Track Day Star

[rkanaga]

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!









(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.)

[Pride]

Great little story, thanks for sharing.👍
I love taking my NSX around Goodwood as well.
It’s such a great flat track with beautiful sweeping curves and challenging twisties.

[Pride]

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