Last sunday, I took the car out to my local track in the South West of France.
It's not a very fast track but it comprises a few difficulties that are not obvious to master including a downhill off camber blind turn that one enters at over 110 mph...
Last time I went there, I had good fun chasing a 485 hp 991 GT3.
This time the car was upgraded with KW V3 clubsport coilovers replacing the Bilstein/Zanardi combo and a weaker (OEM) rear swaybar replacing the 22 mm Dali bar.
Avon ZZR semi-slick tires inflated at 2.3 and 2.5 bars.
In short, the car performed faultlessly: no overheating, good power, good brakes.
The handling was sharper than before making it much easier to reach the apexes even when coming in too fast.
The front to rear balance was good allowing to apply the power earlier when exiting the turns.
As I've never raced any other car than the NSX it's difficult to judge the quality of the handling but to me the car still feels a little "soft".
My passengers assured me it felt very stable?
I didn't have the time to play with the hydraulic settings that were in the middle of their range.
That could maybe explain my feeling?
On track, I passed relatively easily a Lotus 350 Exige S, the latest Alpine Renault coupe.
Due to the traffic I was not able to catch a pall with a Cayman GT4 allthough in the straight I could clearly pull in what I had lost elsewhere.
The only car that passed me (with a lot of difficulty) was a Nissan GTR.
This was mainly due to the my superior braking power and my semi-slicks on this twisty track.
I'll upload a video as soon as I can work it out.
Great fun in any case!
It was also amazed by the enthusiastic welcome of many of the attendees for most of which had never seen an NSX....
It's not a very fast track but it comprises a few difficulties that are not obvious to master including a downhill off camber blind turn that one enters at over 110 mph...
Last time I went there, I had good fun chasing a 485 hp 991 GT3.
This time the car was upgraded with KW V3 clubsport coilovers replacing the Bilstein/Zanardi combo and a weaker (OEM) rear swaybar replacing the 22 mm Dali bar.
Avon ZZR semi-slick tires inflated at 2.3 and 2.5 bars.
In short, the car performed faultlessly: no overheating, good power, good brakes.
The handling was sharper than before making it much easier to reach the apexes even when coming in too fast.
The front to rear balance was good allowing to apply the power earlier when exiting the turns.
As I've never raced any other car than the NSX it's difficult to judge the quality of the handling but to me the car still feels a little "soft".
My passengers assured me it felt very stable?
I didn't have the time to play with the hydraulic settings that were in the middle of their range.
That could maybe explain my feeling?
On track, I passed relatively easily a Lotus 350 Exige S, the latest Alpine Renault coupe.
Due to the traffic I was not able to catch a pall with a Cayman GT4 allthough in the straight I could clearly pull in what I had lost elsewhere.
The only car that passed me (with a lot of difficulty) was a Nissan GTR.
This was mainly due to the my superior braking power and my semi-slicks on this twisty track.
I'll upload a video as soon as I can work it out.
Great fun in any case!
It was also amazed by the enthusiastic welcome of many of the attendees for most of which had never seen an NSX....
