I can see light at the end of the tunnel…FINALLY. We are in June now and things are starting to open back up out here in California. By next week I hear EVERYTHING will resume as it did before the pandemic happened and that will be interesting. It already feels a bit weird being out and about lately but I think we all experienced a pretty strange time in our lives and there will need to be an adjustment period before we all feel “normal” again. Car shows are also on their way back now with the Wekfest tour announcing several dates to close out the rest of 2021 so I’m excited for that. I’m so used to being on the road all the time that I do miss traveling a lot even though it can get quite taxing on the body. I think the next step in our return to normalcy will be when the international borders open-up and I can finally go back to Japan. Last I checked things weren’t going too well out there however, and with the Olympics looming, I don’t have any idea when the border will open back-up for tourism Until then, I thankfully have Yasu staying active in Osaka and regularly attending events. He recently shot these photos from a track day at Central Circuit and unloaded them on me so I could process them for the site. Like the other track day we covered, there’s no real back story to it. The guys just wanted to go have some fun and drive their Civics around Central Circuit so Yasu tagged along. It sounds like he’s been pretty bored at the shop lately so having events like this help to get him outside. Give these photos a look and come back for the rest later this week!…

Kakeru’s Milano Red EG6 Civic with Rays Gram Lights wheels, Tactical Art front lip, some canards, and a vented hood…

Black EK4 Civic from NGR sitting on front-staggered Enkei RPF1 wheels and sporting a Mugen front grille…

T. Ryuji’s No Good Racing ‘Blue Shark’ EG6 Civic on some Enkei PF01 wheels…

Takahiro Ikegami’s EG2 CR-X del Sol wearing a full JACCS-inspired WHARP RACING livery…

This silver EG Civic looked pretty good with its full cage, TEs up front, Type-X in the back, and a traditional B-series powerplant under the FRP hood…

Idemitsu Motion-themed Civic on SSR Professor wheels…

Starting to see a lot more of these Petronas liveries pop-up everywhere…

WHARP RACING EF9 Civic SiR themed in yellow, blue, and white…

Mild scrub damage on the Idemitsu-styled EG6…

Some of the Kansai’s finest represented on the back window of Kakeru’s Civic…

For these types of track days you’re likely to see a majority of Civics on the track with support vehicles that are much newer, and well, a bit pricier…

From what Yasu told me, it was pretty packed that day, more so than usual since there actually were other vehicles driving that weren’t a part of the Civic grouping…

Red Bull-styled EK9 from NO GOOD on black TEs…

Zero Fighter EG wearing a vibrant orange chrome wrap with neon yellow accents…

The new Car Make ACROSS EG6 project…

If you love your FF Hondas, Central Circuit looked like the place to be that weekend…

Your first look at one of the non-Hondas at Central Circuit with this Suzuki Kei car on 14-inch TEs…

Really aggressive front aero set-up on this INGS+1 DC5 Integra…

Some Endless big brakes lurking behind the spokes of the Enkei RPF1 wheels…

A much milder set-up in the rear with just a carbon wing and the lower half of the rear bumper cut-out on the DC5…

Some USDM vibes with this EG rocking a old school STP red/white/blue livery…

This hatchback from PROTO-TYPE had a really intricate custom roll cage inside but you’d like not notice it because of its bright blue camo livery…

S2000 from Raft Racing running the new K1 Lab front bumper with an additional front splitter…

A couple guys looking under the valve cover to check the valvetrain of the YellowFlags EG9 Ferio…

Takuya from NGR’s EK9 that you all know as the former ACROSS Civic…

Inatsugu Engineering EG in matte olive drab…

Not sure where this EK came from but it was pretty intense with the massive rear wing, wide flares, and rear bumper eliminated…

A custom exhaust is routed into the vehicle and actually exits out of the center of the chassis of the spare tire area…

Technical Auto’s EG Civic running a TRA Kyoto Pandem kit with a modified front bumper and full carbon aero set-up…

Center-exit straight-piped exhaust on the Technical Auto Civic…

EK hatchback from JOKER running the ever-popular C-West front…

This S2000 on Advan GT wheels looked solid with an Amuse front, J’s front/rear fenders and double-vented hood…

