I was in the "SILKRIP" black NSX that Dhalsim shows in his nice pictures. He and I had pretty similar lap times, so it was great fun. He was faster in turn 9, and I could pull him a bit on the straight. In one session, I got blackflagged for an exuberant saving of the car in turn 5, while a certain red NSX later went off in turn 9. I told him that was where Kip went off in the race, and he felt better. I also praised him for going straight off instead of trying to save the car and risking a turn-over - that was pretty quick thinking. He was able to drive out of the gravel no problem (except for the front lip spoiler that had come off).
For those who followed the previous thread on tires, here are the results of my testing of the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires with skinny 205's in the rear on stock rims:
Chris and a few other experts were right - the car was twitchy! I used 32 front and 36 rear cold pressures, and the car would plow into the turn and transition to oversteer at the apex. Very entertaining but spooky. I could usually balance the car with the throttle, but, as shown by my adventure in turn 5, not always. At least turn 5 exits uphill, so that was my saving grace there I think. Laguna Seca is a good place to test this kind of thing because almost every turn (the Corkscrew excepted) is isolated. Plus the weather was perfect. The tires took a while to come up to temperature in each session but then settled in to being not sticky enough in the rear.
I guess I could use these tires in the Open Road Challenge events because of the low g forces there, but I won't use them at the track again.