| Date |
Event Description |
| January 2-10 |
Southwest: Los Angeles
Auto Show. www.laautoshow.com (CA) |
| January 16 |
Northwest: IMAX
movie "Everest." (CA) |
| January 16 |
Southwest: Open Track
and Testing day at Holtville. (CA) |
| January 23 |
Southwest: Dave
Turner's Track Time at Holtville Raceway. (CA) |
| January 30-31 |
 Southwest: Touring Car Club Track Event at Willow
Springs. (CA) See Doug Hayashi's NSX-Files
website for details.[Photo by Public Imaging (805)-577-0178] |
| January 30-31 |
 SouthCentral: Motorsports Club event at
Texas World Speedway. (TX) |
| February 6-7 |
Northwest: Open
Track at Laguna Seca! (CA) |
| February 13-14 |
 Southwest: Alfa Romeo Owner's Club track event at
Laguna Seca. (CA) See Doug Hayashi's NSX-Files
website for details.[NSX vs. "Dunestang" photo by Vytas B.] |
| February 20 |
 Midwest: Indy Karting - Dinner
(19th) and Brunch (20th) Downtown Indianapolis. 2 NSX (black, green) over 25 drivers
total (IN) |
| February 27-28 |
Northwest:
Thunderhill BMWCC track school. (CA) |
| February 28 |
Southwest: Karting
school at Adams Kart Track (125cc shifter karts) (CA) |
| March 4 |
Southwest: Member's
dinner meeting at Borrelli's Restaurant 6:30 PM. For more details contact Tino Stramotas
at boxer5@ix.netcom.com. (CA) |
| March 6 |
Southwest: Dave
Turner's Track Time at Holtville International Raceway. For more info, contact Dave Tuner speed@daveturner.com (CA) |
| March 19-21 |
 SouthCentral: NSTEXPO '99The Texas
NSX gang held their annual NSTEXPO
event March 19-21. It included a tech session, seminars, drives, food, sightseeing, and
lots of fun! |
| March |
 Southeast: Atlanta area weekend NSX meet. This
picture was taken with Stone Mountain in the background. |
| March 27 |
Southwest: NSX power
BBQ at Christian Sarron's place in Carlsbad at 12:00 Noon. Contact Alex Vizcarra knockout@ix.netcom.com (CA) |
| March 27-28 |
 Southeast: 3rd Annual Spring FlingThe southeast
NSXers got together for a weekend of track time at Road Atlanta and social events at their
annual Spring Fling event. |
| April |
 Jay
Levine, Tony Verriello and Bob Larson got
together for great photo shoot at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo. One of these pictures was
printed in the Spring / Summer 1999 edition of Acura Driver magazine. Now you can
see the rest of these
great pictures! Jay was in his '97 Blue/Black, Tony in his '97 Yellow/Black, and Bob was
driving the Acura-supplied '97 Silver/Black (he used to own a '94 Green/Tan). |
| April 1 |
Southwest: Member's
dinner meeting at Borrelli's Restaurant 6:30 PM. For more details contact Tino Stramotas
at boxer5@ix.netcom.com. (CA) |
| April 3-4 |
Southwest:Touring Car
Club Track Event at ButtonWillow Raceway. Contact TCC at (626)284-2183 or www.touringcarclub.com (CA) |
| April 10-11 |
GingerMan Driver-Ed by CGI Motorsports. (MI) 7 NSX |
| April 16-18 |
Southwest: Long Beach
Grand Prix. Tickets (562)436-9953 or (800)752-9524. Web site www.longbeachgp.com (CA) |
| April 17-18 |
Midwest:
Rites o Spring Driver Ed. BMWCCA, Putnam Park Road Course (IN) 3-4 NSX |
| April 17-18 |
Midwest:
PCA Great Plains, Heartland Park (KS ) 2-3 NSX |
| April 24 |
Midwest:
Dinner at Black Ram Desplaines (IL) (25 people) |
| April 24-25 |
Midwest:
Driver Ed, Hikari Works Racing (the Forgeline guys), Putnam Park Road Course (IN) 2-3 NSX |
| April 25 |
Northwest:
Pacific Coast Dream Machines show at Half Moon Bay. Open to anything with an engine. $15
to enter. Call 650.726.2328 or see www.miramarevents.com/dreammachines
|
| May 6-9 |
 National:
NSXPO '99. WOW! Over and 300 owners and
enthusiasts turned out with over 150 NSXs for the annual nation-wide meet. This year it
was held in Monterey, CA with a 17-mile drive, concours, a country drive, karting school,
autocross, and 2-day track event at Laguna Seca on the 8th and 9th. Official web site; also see sites by myself, Hirofumi Tomiyoshi, Bill Zachar, Wei-Shen Chin.