Here’s some more of that wild EK from a few photos up. Check out that front aero with the huge canards and front splitter. The fender flares make the car look a little too aggressive but it definitely runs the right size tire to necessitate all that track width…

Wrapped around the red Advan TC4 wheels are 295/30-18 Yokohama Advan rubber…

Here you can see just how wide the car is now with the front/rear flares in place with the wheels pushed-out…

A more traditional-looking Civic with this EF9 that’s caged with just a carbon hood and no additional exterior mods…

YELLOW DRAGON FD2 Civic Type R with front wide fenders and rear fkares…

Zenki DC5 Integra wearing INGS+1 aero with Volk RE30 wheels up front…

Helmet and HANS device resting on the roof of the DC5. Looks like the owner is from JOKER…

You’ll start to see some photos of R35 GTRs scattered throughout this set of photos because this was a shared track day with a big group of them…

AP1 S2000 with an integrated carbon duct in the front bumper and a set of red Volk TE37…

There was also a Subaru out there that day for some laps representing Full Stage…

Some more detailed photos of the Pandem EG from Technical Auto…

Headlight on the passenger-side has been cut-out so it can be used as an intake duct for the K-series under the hood…

K-swaps are pretty common these days in Japan, as it has been for a while now, but this one was interesting because it retained the factory power steering…

Some more aggressive front aero for you guys with four canards and a bulky splitter that’s also braced in the center for added rigidity…

This Civic is also K-powered with power steering…

Custom rear diffuser set-up integrated into the rear bumper which also features some cut-outs on each end…

As mentioned, there was a pretty big group of R35 GTRs sharing the track that day…

This particular R35 was running Auto Select carbon front over fenders which provide that added width for the TEs wrapped in Hoosier tires…

Zenki EK9 CTR in black and yellow with bronze 15-inch Volk CEs…

FD2 Civic Type R with a carbon hood, Mugen front lip, and front staggered orange SSR Type-F…

The interior of the FD2 featured a diverse colorway with bright green Recaro SR7 seats, red Sabelt harnesses, and a blue cage…

Nice combination of WEDS TC005 and Enkei NT03 wheels on this DC5…

A random Mercedes A45 AMG on bronze TEs appears in the mix…

Not sure if this Liberty Walk widebody R35 made it onto the track that day but it looked good just planted to the floor in the paddock area…

Really wish Yasu would have taken more photos of this red A80 Supra so we could get a better look at the crazy aero on it…

It wouldn’t be a circuit event in the Kansai area if you don’t see at least one FD RX-7 make an appearance. This one was running aero from both RE Amemiya and TCP Magic…

White R35 GTR utilizing the full Top Secret aero kit and popular Advan GT wheels…

If anything, the wide wing of the Liberty Walk GTR made for a nice place to hang out…

Starting to see a lot more of these Rays 57FXZ wheels throughout Japan. Yasu seems to have taken a liking to them and even has a few sets on some of his own cars at the shop…

Interesting to see Signal Auto still active in the Honda community. They had a huge presence back in the day with a couple of demo cars that they built but I didn’t know that they still had Hondas to drive on the circuit in 2021. This one might be a shop worker’s car or something that may have been built years back because it has a bit of wear and tear, but the color is signature to their brand and its good to see…

The driver even had a full Signal Auto race suit on. The front of the EK looks like it has been replaced since the paint doesn’t matches but maybe they’ll eventually get this car all one color again, especially since Signal Auto has a paint shop built into their facility…

A B-series engine still resides inside the Signal Auto EK, with a custom intake pipe with GReddy Airinx filter and a full-size Koyorad radiator…

There’s still another set of photos from this event coming but I’ll cut it off here for today. Surprised Yasu actually took so many photos since he’s usually just hanging out and chatting with friends whenever we are together at these types of things. I always appreciate him picking up the slack though since I can’t be there so a huge thanks to him for the content and to you guys for giving it a look. Stay tuned for Part 2 coming this week!!…