Yama's Top Notch Photos of the FR-S at H2R

Yama took these photos at our H2R track day a few weeks ago. He got them all prettied up and uploaded to the interwebs. Here are a few of his finest photos of my FR-S on-track. Thanks for the great photos Yama!

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Off to H2R for my first Track Day in the FR-S

I am driving to San Marcos, TX with a few friends to burn some rubber at Harris Hill Road. Yama is driving his wicked Cayman R, Stuart is in his 3-series Bimmer daily driver, and I am in my new FR-S. I will have video and data later so stay tuned!

Here is a lap of H2R riding along with Yama and his Cayman R:

Porsches and Rental Karts in San Antonio

This past Saturday, Yama and I made a quick day trip to San Antonio to pick his car up from Porsche of San Antonio. They have a fantastic new facility off of 1-10 and had a quite a collection of fine Porsches including a GT2 RS, GT3 RS, several GT3s, several hardtop and droptop 911 Turbos, and also had some new 991 911s.

Here are some photos of the GTRS:

After grabbing some Japanese food for lunch, Yama and I hit up Alamo Karts on our way back to San Angelo which is an outdoor rental karting facility that uses unique propane powered karts. This also the home of Alamo Powersports and Alamo Sportscars . Clearly, the owners of this business are my kind of people - they were motorcycles, racecars, street kit cars, shifter karts, and their own go-kart track. Here are some pictures of their facility:

 

 Here is some onboard video from Alamo Karts:

Mr. Yama's Cayman R

My buddy Yama recently purchased a new automobile....

It is a 2012 Porsche Cayman R with 6-speed MT, Sports Chrono package, Carbon fiber sport bucket seat, and a really nice Alcantara steering wheel. It puts out 330 HP at 7,400 while making it's trademark Porsche flat-six engine note. I was lucky enough to get to drive into work a few days ago....and I truly understand why there are so many Porsche fanatics out there. It is his dream car and all of our friends are happy to bum rides in his fancy Yellow Taxi anyday!

Here is an interior shot:


New owner with Cayman R:


Yama and I will be installing a hitch on his Cayman R soon so he can bring some Goodyear R-Compound tires with him on his track day adventures at Harris Hill Road in San Marcos, TX. Yama's current personal best of around a 1:29s lap will be in danger when he brings the new whip to HHR next month!

Das Nurburgring gets a Visit from Hawk Yama

My friend Yama recently took a dream trip to the Nurburgring. He ripped it up in a Suzuki Swift and a 3-series BMW from Rent-4-Ring and Rent-a-Racecar. He had a blast and took some awesome GoPro videos which I embedded below...

Here is Yama practicing on Gran Turismo 5. He said the realism was fantastic and it really helped him learn the track except for how bumpy the braking zones were.