Honda is back. After a mediocre start to the IndyCar season, Honda has won the past four of the series’ events. Helping Honda is its luxury subsidiary Acura, which, if the next-generation NSX prototype that lapped Mid-Ohio before last Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 is anything to go by, is on the up, too. The mid-engine machine is being developed in Ohio and was running with a production-based powertrain. That would be the direct-injected V-6, with the three-motor—and a mouthful—Sport Hybrid Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive design. (Do yourself a favor and listen to the NSX’s roar in the video below.)
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In case there was any doubt Acura would race the NSX, Ted Klaus, chief engineer of Honda R&D Americas, said that “we are developing a next-generation sports car that will be equally at home on the street and on the race track, so it is natural for us to showcase the prototype vehicle here at Mid-Ohio.” We expect that the NSX will fit in the GT class of United Sports Car Racing—that’s what’s become of the merger between Grand-Am and ALMS—but whether the car will conform to stipulations for international GT2 and GT3 classes is a little murkier. Those questions, along with the thousands of other things we’re dying to know about the NSX, will be answered when the new NSX launches in 2015.
Source: CarAndDriver
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