If you have an NSXPO '99 site not listed here please e-mail me and I'll add it to the
list. |
| May 13-16 |
 Southwest: Nevada Silver State Challange. A VERY HIGH
SPEED event on Nevada's Hwy 318. Congratulations to NSXers Wei-Shen Chin and Linda Hinson for taking
FIRST PLACE in the 135 MPH speed class with an average speed of 135.0281 MPH over 90
miles. This was the first time competing in this type of event for both of them. Full details on Wei-Shen's web site. (NV) |
| May 15-16 |
Midwest:
Putnam Park, BMWCCA Buckeye Chapter (IN) 4 NSX |
| May 16 |
Southwest:
Muckenthaler Motor Car Show and Vintage Race Car tour, in Fullerton. Call (714)738-6595
for more details. (CA) |
| May 29 |
Southwest: Touring Car
Club Track Event at Streets of Willow. School and Test Day. Contact TCC
at (626)284-2183. www.touringcarclub.com (CA) |
| May 31 |
Midwest:
GingerMan Driver-Ed, CGI Motorsports (IN).
|
| June |
 SouthCentral: Track event at TWS (TX) 7
NSXs |
| June 12-13 |
Midwest:
Bluegrass Bimmers Driving School, Putnam Park Road Course (IN) 2 NSX |
| June 19-20 |
 Southwest: Virginia City Hill Climb in Nevada. Dough
Hayashi takes on The Hill for the fourth year running. Read all about it here. |
| July |
Northwest:
LaCarrera Open Road Race |
| July |
 SouthCentral: Dyno Day (TX) |
| July 3 |
 Northwest:
Reservoir Ball Run II, potluck BBQ,
games, DVDs, swim, spa, in San Jose, celebrate 4th of July! (CA) 15 NSXs |
| July 3 |
Northwest:
Advanced driving school at Thunderhill using FULL track. (CA) |
| July 3 |
Northwest:
Thunderhill Street School $175 incl lunch and t-shirt Note: this is the SHORT track. (CA) |
| July 3-4 |
Southwest: Touring
Car Club Track Event and Night Enduro at Willow Springs. Fireworks! (CA) |
| July 3-4 |
Southwest: Alfa Romeo
Owners Club time trial and race at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. (CA) |
| July 3-4 |
 Southwest: PRO Racing/Touring Car
Club Night Enduro at Willow Springs (CA) Congratulations to Doug Hayashi and Wayne Mello
for taking 2nd in their class in Doug's NSX in their first night race. |
| July 8 |
Southwest: Los
Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. (CA) |
| July 10 |
Southwest: Zenshuji
Obon Festival at the Zenshuji Soto Mission. Open class car show. Everyone is invited to
attend and/or participate. (CA) |
| July 10-11 |
Southwest: Lifestyles
and Performance Expo Showdown at the Santa Monica Museum of Flight in Santa Monica, CA.
Everybody is invited. (CA) |
| July 17 |
Southwest: Touring
Car Club track event at Streets of Willow. One-day driving and racing school. (CA) |
| August 5 |
Southwest: Los
Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. Torrance, CA |
| August 14-15 |
Southwest: Touring
Car Club Track Event at Pomona Raceway. |
| August 16 |
 Southeast: Several Florida NSXers attended a track event at Sebring International Raceway in mid-August.
