NJMP – www.meilinkvision.com https://www.meilinkvision.com Home to the photography of Keith Meilink Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:58:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 NSXPO 2011 Part 3 of 3 https://www.meilinkvision.com/2013/02/04/nsxpo-2011-part-3-of-3/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:58:39 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=341 Here we are with the conclusion of my NSXPO 2011 coverage at NJMP. Sorry for not getting it up yesterday, between a late night on Saturday and Sunday spending some time with the family and the Super Bowl, it didn’t happen. Not to mention, I’m sure many people were watching the Super Bowl and this would have just gotten lost in the mix anyway. NSXPO was a great time and I’m really hoping to get out there again this year as a driver. It’ll be at VIR (Virginia International Raceway) and is only about seven hours from me. I’ve run VIR once before and it quickly became one of my favorite tracks and I’ve been looking to get back out there ever since.

So now on with the remainder of the pics. If you missed the other parts check them out:

NSXPO 2011 Part 1 of 3

NSXPO Part 2 of 3

 

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All the cars out on track coming back in after the black flag from the blue Turbo NSX going off

 

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A very common plate for NSX owners…

 

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…As seen in this picture.

 

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Burnt Orange NA2.

 

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It’s not every day my ITR is chilling in the middle of a bunch of NSX’s.

 

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A couple of shots of different sessions waiting to head out.

 

 

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These two NSX’s doing battle.

 

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From what I gathered on the forums after the event, the owner of this R8 is a previous NSX owner. Talk about stepping your game up.

 

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Sweet gt3.

 

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Another of the GT3.

 

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In this image you can see all the sand being kicked up that was still out there after the cleaning crew took care of the oil spill.

 

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Red NSX after red NSX.

 

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Track mishaps are unfortunately inevitable when you attend enough. Not sure what happened with this guy as I was on the other side of the track at the time.

 

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Another shot form the foggy morning.

 

 

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And these yellow NSX’s will finish off the NSXPO 2011 coverage. I hope you guys enjoyed it all. Be on the look out for my ITR Expo 12 coverage to be posted soon.

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NSXPO 2011 Part 2 of 3 https://www.meilinkvision.com/2013/02/02/nsxpo-2011-part-2-of-3/ Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:14:18 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=289 Back here with part 2 of 3 of my NSXPO 2011 coverage at NJMP. It really was a sight to see with all of the NSX’s. I see them occasionally on the roads, but it’s pretty rare to see this many all together. Unlike ITR Expo, NSXPO is a five day event with the first half being a social event where the number of NSX’s in attendance is much higher and is open only to NSX owners. They do different car related activities, like this particular year some of the events included a drive through the mountains in Pennsylvania and Delaware, they attended a car museum, had a mini car show and also got to see a screening of Senna. The last two days are reserved for the track portion of the event, which has much less NSX attendance and is opened up to all makes and models.

If you missed Part 1 you can see it here.

 

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As I mentioned it yesterday’s post, it was pretty foggy early in the morning.

 

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A couple of paddock shots with everyone getting ready.

 

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Don’s ITR. I found out about the event through a post he made on the itrexpo forums.

 

 

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A bunch of shots of this green NSX. I feel that some different colored rims would work really well. I’m generally not a fan of dark colored rims on dark colored cars. I prefer contrast. Probably one of the reasons I have white rims on my PY ITR.

 

 

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Joe reeling in this 20th ani GTI.

 

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Clean black NSX from the NY area.

 

 

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Another shot of freq in his s2000.

 

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Don on the front straight coming up to turn 1.

 

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Can’t hide money.

 

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freq entering turn 1.

 

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Not a lineup you see everyday.

 

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I was in love with this porsche. It just looked great.

 

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Another NYer.

 

 

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*Insert witty comment about plate here*

 

 

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Joe coming by on the front straight.

 

 

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A yellow NSX would look great with my yellow ITR. One day I’ll own the trifecta of ITR, s2000, and NSX. I am only missing one car.

 

 

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This red NA2 was flying out there. I also think I got more pictures of this car than any other. There was just something about it that was very eye catching and photogenic.

 

 

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911 chasing down this AP1 s2000.

 

 

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Another 911 out there.

 

 

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Joe trying to escape the STI on his tail.

