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Daily DRVN #121 / Time Has Been Kind to This NSX-R
R is for Reserve Not Met + Between the Rearview and the Horizon + WRC to U.S.A + Logitech McLaren Challenge + Aston Martin Accepts Coinpayments + Fast & Furious Turns 25 at Cannes
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May 09, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
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In this edition we bring you an NSX-R auction that fell short of the car’s true value. A lesson on living in the cockpit, not the rearview or horizon, and the hottest headlines, from WRC’s States-side trajectory, The Logitech McLaren G Challenge, Aston Martin’s crypto collab, and the Fast & Furious 25th anniversary at Cannes.
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📰 Dream Car Classified / NSX-Reserve Not Met
Presented by RevHard Motors
By Josh Juhasz
Born from Ayrton Senna–honed development laps at Suzuka…
The NSX‑R was Honda’s no‑excuses answer to Porsche and Ferrari in the early 90s—a razor‑edged remix of the already legendary NSX, built only for Japan and only for drivers who cared more about lap time than leather.
Engineers stripped roughly 265 pounds, deleted luxury fluff, cranked up spring rates, blueprinted the C30A V6, and ditched power steering and traction control to create one of the purest analog driver’s cars ever to wear a red Honda badge.
This 1993 NSX‑R is one of just 483 NA1 Type R examples, finished in Neutron White Pearl over red Alcantara Recaros, and imported from its original Japanese owner to Huntington Beach in 2025.
The mid‑mounted 3.0‑liter V6 sends power through a close‑ratio 5‑speed and 4.235 final drive with LSD, with stiffer suspension, unassisted steering, four‑wheel vented discs, and an aftermarket exhaust (OEM parts included) backing up the look.
Showing 124k kilometers (~77k miles) and equipped with rare optional A/C and cassette stereo, it just hammered for 243,000 USD, falling short of the reserve price—but when you see what they can truly fetch, it makes perfect sense.
Market Snapshot
The NA1 NSX‑R has quietly entered blue‑chip territory, with recent sales clustering in the mid‑$300k range and the best cars pushing into the mid‑$400ks.
Over just the last two years, four public sales have averaged about $326k, with a high of $450,679 and a low outlier at $104k for a rougher example, underscoring how brutally condition and originality now drive price.
With supply capped at sub‑500 cars and global JDM money chasing the top 10 percent, expect museum‑grade NA1 NSX‑Rs to keep creeping toward $600k while solid driver‑grade examples remain one of the safest long‑term places to park Type R money.
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🧠 Buster’s Based Metatations / Between the Rearview and the Horizon
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By @Rext_Racer
Most people misread time because they’re staring in the wrong direction.
They either live glued to the rearview, replaying every mistake, missed chance, and “should’ve been me” moment until the present disappears. Or they lock their eyes on the horizon, obsessing over the future so hard they forget the only control they actually have is happening right now, with both hands on the wheel.
You’ve doubtless heard the saying:
“People overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can accomplish in ten.”
One year feels close enough to panic over. Ten years feels far enough to ignore. So people try to force a decade of results into twelve months, burn themselves out, then drift through the long stretch where the real transformation could’ve happened.
Playboy, that’s bad driving.
Augustine had a deeper way of seeing time. In Confessions, he wrestled with the strange nature of past, present, and future. The past is held in memory. The future is held in expectation. The present is held in attention.
That’s the key.
You don’t possess the past except through memory.
You don’t possess the future except through hope, fear, and imagination.
The only place you can actually steer is the present.
But that doesn’t mean you ignore the past or future. That would be dumb. You use them properly.
Driving teaches this better than a lecture ever could.
You don’t drive by staring only in the rearview. That’s how you end up wrapped around a guardrail, still arguing with something that already happened. But you also don’t drive by staring only at the horizon. That’s how you miss the brake lights, the slick patch, the idiot drifting into your lane, the corner arriving faster than expected.
A real driver takes in all the inputs.
The rearview tells you what’s behind.
The road ahead tells you what’s coming.
But your craft happens here — in the living present.
Steering input. Brake pressure. Throttle timing. Gear choice. Line adjustment.
