The increasing cold is sending shivers down the spine for most members in the Northern Hemisphere and we wouldn’t just attribute that to the cold. It is nearing the end of driving season and for some the driving season may have already ended. This is the time to jack the car up and crawl under [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2011’
In Memoriam: Dan Wheldon (1978 – 2011)
S2KI mourns the loss of Dan Wheldon, two-time Indy 500 winner and 2005 Series Champion, this afternoon at the 2011 IndyCar Series finale at Las Vegas. His untimely loss is a shock to the entire racing community, and fans of racing world-wide. Several S2KI members were also present at this race to participate in [...]
S2000s in the News: IndyCar Parade Laps, Fall 2011 BMT and More!
Select Honda S2000 owners from Southern California, the Bay Area, Arizona, and Nevada will be participating in the parade laps for the IZOD IndyCar World Championships race in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 16. As part of the festivities, thirty-five S2000 owners from the group will get to chaperone an IndyCar driver around the course [...]
Singapore S2000 Owners Gather for a Mega-Meet
Here in sunny Singapore, with a total population of only 5 million, the S2000 is a rare sight with latest head count estimates putting the total number of S2000s at just under 50. Most of the owners, like myself, generally meet online to chat and discuss about tracking or modifications, but meets and drives have [...]
Honda Performance Driving at The Mid-Ohio School
The Mid-Ohio course is well-known to all of us as the place where our members and their Honda S2000′s participate in the parade laps for the Honda Indy 200 (IndyCar) race with the drivers riding shotgun. This event has become a tradition for the Ohio S2000 owners. Little known though is the fact that the [...]
Car-munication Part Two – The Proper Use of Lights
It used to be that cars didn’t have lights, then they had a couple, and now they have a lot. How they function and their purpose has changed over the years, so here’s a little history. High beams used to be the norm in driving. There was so little traffic you would drive and [...]
Car-munication Part One – When to Honk?
The art of communicating with your car is frankly a dying art; people can’t even be bothered with turn signals anymore, but it used to be the case that everyone used the lights on their vehicles to communicate with one another. It’s part of a lost art of driving, so here’s a refresher or lesson [...]
