I Heart Honda.....Japan.
#1
02-19-2010, 08:56 AM
I Heart Honda.....Japan.
Bangkok go to Osaka
17 Feb 2010
18 Feb 2010
Visit J's Racing in Osaka.
Osaga go to Nagoya.......SUZUKA CIRCUIT
#3
02-19-2010, 10:13 AM
I am about to leave my place in about an hour and drive over to Suzuka. Should take me anywhere from 4 to 5 hours at this time of night. Maybe we can meet up out there.
Chris
Chris
#8
02-19-2010, 04:47 PM
Well I got here in exactly 4 hours, but worried I may have tripped some speed cameras. Guess I'll find out in 1~2 weeks. Right now I'm sitting at the mini course, they are having some sort of racing event. I'll move over to the main portion later. 6:45am right now, so still early.
#11
02-19-2010, 09:00 PM
One word after these five...DISGUSTINGLYSICK!!!
So I just made it into 1 word.
just rode the karts as well, 4 seconds off the fastest ever. Need to figure out the best line, last time I drove the karts was 6.5 years ago in the wet.
I've taken pictures off just about every car entered in the time attack. Waiting for Honda's new GT beast to be displayed. I'm almost positive it is to make an appearance. Running on 29 straight hours up and am wide awake at the moment.
This is definitely a Honda head's dream turned into reality. The sounds are indescribable. Aural ecstacy!!!
So I just made it into 1 word.
just rode the karts as well, 4 seconds off the fastest ever. Need to figure out the best line, last time I drove the karts was 6.5 years ago in the wet.I've taken pictures off just about every car entered in the time attack. Waiting for Honda's new GT beast to be displayed. I'm almost positive it is to make an appearance. Running on 29 straight hours up and am wide awake at the moment.
This is definitely a Honda head's dream turned into reality. The sounds are indescribable. Aural ecstacy!!!
#12
02-19-2010, 10:19 PM
Lol! Come to think of it, glad I don't live there.I mean, why play around? They should just go ahead and shove leashes up everyone's behinds!
I'll just never understand the efforts of certain human beings to try and control others.
Ah well... hope there isn't any "bad news" for you in "1~2 weeks." I hope your reasons for living there far exceed the obvious restraints placed on Japan's inhabitant's personal liberties!
#18
02-20-2010, 05:45 PM
OMFG!!! sooo many gorgeous looking cars, thanks for the share. Ohhhh and that beautiful import girl. I would love to be able to visit Japan one day.....the closes I got was a lay over in Narita.
#20
02-21-2010, 08:40 PM
I was able to get out onto the circuit, but unfortunately it was just a processional 2 lap run. Top speed I got up to was maybe 100km/h and that was from falling back a bit to open up some space. The StepWGN in front of the Fit in front of me was just lagging. I knew we wouldn't be going fast at all, but damn they didn't need to completely 'Drive Miss Daisy' it either as the gap to the next car was quite a decent distance. I did record those 2 laps, but not very interesting overall as stated the speed is nill. Still need to resize all the photos and publish them to my account. No action shots of any cars out on the circuit, just static shots from where they were in the paddock area.
Was speaking to Kazuo-San of J's and on Friday they spent 2 hours out on the circuit in their GE8 checking the ECU tune and reported zero problems with it. The ECU goes on sale this week...ugghhhh there will go more okane (money) towards the Fit. They also will have their intake available next month supposedly, haven't started production, so I would imagine the end of March if not early April.
Gan-San was on site speaking about Honda and their future, I didn't understand all of what he was saying, but I believe he stated that an all new Snisen will be coming from Honda in the near future?!?! I know he was talking about the test mule they had out on the Nurburgring, the supposed NS-X replacement that was utilizing an elongated Snisen chassis. He also stated I believe that Honda will most likely re-enter F1 in the future and I think he said something about if they didn't pull out they would of been the Champions this past season, which in a small way they were as they provided the Brawn team with funds to get through the season as well as sold everything to Ross for a single £. Well afterwards they had an autograph session with Gan-San, wasn't going to get one at first, but one of the staff members handed me a 2010 Honda Calendar so I ended up being last on line. I had the calendar opened to August and asked Gan-San to sign on his tanjoubi. At first he didn't even know I was a gai-jin until he looked up as I thanked him. He started to reply in Japanese and changed to English. You would not even realize he is going to turn 70 this year, really looks much younger.
Was speaking to Kazuo-San of J's and on Friday they spent 2 hours out on the circuit in their GE8 checking the ECU tune and reported zero problems with it. The ECU goes on sale this week...ugghhhh there will go more okane (money) towards the Fit.
They also will have their intake available next month supposedly, haven't started production, so I would imagine the end of March if not early April.Gan-San was on site speaking about Honda and their future, I didn't understand all of what he was saying, but I believe he stated that an all new Snisen will be coming from Honda in the near future?!?! I know he was talking about the test mule they had out on the Nurburgring, the supposed NS-X replacement that was utilizing an elongated Snisen chassis. He also stated I believe that Honda will most likely re-enter F1 in the future and I think he said something about if they didn't pull out they would of been the Champions this past season, which in a small way they were as they provided the Brawn team with funds to get through the season as well as sold everything to Ross for a single £. Well afterwards they had an autograph session with Gan-San, wasn't going to get one at first, but one of the staff members handed me a 2010 Honda Calendar so I ended up being last on line. I had the calendar opened to August and asked Gan-San to sign on his tanjoubi. At first he didn't even know I was a gai-jin until he looked up as I thanked him. He started to reply in Japanese and changed to English. You would not even realize he is going to turn 70 this year, really looks much younger.
Last edited by 555sexydrive; 02-21-2010 at 08:49 PM.