That’s life.
Memory should inform you, not imprison you. Vision should guide you, not hypnotize you. The present is where both become useful. It’s where regret becomes correction. It’s where ambition becomes action. It’s where the ten-year build gets assembled one clean input at a time.
And sometimes, time needs more room than your ego wants to give it.
Look at a first-gen Honda NSX-R. Early on, maybe its value was misunderstood. Maybe some people saw “just a Honda” and thought the hype was too rich. But 33 years later? Different story. Now it stands as one of the purest driver’s cars ever made, and in some cases, more valuable than Ferraris from the same era.
That didn’t happen because everyone understood it in year one.
It happened because time revealed what was really there.
So don’t overdrive the first lap.
Don’t live trapped in the mirror.
Don’t hallucinate the horizon.
Read the past. Aim toward the future. Drive the present.
That’s where your life changing decade gets built.
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WRC’s Next Stage / The Great U.S. Rally Comeback
The WRC’s next “big push” isn’t about changing the cars, it’s about changing where they race.
With technical stability locked in for Rally1 hybrids through 2026, the championship is now laser‑focused on cracking new markets—most notably a long‑planned Rally USA based out of Tennessee that WRC Promoter is directly funding as part of a multi‑year deal, pending final FIA calendar approval.
The idea is clear: keep costs predictable for teams while using events like a U.S. gravel round to expand beyond the traditional European core and turn rallying into a truly global show again after nearly 40 years away from America.
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Hot‑Lap Your Way to McLaren Glory in the New Le Mans Ultimate G Challenge
The Logitech McLaren G Challenge is back for 2026, but this time the world’s biggest “race from your bedroom” series is ditching Forza Motorsport and going full endurance nerd on Le Mans Ultimate.
Players hot‑lap fixed‑setup McLarens across six WEC tracks in time‑trial qualifiers, with the fastest earning their way into regional finals and a global showdown for more than $35,000 in prizes, including a full sim‑rig and McLaren VIP experiences.
It’s a neat escalation: the challenge that once lived in an Xbox sandbox is now plugged directly into the official 24 Hours of Le Mans sim, with custom McLaren liveries turning every session into a mini esports broadcast.
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Snag a Super Car with What You Got in Your Wallet / Inside Aston Martin’s CoinPayments Collab
Aston Martin just took a very on‑brand step toward the future: during Miami Grand Prix week, the company announced it’s working with crypto payment firm CoinPayments to figure out how you could one day buy a Vantage or DBX with digital assets instead of wire transfers.
The project will test whether crypto‑powered rails can handle high‑value, cross‑border luxury car purchases while still ticking all the boxes on security, compliance, and scalability—basically, can you move seven‑figure cars around the world as easily as sending USDC.
It builds on CoinPayments’ recent alliance with duPont Registry’s supercar marketplace and its existing partnership with the Aston Martin Aramco F1 team, turning the paddock sponsorship decal into a genuine experiment in Web3‑age car buying.
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Quarter‑Mile Classic, Midnight Run / The Fast and the Furious Hits Cannes at 25
“The Fast and the Furious” is about to trade warehouse meet‑ups for the Croisette: the original 2001 film has been selected for a 25th‑anniversary Midnight Screening in the Cannes Classics lineup on May 13, at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
Cast members including Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and producer Neal H. Moritz, along with Meadow Walker representing her late father, will be on hand as Cannes briefly turns into a shrine to LA street‑racing culture and the $7‑billion franchise it spawned.
It’s equal parts nostalgia lap and brand flex: a once scrappy B‑movie about undercover cops and quarter‑mile runs now getting the same red‑carpet treatment usually reserved for arthouse darlings, just as Universal lines up the next installment, Fast Forever, for 2028.
⭐️ Celebrity Car Collection Showcase /
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By @Ironmaiden1541
Gordon Ramsay doesn’t just plate perfection in the kitchen—his garage is a full-course feast of hypercars, track weapons, and ’80s TV icons.
This week’s Celebrity Car Collection Showcase dives into his ~94-car, $16M lineup, from the full Holy Trinity to a McLaren Senna he literally kissed at Brands Hatch.
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