Honda has achieved plenty of touring car success over the years - it expects that to continue with the new FL5 TCR 🏁
Those with good memories will know that Honda and JAS Motorsport have a long and illustrious history when it comes to motorsport, all the way back to Super Touring Accords in the late-90s BTCC. As technical partners since 1998, Honda and JAS have competed together in tin tops across the globe, as well as rallying and GT3. If not a dream team then they aren’t far off, and so you wouldn’t bet against more success with its latest race car., following previous racers based on the FK2 and FK8.
Honda says JAS developed Civics have won 397 races and 74 championships, 38 of them major and 23 with the FK8. It was TCR Model of the Year in 2019 and 2020, and enjoyed its greatest season for results this year, winning 76 races and 19 championships across the world in 2022. So it’s done pretty well.
This new car will somehow aim to improve on the old one with a revised aero package for more downforce, better braking and a ‘new chassis for enhanced cornering stability’. Which seems odd given the road car is an evolution of what came before, though perhaps enough has changed for it to be classed as new. The engine is the same 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo as found in the civilian Type R, though don’t expect loads more power - a TCR car typically makes about 350hp.
The driver hasn’t been forgotten in all these upgrades, either; Mads Fischer, JAS Motorsports TCR Project Leader, said: “The new Type R TCR features significant enhancements in chassis, engine, suspension, and braking, while we've used the extensive knowledge gained through the NSX GT3 and Civic Type R TCR Customer Racing Programs to create our safest and most driver-friendly cockpit yet.
To be built in JAS Motorsport’s facility in Italy, the new FL5 Civic Type R TCR car will once more compete across the globe; its North American debut will be in the 2023 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, with three teams already lined up to race it from April. Honda Performance Development’s Commercial Manager John Whiteman added: “Being an icon and a globally homologated proper race car makes it no surprise that the TCR is one of HPD's most popular cars.
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