Honda caused quite a stir when it revealed a CR-V Hybrid Racer fitted with an IndyCar engine and hybrid system 🚀 Motorsport_Ed got to ride with former IndyCar racer James Hinchcliffe at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Here's what happened 📽️
The car is a one-off build – which looks like a reimagining of a Group B rally car – and was conceptualised by the engineering brainboxes at Honda Performance Development in Santa Clarita, California.
At the back, it’s pretty much an entire IndyCar rear end in terms of engine, suspension and gearbox, with the hybrid’s supercapacitors and motor generator unit bolted on to the back. To keep the race organisers happy, he’s not taking this mad machine to its top speed, but Hinch is still booting it for all its worth through the gears to fourth and then cruising along Shoreline Drive and the back straight.
Earlier, the Canadian had checked with HPD’s Steve Gough on the weight of The Beast and is told “3000 pounds but we’ve got more horsepower”. Hinch adds: “The IndyCars are pretty heavy, and of course this is heavier, but when you’re out of the corner and get the power down, it’s amazing – this thing really gets up and goes.”
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