as Porsche is
also of course a Freescale customer. Another fantastic opportunity is the fact
that Michelin is the spec-tire used in the series. Freescale works with Michelin
on joint R&D in areas like active suspension and other innovations.

As I have been preparing this 2012 program for the last 1.5 years, I actually
had not had a chance to be back on track in a racecar since the summer of 2010
(SUPER GT GT300 - Taisan Porsche).
Our race team garage for 2012 is KTR - the factory Hankook Tire team in SUPER GT
racing in a Porsche 911 GT3R. This is hands down the best Porsche team in Japan
and I am excited to be working with them this year.

Now... to on-track news.

Our team has one of six 2012 997 GT3 Cup cars allotted to Japan - and what a
fantastic car it is!

Compared to the SUPER GT GT300 Taisan Porsche - the Cup cars actually have a
higher top speed due to more power output and significantly less downforce. So
in comparison the car naturally suffers in braking zones and mid-corner speed.
The top speed however, with some tailwind at Fuji Speedway, is 285km/h (180mph).

The official pre-season test at Fuji Speedway for Porsche Carrera Cup took place
on March 15 and 16.

The entire first day was spent on finding the right balance on the car, and so
was the morning of the second day.

Here is onboard from day 1 - the car was rather uncooperative and it was very
forced driving. This is 1:45.4 lap time.

Unfortunately I can't go into much detail about the setup changes at this point
since this is a spec-series - all competitors are racing in identical cars.

For the last session on day 2, I felt pretty happy with the resulting setup and
we threw on a new set of tires for a qualifying simulation.
The result - top time out of all of the PCCJ drivers! Time: 1:44.1 shaving off
1.3 seconds from day 1 in a car that's become just a pleasure to drive.

Porsche Carrera Cup Japan 2012 Race Calendar

Official Testing March 15-16 Fuji Speedway 4.563km
Rd.1|2 March 31 - April 1 Okayama International Circuit 3.703km with SUPER GT
Rd. 3 May 3-4 Fuji Speedway 4.563km with SUPER GT
Rd. 4|5 June 9-10 Fuji Speedway 4.563km One Make Festival
Rd. 6|7 July 28-29 Sportsland SUGO (Sendai) 3.704km with SUPER GT
Rd. 8 September 8-9 Fuji Speedway 4.563km with SUPER GT
Rd. 9 October 5-7 Suzuka International Racing Course 5.807km with Formula One
Japan Grand Prix
Rd. 10|11 October 27-28 Twin Ring Motegi 4.801km with SUPER GT

See you there!

Team/Sponsors:
OGT! Racing (Twitter Account here)
Freescale Semiconductor Japan
http://www.freescale.com
Avnet Japan
Toyotsu Electronics
Tokyo Electron Device

Special Thanks:
5Zigen / ARD Racing Suits
Arai Helmet

posted by Igor Sushko @ 5:30 AM 0 comments

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011

LOOKING FORWARD TO A BRIGHT FUTURE AFTER THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

The earthquake and the ensuing tsunami on March 11th off of the coast of Sendai
is a tragedy of monumental proportions.

While we all anxiously await the full consequences of this natural disaster, I
can say with pride that the Japanese people are the most prepared and capable of
handling the reconstruction that will take place.

United we will heal and united we will persevere!
We will not only rebuild but also demonstrate to ourselves and to the world the
true Japanese spirit.

This is Japan!

Here are a few ways you can help, even from halfway across the world:

Visit http://www.Redcross.org/ or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 from your
phone.

International Medical Core is providing emergency medical response, visit
http://www.Internationalmedicalcorps.org/. Text MED to 80888 from any mobile
phone to give $10.

posted by Igor Sushko @ 12:38 PM 0 comments

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2010

SUPER GT GT300 - SUZUKA POKKA 700KM RACE - POLE POSITION!

