NSX club meeting Sunday Jan.9, 2000

A foggy morning greeted NSX drivers when they arrived at my house in Windermere for the drive to St. Petersburg.  The hit of the morning was the arrival of Ernie Wilding in his new S2000.  Rick Cuevas has now found his dream car....wait, I thought it was an NSX!   Then Gary Jensen showed up with his new Zanardi.   Awesome.

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Following a crisp drive through wonderful twisties our Orlando group met up with Joe Parotta and Scott McKay on the Tampa causeway, blasted through the remnants of morning fog for an on-time arrival at the Pier and lunch at the Columbia restaurant.  The tourists crowded the 15 NSXs on display.  It was a visual spectacle.     

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~ce2 (2).jpg (237081 bytes) Gary Jensen brought his brand new Zanardi NSX

~ce1 (2).jpg (244116 bytes) The C-NSX still gets noticed!

~ce3 (2).jpg (245510 bytes) new member John Butz and his white NSX

~ce4 (2).jpg (233255 bytes) the hit of the day! ...Ernie Wilding's silver S2000

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After a delicious lunch it was off to race each other at the Mokart indoor track!  Wow, what an experience. 

~ce7 (2).jpg (213381 bytes)~ce8 (2).jpg (219713 bytes)~ce9 (2).jpg (212098 bytes) the NSXs lined up at Mokart

~ce12 (2).jpg (288627 bytes)~ce17 (2).jpg (262106 bytes)~ce18 (2).jpg (261551 bytes)~ce16 (1).jpg (256043 bytes) the action is a BLUR!

It was a tight race for first place but the winner is Greg McCarthy!!

1st place    Greg McCarthy    Tampa     48.91

2nd place    Bruce Pemberton  Orlando  48.98

3rd place    Scott McKay    St. Petersburg    49.28

4th place    Gary Jensen   Orlando      49.35

5th place    Joel Janco     Key Largo     49.40

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CONGRATULATIONS to all the NSX club winners.  Looks like we'll have a rematch in the near future (we can't have the Tampa/St. Petersburg guys beating the Orlando folks...).

Our next meeting is planned for Saturday Feb.19, 2000 in Orlando....see you all there!