Acura's own California design studio was responsible for penning the ARX-06 Le Mans Daytona hybrid race car that will compete in the new GTP class in 2023.
For the upcoming 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship season, the series’ premier Daytona Prototype International racing class will be rechristened Grand Touring Prototype. The name harkens back to the sanctioning body’s 1981-1993 golden age, better known as “GTP.”
This rear-drive LMDh racer is powered by a purpose-built twin-turbo 2.4-liter V-6 from Honda Performance Development backed by the aforementioned series-mandated hybrid hardware. A standardized Bosch Motor Generator Unit lives inside of an Xtrac 6-speed sequential gearbox backed by a Williams Advanced Engineering battery. Output is quoted at 500 kw, or 680 hp, to meet series targets.
Acura officials say the GTP class' parameters have been designed to attract new competitors, in part by enabling teams to style entrants that look more like automakers' road-going models. We're not sure what Acura street car looks like this, but we dig the ARX-06's getup nevertheless. Its appearance comes courtesy of the Acura Design Studio in Los Angeles, having gone through a similar design process as the automaker's production models.
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