rkanaga
09-06-2021, 09:04 PM
So my new track day hero (BAC Mono - before you ask, yes you do feel like an F1 driver in one, simply epic!) decided to break (split a coolant pipe due to the alternator coming loose grrr...) at the Goodwood track day today after only 2 runs. So it was straight onto the transporter to go to the factory before Silverstone on Monday. (Luckily as this was a factory supported day, there was a team there looking after the cars.)
So rather than waste the entry fee, I hitched a lift back home on my buddy's motorbike and returned in NSX 5 for the afternoon. I was a little nervous as the NSX is now quite old (1991) and not really a track car, at least not compared to the Mono and GT3 RS's and 458's that were there.
I needn't have worried, the old girl coped without turning a hair, and was a complete joy to throw around the Goodwood circuit, I had no idea the handling was this good. I'm pretty sure I was actually virtually as fast as in the Mono (520 bhp/tonne!) because the NSX is so friendly compared to a race car.
The 30 year old Honda engineering didn't skip a beat and NSX 5 was perfectly able to cruise back home afterwards.
Very impressed. I might do the next track day in the NSX rather than the Mono!
https://thumbsnap.com/t/UDicgihK.jpg (https://thumbsnap.com/UDicgihK)
https://thumbsnap.com/t/HJFQ8Xdm.jpg (https://thumbsnap.com/HJFQ8Xdm)
(It also attracted more of a crowd than the more extreme cars there, and I even ended up doing some passenger laps for admirers at the end of the day.)
So rather than waste the entry fee, I hitched a lift back home on my buddy's motorbike and returned in NSX 5 for the afternoon. I was a little nervous as the NSX is now quite old (1991) and not really a track car, at least not compared to the Mono and GT3 RS's and 458's that were there.
I needn't have worried, the old girl coped without turning a hair, and was a complete joy to throw around the Goodwood circuit, I had no idea the handling was this good. I'm pretty sure I was actually virtually as fast as in the Mono (520 bhp/tonne!) because the NSX is so friendly compared to a race car.
The 30 year old Honda engineering didn't skip a beat and NSX 5 was perfectly able to cruise back home afterwards.
Very impressed. I might do the next track day in the NSX rather than the Mono!
https://thumbsnap.com/t/UDicgihK.jpg (https://thumbsnap.com/UDicgihK)
https://thumbsnap.com/t/HJFQ8Xdm.jpg (https://thumbsnap.com/HJFQ8Xdm)
(It also attracted more of a crowd than the more extreme cars there, and I even ended up doing some passenger laps for admirers at the end of the day.)