A time attack is another term for time trail. The term is commonly used in Japan for individual time trial events for motor vehicles that involves a vehicle running around the circuit in lieu of a qualifying lap and the term is widely adopted outside the country for tuner event and medias.

Time Attack (alternatively known as Super Lap or Tuner Battles) originated in Japan when the tuning media organised the event on race circuits such as Tsukuba circuit, where it commonly occurs, as a proving ground for street tuned cars built at a large budget by highly respected tuing companies. As a result of the quick rise in popularity, tuners developed cars especially to use to beat the competition,most controversially the purpose built HKS CT230R Lancer EVO, when the car was entirely of Carbon Fiber, including the body, which attracted criticisms by competitors. The Lancer Evo would become the OEM chassis Time Attack record holder at Tsukuba which it still hold the record to this day.
Unlike other timed motorsports disciplines such as sprinting and hillclimbing, the car is required to start off under full rolling start conditions following a warm up lap where they will have to accelerate out as fast as possible to determine how fast they enter their timed lap.Commonly, as cars consists of modified roadgoing cars, cars are required to wear tires authorised for road use and in all, drivers are allocated to three laps in a final event run; warm-up, timed and cool-down.[