So the long running participation of the NSX in Super GT (remember the JGTC?) is officially ending on Nov. 7th of this year. Super GT is cancelling MR cars as an allowable platform (FR only).

Honda says they'll enter their line-up's only remaining sporting automobile in 2010 - a Fit w/ a c32b.

http://supergt.net/supergt/news/2009n/gt091023001.pdf

 

Link is blocked for me but I wonder what the rationale was for that decision? Unless SuperGT/Honda knows something we don't: FM-layout NSX replacement isn't really dead.

 

I smell Toyota at work here. They seem to have a strong influence in all motorsports and try to shift the balance of power in their direction whenever possible. This new formula would be advantageous for their new supercar, and Honda has nothing to counter it.

I think the S2000 would have been a better choice. BTW, where does it say that they're entering a c32 Fit?

 

That was a joke. To expound, the idea of Honda's only car w/ any sporting aspirations, the Fit, is so ludricous that entering it in Super GT would be considered a joke.

 

they can probably enter a super s2000? i doubt theyll ressurect the nsx replacement just for this...

 

Resurrection or yet another tease?

http://www.7tune.com/new-super-gt-honda-confirmed/

 

That'd be sooooo awesome f it pans out to be true...it would be a step closer to getting it into production

 

thats rediculous.

so that means all the porche's are disqualified too.

 

they could always bring back the 944 :p

but yeah...Ferraris will be out too, unless they run the California or something

 

No, the 911s compete in the GT300 class so they are not subject to the latest regulation.

 

FWIW, the NSX-GT won the last race of the seaon. Not a bad way to go out.

 

honda comin out with sh-awd front mount hybrid nsx 2+2 seater.producin about 499hp Dohc i-Vtec for 2012.with a price tag a lil over the current 1..104k

 

proof..link?

 

well sucks for the MR chassis.

maybe honda will finally have a non roadster FR car? ha when hell freezes over

 

so does GM with the rule changes since the c5r that have been helpful to the vette.

 

"Stillborn Honda NSX Will Race
Plans are moving forward for Honda to reveal its new V8 racing car in Japan, the HSV 010.

While the programme hasn’t been fully buttoned down yet, as we hear it, this new car – loosely based on Honda’s axed 'next NSX' project – is tipped to appear in January but will definitely be for track only.

Honda put a lot of time and work into developing a new front-engined V10 super-coupe, to go head to head with the Lexus LFA.

The car was seen testing and was close to being signed off when Honda pulled the plug in winter 2008 as the economic crisis hit, around the same time Honda announced it was quitting Formula One.

Sources say Honda’s plan was to launch the new V10 super-coupe as the Acura Sports, its launch timed to coincide with the debut of Acura, Honda’s luxury dealer channel, in Japan.

In the end, both projects got canned, but not before Honda put quite a bit of work into developing a separate, pure race version of the Acura Sports for Super GT, Japan’s hugely popular tintop race series.

The Super GT version of the Acura Sports would carry the road car’s silhouette but underneath it would be totally different, with an all-new carbonfibre chassis and swapping the road car’s 5.0-litre V10 – good for 500bhp plus – for a race-bred 3.4-litre V8 to meet the new Super GT regs.

Those regs would also see the road car’s high-performance, rear-biased Super Handling 4WD system exchanged for a simpler, more robust rear drive layout, again to meet Super GT regs.

Honda will build a limited run of race cars to meet the requirements of the Super GT teams and the 3.4-litre V8 will come across from Japan’s Formula Nippon single-seater series.

It’s a 90-degree V8 with 3400cc capacity, rev-limited to 10,300rpm and good for 600bhp plus. For Super GT duty, the engine will have to be significantly reworked for a more endurance spec. Super GT races are longer and harder than Formula Nippon and each engine also has to last for four races.

The V8 engine will also be air-restricted to 500bhp to meet the regs in Super GT’s top GT500 class, but will lose the rev limiter.

Honda, it’s believed, is keen to present the HSV 010 as an all-new car, and an unveiling seems likely in Japan before the end of January."

 

the nsx in Super GT will be called the Honda Sports Velocity or HSV.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/21/n...ce-in-supergt/



The Honda NSX might be gone, but it's set to live on as the HSV-10 GT in Japan's SuperGT championship.

Although we don't have an official release or specs yet, we do have the image above and some preliminary details on the HSV-10 GT or Velocity Sports Honda. Built to the 2010 GT500 regulations, the new front/mid-engine racer from Honda is packing a 500+ hp, 3.4-liter V8 and sending power through the same Ricardo sequential manual gearbox fitted to the 2010 SuperGT cars from Nissan and Toyota. Underneath all that glorious carbon fiber is the same chassis Honda's been working on (originally as an NSX replacement) for the last two years. The SuperGT season opener is scheduled for March 20 and 21 of 2010, but we expect more details and a host of high-res images to hit soon. Stay tuned...

 

Thats a good lookin' racecar I hope they leave it flat black...

 

niiiiiice

 

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

yeah!

 

can't say I'm entirely thrilled the MR platform is done with....but nonetheless, this is great news!