Hey has any of you been to a chinmotorsport event? I am going to register for one down in Miami and just wanted to get some input from anyone. Looks pretty cool from the website.

 

Noone has heard of Chinmotorsports? Come guy's www.chinmotorsports.com


[Modified by ITR-Animal, 12:46 PM 8/27/2001]

 

i haven't but your screen name along w/ the event name reminded me of my skating days. "The Search for Animal Chin" That's one of my favorite Skate vdos!

yoshi - who misses sk8bording and The Bones Brigade

 

OH, BTW Yoshi the videos you sent me ROCK!!

 

Actually Dave-ROR and RS (Adam) attend Chin Motorsports events quite frequently...maybe they'll see this topic and post their thoughs. I've heard nothing but good things about it though...

 

I've heard of Chinmotorsports sponsored events. A lot of S2000 guys go participate (check http://www.s2ki.com ). It's more of a instructional "race" that you're not suppose to race others and etc. If you have the $$$, then definitely go for it. BTW, the owner of Chinmotorsports has S/C NSX and S2000.

 

glad j00 like the vdos is gansan (the old d00d) a crazy driver or what!?!

 

Yeap... Those guy can drive man....

 

You can also check out the site http://www.nsxflorida.com/ or look at my site below to see some photos/recaps.

 

Adam you going to the Miami homestead event? come on get that R fixed and come on down

ITR-Animal: i'll sum up what I IM'd you with here just for the sake of others as well..

Chin runs his events open track, it's not session based, yet I've seen one incident in two years, and that was a NSX driver who went too hot into the "safety pin" at Sebring. The instructors are pretty good (from what I hear and see), people are courteous, you usually don't have ******** on the track, there have been a few times were ITA guys got a little crazy (Mike Dunn, who almost ran a friend off the track) but I've never seen him do that again, so I assume he was spoken to. The safety stewards are good and they'll blackflag you for doing anything stupid. Overall, a slightly strict event, but worth it for TONS of track time.

(edit: spelled miami wrong. lol)


[Modified by Dave-ROR, 9:08 AM 8/28/2001]

 

how much does it cost to run? what type of safety measures are necessary (just helmet, or anything else?) I'm definitely interested and it's about an hour away from me...maybe we can make a day of it w/ a group.

 

Snell M or SA 90 or better helmet. And they inspect the vehicle of course. Cost is $225, there might be a $40 membership fee too, I forget. I would do the following:

1. Bleed brakes and use good fluid (Castrol LMA, ATE Super Blue, whatever ford calls their truck HD stuff now)
2. Run better pads, porterfield R4S, or even Hawk Blues. Adam can give you a good reason not to run R4's
3. Check all other fluids, do an oil change, etc.

 

Well,
I flew down for their Newyears eve track day at Sebring to go with a friend of mine. The Event was very well run and mostly all the drivers(one formula continental driver shouldn't have been in that car, nearly got my friend and I into an accident) were responsible and drove within their limits, That is really stressed(driving within your limits I mean.) Anyway it was my first ever event at Sebring and I drove another friends NSX for Eight laps--It was incredible!!! I loved it. Hooked me for life, now my bank account hates me, but my car is starting to love me. Anyway, I would tell you to go, if you have the money. LOTS of seat time and some nice people.

If, any of you were there for that event, did you ever ind out what the wind chill factor is traveling at 160 MPH?? That was definatley a cold morning in Florida.

Later

Dan


[Modified by WantingaType-R, 2:42 PM 8/28/2001]

 

Wanting: I was there, I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO ******* cold that day. holy ****. thanks for reminding me! But damn, it was worth it I was sick for a week afterwards tho... I know my head was frost bitten

If you guys wanna see a cold florida morning, check out some of the pics from that day on chinmotorsport's website, there's some of ppl scraping ice off their cars


[Modified by Dave-ROR, 10:10 AM 8/28/2001]

 

Well, I will be there October 13, Hope to see some of you guy's there. I live in Miami so it won't be a far drive for me.

 

Dave, I took the day off tomarrow and will be stopping by Ferman to have my tranny looked at - hopefully they will just order me a new set of syncros and tell me to "drive better."

 

adam: be careful. Darren is getting **** for his car now. They described "speeds in excess of 100mph" as "excessive abuse" and "racing". They even mentioned that they could check in with any "officer of the law" who would decide that such speeds were, in fact, excressive and highly illegal. Of course, I would have laughed my *** off at the Zone Rep when he said that and had him call an officer at once. I really would like to know how 100mph is "excessive and highly illegal" on a closed track for a driving school.

sigh.

 

How did they know he went above a 100mph - **** I'm just shifting into 4th

 

One of his cars problems only shows up above 100mph, forgot what it was tho.

 

Hmmm, maybe I can get October 13th off...if not, I would really like to go to the December one at Sebring

 

Jarin: def get the day off, well, it's a saturday but I'm driving down friday and taking that friday off. Even if you don't wanna run your car come along, you guys can either ride in the GS-R or take the ITR.

 

I asked WeiShen how the track would be setup, here's his response.

"We use the front and back straight as well as the infield road course. We
do not use the banked corners. It's VERY fast as is since both turn 1 and
turn 9 where you head into the infield are effectively lift, slight turn,
and back on the power.

There is some elevation change as well as the "bowl" which is a very slow
infield corner with elevation change. It's a very nice layout with some
tricky corners. I think you'll like it!"

 

Dave,
Were you running your Type R?
I was there with Aaron Weiss and his silver 993, now gone and replaced by a Nice 87 911 track car. Who had the stripped PY type r? I wanted a ride real bad.
Hey, what was your cars number, I took a Load of photos.

Dan

 

Aaron! hehe cool. I actually have a White GS-R, the PY ITR is owned by Adam (RS on this board, posted in this thread). He's more than willing to take people I'm sure, just ask! He took me for a ride at the last autox, I never had such a fun spin (literally! hehe sorry Adam) before. Hell we could have thrown her into reverse and crossed the timing lights I will say that Adam has never spun out on the track.. with me in the car

My car number was most likely 49, a white GS-R, pretty plain looking car. It would have had Anthracite K1's on it.

 

Just found some pics, it was #49..