Super GT Official Tire Test at Fuji (Attendance: Interestingly, by my eyeball
count, the number was easily in the thousands, with crowding in the pit area)

Two weeks before the race, we tested new Yokohama Advan compounds and structures
at Fuji Speedway - and the results were great - all thanks to Yokohama.

Super GT Rd.6 - Suzuka Pokka 700KM (Attendance: 33,000 people)

Now this was a completely different animal. Armed with new Yokohama tires, we
were ready to roll. Beginning with the morning session on Saturday, we were
10th, with lots of room to improve, as I had to interrupt my attack on fresh
tires to change settings to ensure we got everything done on time.

For this race, since it's 700km, we had a 3rd driver - Mitsuyama with us.

In the second session, we were comfortably in 2nd.
Qualifying was F1-type knockdown system. Top 16 from Q1 go to Q2, and Top 10
from Q2 proceed to Q1 for pole position fight. Each session is 10 minutes, which
is good for 3 flying laps.

In Q1, we posted 2:08.3, for 3rd position. In Q2, we posted 2:08.3 again for 4th
position, and in the Pole Position shootout Q3, we got 2:07.4, good for pole by
a whole second!

The feeling was awesome! Finally.

Mitsuyama started the race, but the tires degraded a bit quicker than
anticipated and he ended up having to pit 11 laps earlier than scheduled at lap
19. He had a minor collision with #25 Porsche in the Gyaku-bank corner, but it
was only cosmetic, like the one I had back at Fuji. He pitted and I got into the
car for my 30 lap stint - harnesses: done, radio connection: done, coolsuit
connection: done, drink connection: done, main switch: on, clutch: in - ready to
roll. But.... I am not getting the signal from the team to go... I see mechanics
running around and in the mirror they are applying duct tape to the left rear
(where our car got hit). It felt forever - and it was... 30 seconds.

Finally I am given the order to go and so I do, with plenty of wheel spin to get
the tires up to temp asap.
With this time loss, I was about 13th at the pitout. It was an interesting stint
- as the crew chief got on the radio after the first complete lap and said
"Igor! That lap was too fast! We need the tires to last 30 laps. You need to
slow down." (but of course in Japanese) I did already have that in mind after
seeing the previous stint end in just 19 laps - but I made even more extra care
of not using up all the grip of the tires early by avoiding any sliding of the
rear, and actually going just a little slower and smoother than I'd like in the
Esses. The Esses consist of 5 turns - left, right, left, right, and left - one
immediately followed by the next, with mid-corner speeds ranging from 120mph to
75mph - which just builds a ridiculous amount of heat in especially the rear
tires in case of our setup. With regards to sliding - whenever the tires have
too much slip-angle - the difference between the angle of where the tires point
and where the car is actually going, an extreme amount of heat gets built due to
the tires' resistance, which leads to shorter life.

Still, I steadily passed cars and got up to 7th, with 27 seconds to the top at
44, giving us plenty of chances to get back up to top, especially since the race
is so long.

Then on lap 27 of the stint, with just a few laps to go until my stint is over,
a pack of GT500-class cars appear in the mirror and are eager to pass. At the
entry into the 3rd S-turn (left-hander), I have #23 NISMO GT-R diagonally to my
right, so I take a long apex at the very edge of the track - all the way on the
zebra, to make it easier for him to pass me on the right. He goes for it, but
before the pass is done, he swings his car to the left, and his left rear hits
my right front. He spins, and my front suspension arm breaks, all the while I am
trying to avoid hitting him as he is spinning in front of me.

I limp the car back to the pits. The awesome Taisan crew gets to work on fixing
the car, but... our race is done.

It was a crazy weekend - from the incredible high of Pole Position, to the
unfortunate crash on Sunday morning, to the crew fixing the car by race-time, to
the loss of 30 seconds in the pits after running at the top, to regaining lots
of that time and seeing a possible win again, and to getting taken out of the
race by an overly eager maneuver by another car from another class....

But, next up is Fuji 300KM on September 12th. We've definitely got a good chance
to repeat the pole and this time around - finish the race - hopefully ahead of
everyone.

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