(FL) |
| August 21 |
 Northwest: 2nd annual Tour de East Bay ending at
Concord Acura. This was the 2nd
annual Tour de East Bay. Over 35 people and 25 NSXs particpated in this event. It
started with a 2-hour drive on backroads from Milpitas to Orinda, then a short freeway
cool-down cruise to Acura of Concord for a BBQ lunch, tech session, and raffles. (CA) |
| August 21-22 |
Southwest: Touring
Car Club Track Event at Buttonwillow. www.touringcarclub.com
(CA) |
| August 21-22 |
Southwest: Speed
Trial USA Track Event at Willow Springs Raceway. A bunch of NSXCA members have signed up
for this event, BBQ dinner plans. Speed Trial web site: www.speedtrialusa.com (CA) |
| August 27 |
Northwest: NSX
parking corral at the Concours Italiano, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley. RSVP Eddy Cue at cue@dnai.com (CA) |
| August 27 |
Northwest:
Concours Auto Rally, open to all cars, includes car show, parade thru Pebble Beach and
Carmel, a BBQ and awards. (CA) |
| August 27-29 |
Southwest: Monterey
Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca. Featured marque: Auto Union. For more info and
tickets call (800) 327-SECA (CA) |
| August 27-29 |
 Midwest: Bob and Leigh Butler and the Midwest NSX crew held
the NSX Buckeye Fly-in
event in Ohio at the end of August. It included an Air Force Museum tour including photo
ops with an F-16, country drives, a BBQ Dinner, door prize raffles and a high-speed
autocross! (OH) |
| Aug/Sep |
Northwest:
Third annual swim/drive at Harry S.'s. Details being decided. (CA) |
| September 2 |
Southwest: Los
Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. Torrance, CA. For more
info contact Tino Stramotas boxer5@ix.netcom.com
(CA) |
| September 3-5 |
Southwest: Ford Los
Angeles Street Race. For more info contact PRO Racing Series, Inc. Jeff at (818) 881-2270
or http://pro-racing.org (CA) |
| September 4-5 |
Southwest: Alfa Romeo
Owners Club time trial and race at Willow Springs. For more info contact AROSC at (310)
471-2022 (CA) |
| September 4-5 |
 Southeast: The Labor Day weekend
marked NSXcapades, the first Florida NSX Club meeting in Miami FL. A total of 17
NSXs participated in the festivities which began with a Saturday luncheon at Miami Acura. There was cruise night, brunch, tours,
shopping, dinner at Penrods, and a group outing to
check out the South Beach clubs. (FL) |
| September 9 |
Southwest: Phoenix
NSX Club monthly membership dinner at Eastside Mario's in Tempe (AZ) |
| September 10-12 |
Northwest: CART
Honda Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca. Info and tickets (800) 327-SECA. (CA) |
| September 18 |
Southwest: Phoenix
NSX Club attends the Scottsdale Pavilions auto show. Preferred NSX parking. (AZ) |
| September 18 |
 Northeast: DC area dealer tech session, BBQ,
raffles, country drive, and dinner in Harpers Ferry, WV. 20+ NSXs (MD, VA, WV) |
| September 19 |
Southwest: Silver
State Challange in Nevada, classes from 90mph to 150mph. More information at www.silverstateclassic.com (NV) |
| September 25 |
Southwest: Phoenix
NSX Club autocross at the Tempe Diablo stadium. In cooperation with the Corair club. There
will be an NSX-only category. (AZ) |
| September 25-26 |
Northwest: Open
Track at Thunderhill, NSXs welcome! Lots of track time. (CA) |
| September 25-26 |
 Southwest: Over a dozen California folks got together
for the 2nd annual Pines to Palms event, which included a Central California tour, wine
tasting, BBQ and Hearst Castle tour. (CA) |
| September 30 |
Northwest: BMW
Track School at Thunderhill. NSXs might be allowed. (CA) |
| October 2-11 |
Japan: NSX Fiesta in Japan at the Suzuka Circuit! (Japan) |
| October 5 |
Southwest: Los
Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. Torrance (CA) |
| October 8-10 |
Southwest: VISA
Sports Car Championships at Laguna Seca, Monterey, (CA) |
| October 9-10 |
Southwest: Alfa Romeo
Owners Club drivers school at Streets of Willow. (CA) |
| October 9-10 |
 Southwest: Phoenix NSX club drive through the white
mountains of eastern Arizona featuring the state's best driving roads, including Rte. 191
a.k.a. "Coronado Trail". (AZ) |
| October 9-10 |
 SouthCentral: Several folks hit Texas
