What would you do for those who found yourself with a couple of billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Superyachts, hypercars, private jets, the entire above? Well how about cutting a mountain in half and constructing considered one of the world’s most exclusive race tracks. That’s what Cornes & Co did here in Japan, and with that, we’re left with The Magarigawa Club.
The Magarigawa Club is just not hot off the press news, it’s actually been open for slightly over 18 months now, but because it’s doors have opened, I had yet to have the prospect to go to and see what the fuss was all about.
That was until RennCurator invited me out for a couple of days of automotive guys paradise. The predominant reason for my trip out to Magarigawa was to cover his newly delivered Prodrive P25, I covered that have here. But Prodrive aside, there was so much more happening on the circuit that deserves its own look.
For the unfamiliar, Magarigawa is an ultra-luxurious club nestled within the hills of Chiba, just over an hour out of central Tokyo. The club comprises of all styles of amenities, including a bar, cigar lounge, infinity edge pool, restaurant, sim room, spa, gym and 10 villas to accommodate those lucky enough to remain. All these amenities are a number of the nicest rooms you’ll ever step into, with the experience easily comparable to a 7 star hotel. I actually shot these pans from the bedroom balcony of the club’s predominant villas…
But there’s one stark difference between The Magarigawa Club and a 7 star hotel, and that’s the three.5km world class, Hermann Tilke designed track surrounding it.
Just upon entering the grounds, you’ve a 7 minute drive from the front gate to the clubhouse. The sheer engineering feats of constructing a circuit into the mountain is apparent with retaining partitions taller than apartment blocks and elevation changes enough to make your ears pop.
But enough concerning the venue, and more about a number of the cars that RennCurator and his friends had brought out for the week. Starting with RennCurators very own Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport 25.
Mark has actually done a full write up on the nitty gritty of the CS25 previously, so I wont ramble on the specifics, but I can confirm this Manthey beast is price every little bit of hype it gets.
Paired with a venue like Magarigawa, it’s almost unattainable to take a foul photo of the the CS25, and the on target performance was there to match its beauty.
The CS25 was almost all the time the fastest automotive on target every day at Magarigawa, and whilst I can’t expose what its lap time competition was, I can say there was some very worthy opponents.
Alongside RennCurator’s CS25 and previously covered P25, his HKS GR86 was in attendance. This is definitely the precise automotive all of us saw make its debut on the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon, HKS’s first iteration of their full package street and circuit builds. Since this automotive’s first debut, I’ve also had the prospect to cover HKS’s second complete GR86 and its Tsukuba circuit shakedown.
RennCurator’s friends didn’t come empty handed, brining some more JDMs to the typically super and hypercar exclusive pits, within the likes of a GRMN Yaris, TOM’s GR86 and NA2 NSX Type S.
But there was one other NSX that had all of my attention.
So far as tuned NSX’s go, this might need to be the most effective I’ve come across in Japan. Based on a NA1 Type R, the automotive had undergone a front NA2 conversion in addition to had an entire ITB setup bolted on.
Contained in the automotive followed suit with all of the instrumentation harking back to peak mid 2000’s NSX tuning. This automotive deserves it’s own deep dive nevertheless so I’ll save the specifics for its own feature.
The Magarigawa Club is one of the breathtaking places I actually have ever been in my life, wrapped amongst a world class circuit and being driven by a number of the world’s best cars makes this an experience any automotive guy should add to their bucket list, right under the $200,000+ membership fee…
Alec Pender
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