Honda HSV-010 GT

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Honda HSV-010 GT

Honda Racing has announced that the Honda HSV-010 GT will serve as a replacement to the NSX in the Japan Super GT Race Series. Running in the GT500 class, the new model uses a 3.4-liter V8 engine, as required by the racing series rules.

Although the Super GT normally requires racing vehicles to be based on production cars, there are exceptions to the rule. As previously reported, one such exception is the use of a production-ready car, even if the car is not in production.

With the economy's particularly harsh effect on the automotive industry, it is doubtful Honda would release a new high-end sports car this year. This is especially true with Honda's corporate push to focus on more mass-marketable vehicles, and less on niche-market vehicles that are purchased in small numbers.

Honda's new racer is based on a recent NSX prototype. The Honda HSV-010 GT will debut during the March 20-21 season opening race weekend at Suzuka Circuit in south-central Japan.

http://www.worldcarfans.com/10912222...ment-in-japans

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Honda HSV-010 GT #02

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HSV-010 鈴鹿テスト ヘアピン1

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVEOGBellg[/ame]


HSV-010 鈴鹿テスト ヘアピン2

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPffBMjwo2I[/ame]


HSV-010 鈴鹿テスト S字

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6PBFNEC6Sw[/ame]


HONDA HSV-010 GT 鈴鹿TEST

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCqY-vAX4EA[/ame]

Here’s a 10 minute video!

[Roentgen]

Here comes another batmobile.

[Kitdy]

carrera, where did you get these videos and pictures from?

[W.R.]

Hmm, it seems to have an rx-7's rear end, but I don't really care when it moves and sounds like that. :') Absolutely fantastic.

[Cobrafan427]

Those corners at Suzuka are nothing to sneeze at, this car is flyyyyying

[Dino Scuderia]

Hard to tell what it would look like in street form....but it does have a very 350/370Z like roof and tail section.

[NSXType-R]

It looks very much like the canceled supercar that Honda was about to build.

I think someone said it was based on it?

Thanks a lot for the contribution, right after Christmas nonetheless.

[LeonOfTheDead]

It looks very much like the canceled supercar that Honda was about to build.

I think someone said it was based on it?

Thanks a lot for the contribution, right after Christmas nonetheless.

It should, by the rules, be based on a production ready project. Mainly, the central monocoque should be the same as in the road car, but that doesn't imply the actually working chassis is the same at the end of the day. Mercedes-Benz did a pretty good job with the 1996 C-Klasse in the DTM championship, but I don't know if rules in the SuperGT allows for such solution (a double monocoque basically, the second one being made in carbon fiber).

[NSXType-R]

It should, by the rules, be based on a production ready project. Mainly, the central monocoque should be the same as in the road car, but that doesn't imply the actually working chassis is the same at the end of the day. Mercedes-Benz did a pretty good job with the 1996 C-Klasse in the DTM championship, but I don't know if rules in the SuperGT allows for such solution (a double monocoque basically, the second one being made in carbon fiber).

No wonder Kitdy was rather annoyed that Honda bent the rules. The supercar was production ready, it's not like it will be produced though.

[LeonOfTheDead]

No wonder Kitdy was rather annoyed that Honda bent the rules. The supercar was production ready, it's not like it will be produced though.

Or perhaps Honda has just underlined the pointless link between these cars and the supposed production versions they are based on.

[carreragt10]

I think someone said it was based on it?

The cars of the Super GT GT500 and GT300 are not required to use the chassis of the road car, so we find many prototypes GT bodywork; The chassis is a tubular structure of chrome molybdenum steel alloy of high technology used today in almost all categories of motorsport, in the carrier find a crib in carbon fiber safety for the pilot q serves as reinforcement of the same chassis.

[NSXType-R]

The cars of the Super GT GT500 and GT300 are not required to use the chassis of the road car, so we find many prototypes GT bodywork; The chassis is a tubular structure of chrome molybdenum steel alloy of high technology used today in almost all categories of motorsport, in the carrier find a crib in carbon fiber safety for the pilot q serves as reinforcement of the same chassis.

Gotcha.

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HONDA HSV-010 GT 鈴鹿TEST Part2

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfdGLbPcyI[/ame]