Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced to prepare the Honda Civic Type R-GT Concept car which will be used in the 2024 Super GT Series racing event. This candidate for the latest racing car from Honda was introduced for the first time in the world at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon event.
This candidate for the latest racing car from Honda has received a very good reception where this car won the prestigious "Concept Car Category Grand Prize" award at the 2023 Tokyo International Custom Car Contest event at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon event.
The newest racing car candidate from Honda will be developed by Honda Racing Co., Ltd (HRC). For the first time, the Type R model will be used by Honda in the Super GT Series next year. The Honda Civic Type R-GT Concept car was developed from the latest generation Honda Civic Type R model which was introduced in the second half of 2022. Apart from the 2024 Super GT Series race, the latest generation Honda Civic Type R will also begin to be used in the Touring Car race. Series (TCR) in 2023. Honda will introduce the latest generation of the Honda Civic TCR for use in the 2023 FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) race.
Koji Watanabe, President and CEO of HRC said "We are proud to use the Type R brand for the first time for our newest race car candidate, the Honda Honda Civic Type R-GT Concept which will begin to be used in the Super GT Series race in 2024. We are also very pleased Thank you, where our newest race car candidate won this prestigious award at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2023 event.”
In early 2023, Honda through Honda Racing Co., Ltd (HRC). It has also announced a racing program in 2023 in which Honda will continue to strengthen its motorsport operations and capabilities by continuing to participate in various international level four-wheel and two-wheel racing championships.
Shinji Aoyama, Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Honda Motor co., Ltd. said, “Since its founding, Honda has grown as a company with a passion for racing and has developed its resources and technology through racing. Honda's "racing spirit" has become the foundation of Honda's commitment to pursuing dreams and achieving victory. In this respect, motorsport is a central embodiment of Honda's corporate culture. This year, Honda will continue to strengthen its image in terms of racing through various racing activities, both four-wheeled and two-wheeled, on the international stage.
To meet the expectations of motorsport fans and Honda fans and Honda consumers around the world, Honda will continue to devote energy to motorsport through HRC which now integrates motorcycle and car racing activities. With this change, Honda will set off on motorsport with the aim of establishing itself as a stronger racing brand, on which Honda will build a strong and sustainable foundation as part of Honda's DNA.
In Formula 1 racing in the 2023 season, Honda and HRC will still supply Red Bull Powertrains (RBPT) power units for the Red Bull Group, namely the Red Bull Racing team and also Scuderia AlphaTauri in the 2023 F1 racing season. The Red Bull Racing team will launch its newest racing car on February 3 2023 while the Scuderia AlphaTauri team will launch on February 11 2023. Honda and the Red Bull Racing team have achieved success by winning the Formula 1 world title in 2021 and 2022.
In addition, Honda will continue to support young talents from Japan who have the desire to fight and compete in world-class auto racing championships through the Honda Performance Development Academy Program. Honda is determined to return to winning seed racers in the FIA Formula 2 Championship (F2) where Ayumu Iwasa will return to racing in the 2023 racing season. Apart from F2, Honda also hopes to recruit excellent racers from other races, following in the footsteps of Yuki Tsunoda who has competed in F1 with the Scuderia AlphaTauri team since 2021.
In addition, Honda through Honda Performance Development (HPD) will continue its participation in the IMSA SportsCar Championship racing event where Honda uses the Acura ARX-05 race car in the Daytona Prototype International (DPI) class and the Acura NSX GT3 Evo in the Daytona GT class (GTD Pro / GTD). In addition, Honda and HPD will also continue to supply Honda racing engines for 6 teams (17 cars in total) that will compete in the IndyCar® Series in 2023.
In Japan, Honda will still participate in the Super GT racing event where Honda is determined to win back the title in the GT500 class by relying on the Honda NSX-GT Type S race car. Japanese Super Formula Championship. In 2022, Honda managed to win a double championship in this race through Tomoki Nojiri and Team Mugen.
