Civic Type R Limited Edition is WTCR Safety Car again in 2021

Honda has underlined its long-expression determination to Earth Touring Motor vehicle level of competition by yet again agreeing to deliver the Civic Kind R Minimal Edition as the Official Safety Motor vehicle of the WTCR – FIA Earth Touring Motor vehicle Cup for 2021.

It is the 2nd year in a row that Honda has been the series’ Official Safety Motor vehicle Spouse, and indicates Honda will remain at the forefront of both safety and level of competition in what will be the 10th consecutive season in which it and its Consumer Racing teams have been included at Earth Touring Motor vehicle level.

The Civic Kind R Minimal Edition was a person of two new additions to the Kind R line-up in 2020, along with the Activity Line, and was unveiled at the dwelling of Honda’s long-expression motorsport husband or wife, JAS Motorsport.

The purest variation of the iconic hatchback manufactured to date, the car or truck was designed in retaining with Kind R custom with on-keep track of overall performance as the key target.

In addition to capabilities that optimise on-keep track of overall performance, these kinds of as lightweight 20″ solid BBS alloy wheels, Michelin Pilot Activity Cup-2 tyres, 2-piece floating brake discs and modified dampers, the Minimal Edition’s stripped-back interior contributes to a pounds reduction of 47kg in comparison to the GT-specification Kind R.

It has retained the Kind R’s powerful 2.-litre VTEC Turbo motor, which has a peak ability output of 320PS at six,500rpm and peak torque of 400Nm. -100km/h (-62mph) is realized in 5.seven seconds.

The Minimal Edition also capabilities the exact same sector-foremost lively safety and driver-assistive technologies that aided the Civic vary – which includes the common Kind R on which the Honda Civic Kind R TCR racer is primarily based – gain best ratings in Euro NCAP exams.

For 2021 the Kind R Minimal Edition WTCR Safety Motor vehicle will sport an unchanged livery, underpinned by the putting Sunlight Yellow colour in which the entrance-wheel travel hatchback was manufactured obtainable to prospects.

The livery was encouraged by the aggressive philosophy guiding the manufacturing automobile and is the operate of Belgian artist Vanuf, who has made a variety of formal liveries for Honda’s touring car or truck programmes.

Xavier Gavory, WTCR Director for Eurosport Activities, the WTCR promoter, claimed: “We are incredibly delighted that Honda has extended its determination as Official Safety Motor vehicle Spouse to the WTCR – FIA Earth Touring Motor vehicle Cup with the Civic Kind R Minimal Edition for 2021. The Civic Kind R is a amazing fit as the Official Safety Motor vehicle not only because of its iconic standing, but also because its features – which contain its fantastic safety ranking, affordability and dynamic physical appearance – fit properly with the ideas upon which the WTCR was founded.”