Yes, he’d had the NSX just over a year moving on from a GTR, if I remember, and was really enjoying the car. He had two qualifying runs, I thought the car wasn’t as quick off the line as I expected, however this was probably due to seeing the launch of the cars built to win overall. I recorded one of the NSX runs at 101mph at 14.something secs. The winner, a highly tuned twin turbo 1300hp R8 set a new all time record of 8.99secs at 164.4 mph, very brave driver!
I didn’t realise how rough and uneven the strip is, veteran drivers were definitely threading a route to avoid the worst of it. Bikes didn’t run due to risks caused by the amount of road marking paint used by the local council.