Pull out your best countin’ fingers and make your way all the way up “11 one thousand.” That’s how long it took for the second car to cross the finish line after the Acura NSX in the Time Attack 2 class of races at the festivities surrounding the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb.
It’s been 15 years since the first The Fast and the Furious film came out. At the time, nobody really knew how it’d do. The cast was young and diverse, and the story had a niche vibe to it. Nobody expected it to be a blockbuster.
Honda didn’t want its claim that the new Civic Type R is a “race car for the road” to be unsubstantiated. So, during the past few months, it went out with a production version of the car on regular road tires and shredded five lap records.