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Pride
31-07-2018, 08:21 PM
I'd just like to post a very, very big thank you to Red Line promotions, Honda UK and Honda Racing Europe in allowing all NSX owners the opportunity to participate, albeit only on the parade laps :) at this fantastic 24hr race weekend festival of GT3 cars.

After arriving at the 4star hotel in Liege we all met up for dinner where one of the pro drivers Esteban Guerrieri gave us all a briefing for tomorrow's highly anticipated 3 lap parade of arguably the worlds greatest race track, Francorchamps.

Esteban mentioned that speeds would be restricted to 80kph (50mph), which is actually quiet fast for a parade lap but as we were all to soon find out on Saturday that restriction would soon go out of the window as we all took to the track , should I say, rather enthusiastically. :)

What made these laps even more special for me was being able to don my replica Senna helmet while waving to thousands of motor sport fans wearing the same Stand21 red gloves my hero once wore.

The response was amazing as there were so many people around the circuit and in the main grandstands, along with the Orange suited track marshals who were all enthusiastically waving back. I've got to say I never realised how tiring it would be to steer with my left hand while waving out of the window with my gloved right hand all the time sweating inside my crash helmet in what must have been 30deg plus heat. :(

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The 24hr race started soon soon after the parade laps had finished.

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The GT3 NSX qualified in 39th place on the grid out of 68 cars and incredibly on its first outing finished a very respectable 31st overall and 8th in the Pro-Am Class. Now considering all the other teams had been heavily competing over the last 8 rounds of races this year and also the whole of last season the Honda did spectacularly well I think, so a very well done to the whole team, I'm sure it must have been a great marketing success for Honda and a testament to it's reliability. :rolleyes:

The hospitality Honda laid on was second to non and we wanted for nothing except maybe for a plaster to go on my blistered toe but due to Hayley's magic handbag that was duly sorted too, so thank you.:rolleyes:

Here's hoping that Honda will decide to compete for a complete season next year, and on this showing they should do very well if they did.

Here are a few links:

https://www.hondaproracing.com/gallery/

https://www.hondaproracing.com/blog/esteban-guerrieri-leads-honda-nsx-parade-at-the-24-hours-of-spa/

https://www.hondaproracing.com/blog/emotional-24-hours-of-spa-debut-for-castrol-honda-racing/

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/07/03/68-car-spa-24-hours-entry-released.html

https://www.total24hours.com/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/nsx-returns-spa-castrol-honda-racing-brings-nsx-gt3-spa-24hr/

Senninha
31-07-2018, 09:40 PM
Thanx for posting ... how many received / bought the 70th anniversary poster??

goldnsx
01-08-2018, 07:41 AM
Nice write up. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.

It looks like most of the NSX were from the UK.

britlude
01-08-2018, 07:46 AM
It looks like most of the NSX were from the UK.

Oh they just hogged the limelight :)

NSXGB
01-08-2018, 12:25 PM
It looks like most of the NSX were from the UK.

At least 11 UK forum members plus a few other UK NC1 owners that I don't think are forum members.

Was a fun trip. Nice to have a blat around the track.

Shawnsx5
01-08-2018, 07:35 PM
I agree with all Clive said it was a great weekend and well worth the extra effort in getting across the Channel caused by the hot weather affecting Eurotunnel services quite badly but everyone made it in the end. Thank you Honda Racing.

The parade lap, in fact 3 laps, was great until some of us towards the back were overtaken by a pre production new model GTR which looked much better to previous versions to my eyes.

Pride
07-08-2018, 07:20 PM
To all those that couldn't make the trip here are 2 very enjoyable views of this iconic classic race track, enjoy:😎

https://youtu.be/zL1b2k3yGw8

https://youtu.be/I1HrzC3j1rE

Senninha
07-08-2018, 07:52 PM
Thanks for posting ... defiantly exploring track limits in the race car .... crazy overtake by the 911 ...

Pride
08-08-2018, 10:23 AM
Just had this link sent through from Honda Racing media, some great snaps:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14ABF7exsqnxw5Ngky2cv4xBlSSsnY07W?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/14ABF7exsqnxw5Ngky2cv4xBlSSsnY07W/1ViV4SmaS8yCh_XxdfKeAu3Nvccb7zqgW?usp=sharing&sort=13&direction=a

some great pics in there. 👏👏👍

Pride
19-08-2018, 11:16 AM
Just discovered this French Honda website link which has a good video link to the NSX parade lap we took part in before the big 24hr race.

https://news.sportauto.fr/news/1529754/Honda-NSX-parade-Spa-Francorchamps-vidéo

It also has a great video sowing how much slower a standard NC1 is in lap times around Spa compared to the race going GT3NSX which was lapping in and around 1'32" during the race.

If you Click here you can view directly from their Faceache site:

http://www.facebook.com/honda.france/videos/10156940386506320/ view it direct on the Face-ache site.

You'll also see Hagason struggling to overtake me in his supercharged beauty up the main straight, so of course to help him I just waved him by. 😂