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| Jerry and I organized another NSXCA
event for NSX and S2000 owners. This time the High Performance Driver Training was
reserved for NSX and S2000 owners first. With cooperation from all the Honda
dealers, we managed to send out 15 to 20 invitations to S2000 owners on Oahu. Our
mailing list took care of the NSXs. When all was said and done, we had 4 NSXs with
five drivers (one couple shared the car) and 6 S2000s with 7 drivers (Fran and I shared
our car) plus one owner who came out but did not drive. A complete listing of all the run times are posted
here. The driver name is followed by the car they drove, followed by the four
timed runs. Each run time column is followed buy a column showing the number of
cones on the run. If this were a regular Autocross event and you received a DNF, you
run time would not appear at all.
*If you see a time of 74 seconds followed by a 2,
then the "raw" times was 70 seconds, but there was a 2 second penalty per cone,
thus the 74 second time.
** In some cases an instructor took a timed run
during the session, if this happened you'll see his name and the car he drove and the time
for that individual run.
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Upon arrival, everyone presented their
cars for a technical inspection. |
Nice panoramic picture
of all our participants |
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Frank brings his Kaiser Silver '98
through the timing lights. |
John, at the start of
the Emergency Lane Change maneuver. Look closely and you can see the flag man
getting ready to signal the start. |
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John rounds a sweeping corner in the
kidney bean shaped skidpad. |
Over the course of her
four timed runs, Kristi would just nip Tom for fastest time in the Formula Red NSX by less
than 3/10s of a second. |
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The "Lead - Follow" around
the course allowed everyone to become familiar with the track layout. |
Our four NSX
participants gather for a "de-brief" after their turns on the Kidney Bean
skidpad. This was more challenging than a regular skidpad because as the name
implies, one side was a tighter turn than the other, and there was a kink in the middle. |
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Four happy NSX drivers at the end of
the day. |
The S2000 contingent
consisted of 7 drivers, five of which were novices to this type of performance driving. |
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Larry running the S2000 through the
sweeping turn in the "Kidney Bean" |
Jeff in the Black
S2000 looks like he's about to hit a cone, but he tightened his "line" through
the turn and just missed the cone by 4-5 inches! |
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Nastuko drove well through the
exercises and by the time of the times runs, she was showing a lot of confidence. |
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