 

 

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A miata passing this NA1 on the outside of turn 4.

 

 

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Another couple shots of Joe.

 

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Same Miata from abovie with a hardtop.

 

 

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Don flying by.

 

 

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Joe passing this NSX on the outside.

 

 

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Another Porsche/NSX battle.

 

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The Red 911 again.

 

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Couple NSX lineups.

 

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Joe putting pressure on this NSX.

 

 

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Few more of Joe’s ITR.

 

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Stock ISF that was out there.

 

 

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A Lotus Eleven 2. I had never seen one of these before.

 

 

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Some car I had never seen before. I don’t remember what it was at the moment.

 

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Heading out for a session.

 

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Letting the motors cool down after a session.

 

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That’s it for today. Check back tomorrow for the conclusion.

 

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These aren’t the Expo Pics you’re looking for… Previously unreleased NSXPO 2011 pictures Part 1 https://www.meilinkvision.com/2013/02/01/these-arent-the-expo-pics-youre-looking-for-previously-unreleased-nsxpo-2011-pictures-part-1/ https://www.meilinkvision.com/2013/02/01/these-arent-the-expo-pics-youre-looking-for-previously-unreleased-nsxpo-2011-pictures-part-1/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:19:12 +0000 http://www.meilinkvision.com/?p=237 I know many of you are paitently waiting for the ITR Expo 12 pictures and unfortunately you’ll have to wait a little longer. However, to fill that gap I realized I never posted my NSXPO pictures anywhere. NSXPO 2011 took place in September 2011 at New Jersey Motorsports Park on their Lightening course. So I took the two hour trip with my brother, Rich, to cover the event for Honda Tuning. The original article can be seen here. I’ll be breaking the event into three posts as there are about 150 photos. For those interested NSXPO 2013 will be held at VIR this year in October. Registration has not opened up yet, but all makes and models are welcome and I’m looking to be there driving. Without further ado I give you, in no particular order, part one of the unreleased photos of NSXPO 2011 at NJMP. 

Click on an image to get a higher res version of it.

 

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Fairly stock NA1 coming around turn 1.

 

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Joe aka Doespike made the trip from upstate NY.

 

 

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Local s2ki member freq was also on hand.

 

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Another shot of the red NA1.

 

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Him giving chase to another stockish red NA1.

 

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A pair of silver NA2’s.

 

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Not too often you see a line of NSX’s on track.

 

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While I did manage to get pics of this spinout I should have gotten better. As I was watching him I had a feeling he was going to lose it, but I turned to start snapping images of cars further behind him. Then I started to hear the squeal of tires and managed to get these images. Next time I know to just listen to my gut and keep shooting the same car. If nothing happens I can get the rest on the next lap. And if you’re wondering owner and the car were just fine.

 

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As you can see in this image at times the clouds looked pretty menacing, but overall the weather held out. On the drive in I actually hit some rain in NY. Once closer to the track though it had stopped and was major foggy. I do have a few images that’ll be in the next or third part of the cars out in the fog. By the end of the day all the clouds were gone and it was sunny.

 

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Clean 911. There a few porsches out there.

 

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Interesting choice with the yellow accents on the car. I’m not much of a fan of it.

 

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Thumbs up as this NA1 heads out for one of the first sessions of the day.

 

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Getting some instruction on how to drive the track.

 

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Real clean 20th anniversary GTI that was out there.

 

 

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Another really well built NSX that was turboed. Unfortunately as he went around turn 1 here, something happened…

 

 

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If I remember correctly, the turbo blew. Not sure though, been a while since I was there. I do remember him working on the car in the paddock the rest of the day trying to get it back running.

 

 

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When the turbo blew oil spilled out all over the track. The clean up crew headed out there to clean it up best as they could.

 

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There were a couple of ITR’s out there, including mine sitting in the paddock.

 

 

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Going to leave it off with this really sick 911 coming around turn 1 after the clean up crew had finished. As you can see the corner worker had the red/yellow striped flag out which is warning the drivers that there is debris on the track. You’ll see in the upcoming pictures that there was still some sand left and the cars were leaving dust clouds as the went around turn 1 here.

 

Hope you enjoyed and look out for part 2 this weekend.

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