Acura, Honda's luxury brand in the States, will take to the 'Race in the Clouds' with new Integra and NSX.
June. Pikes Peak inspires so many competitors because it’s a crazy blast. Really crazy, when you do the numbers: 12.42 miles, encompassing 156 sweeps and turns that test car and driver the limit.
The Honda of America Racing Team will field a TLX Integra Type S, which is a little more extreme. It adds a larger turbo, more cooling and re-tuned mapping on the engine side, along with a one-inch drop in ride height and a 272kg weight reduction – in-part thanks to carbon/ composite panels. HART’s other effort is based on the Intergra 1.
The star of the show is Acura NSX Type S Active Aero Study, though. This comes from Crazy New, which is the skunkworks division of HART that has a mission: ‘to dream up and build unique concepts before they're funnelled into the mainstream HART race team programs,’ and ‘serves as a creative playground for Honda associates’. The idea being that the things they learn there will feed into future Honda and Acura products.
The NSX Type S, nicknamed ‘Yamabiko’ after mythical Japanese mountain god, is all about aero. You can probably see that to be fair. This was perfected at the new Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio wind tunnel – claimed to be the most advanced in the world. It has both active and passive aero additions. The active side includes an active rear wing that acts as a drag reduction system on the faster parts of the course and an airbrake during heavy braking.
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