World Speedway again for a little high-speed fun. Check out Marc Weinberg's cool video! (6.3 megs) |
| October 9-11 |
 Several
US owners attended NSX Fiesta
'99 in Japan during early October. They enjoyed sightseeing Kyoto, a convoy to Suzuka,
many activities at the famous Suzuka Circuit, driving S2000, dinners, a convoy to Nagoya,
automobile showroom, activities in Twin Ring Motegi, factory tour and more. This year's
Fiesta had 203 NSXs and 315 people in attendance! |
| October 10 |
 Southeast: NSX
Club of Florida VIP tour of the Kennedy Space Center
launch and landing facilities located at Cape Canaveral. It included areas of the facility
such as the shuttle landing strip and close-ups of the shuttle launch pads which are not
open to the general public. 11 NSXs. |
| October 16-17 |
 Northeast: Second
Annual Banzai Blast! Beautiful weather favored the Northeast NSXers who got together
Octboer 16-17 for Don Gallo's 2nd annual Banzai Blast
event in PA and NJ. It included a tech session at Davis
Acura, "demo" rides in a Honda S2000, a brisk rally
through countryside, a sushi and habachi dinner at NSXer Charlie Yeh's Banzai Restaurant,
raffles for great prizes (including an aerobatic biplane ride!), and a track event at Pocono Raceway! Bob
Larson posted a writeup &
photos. (PA and NJ) |
| October 21 |
 Southwest: Doug Hayashi and Wayne Mello went to the
PRO Racing/TCC Las Vegas Night Enduro race in an attempt to finish the season with a bang.
As the picture shows, the Pulp Racing crew is finally starting to travel in style... Read
Doug's full writeup here!
(NV) |
| October 28-31 |
Southwest:
CART Morlboro 500 at the California Speedway. (CA) |
| October 29-31 |
 Southwest:
Three days of sun and fun… that was the First Annual Silver State NSX Classic.
Drives to Hoover Dam and other places, dealer
event, great meals. Featuring a two-day track event at Las Vega Speedway classic road
course. (NV) |
| October 30-31 |
Southwest:
Touring Car Club Track Event at Las Vegas Speedway. (NV) |
| November 4 |
Southwest:
Los Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. Torrance (CA). |
| November 5-7 |
Southwest:
San Diego Grand Prix by the American Lemans Racing Series. If the club can sell 50 tickets
they will provide a car corral and possibly a show car exhibition at their expo. (CA) |
| November 7 |
 Southwest: Invitations were mailed out to NSX owners and enthusiasts on the island of
Oahu for the inaugural "Aloha State NSX
Drive." The half-a-day drive started at the Pflueger Acura
dealer with pastries and coffee. Leaving the dealership west then north to 'North Shore'. During the winter months, the North Shore rocks with monster waves that roll in unabated 2,000 miles from Alaska.
It's also the setting for "Baywatch Hawaii" at Haleiwa Alii Beach Park. |
| November 13-14 |
Southwest:
Alfa Romeo Owners Club time trial and race at Willow Springs. (CA) |
| November 15 |
 Southeast:
The Florida crew hit Sebring
on November 15 for some high-speed fun. |
| November 27-28 |
Northwest:
Open Track at Thunderhill, NSXs welcome! Lots of track time. (CA) |
| November 27-28 |
Southwest:
Green Flag Driving Association track event at ButtonWillow. (CA) |
| November 27-28 |
 Southwest: 1999 IDRC/NHRA International Finals, Pomona
Raceway (CA) |
| December 2 |
Southwest:
Los Angeles area monthly membership dinner at Borrelli's Restaurant. Torrance, CA. (CA) |
| December 4 |
 Southeast:
NSXers from NC, VA and MD met in Chapel Hill, NC on December 4 for a dealer tech
session, lecture by exotic car performance tuning expert Peter Krause, BBQ lunch, scenic
drive through UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University ending with dinner at the Angus Barn
restaurant. (NC) |
| December 18-19 |
 Southwest:
Touring Car Club Track Event at Laguna Seca Raceway. Doug "The Blur" Hayashi participates in the
last race of the season
with the Touring Car Club at Laguna Seca December 18-19. (CA) |
| January 1 |
Northwest:
NASA (National Auto Sport Association) autocross event. Round #1.NSXs welcome. Class is SS
(Super Stock). Four timed runs. Entry: $25. Marina Airfield, Marina (near Monterey). (CA) |
