Honda’s customers can now race the NSX GT3 across the world
Honda has launched a global customer racing programme, to come into effect next year.
From 2018 Honda, in conjunction with JAS Motorsport, Honda Performance Development and Mugen will offer the NSX GT3 race car for sale around the world.
Already a multiple race winner in its inaugural season of the North American IMSA SportsCar Championship, the Honda NSX GT3 is eligible to race in more than dozen FIA-sanctioned race series around the world.
These include:
The Blancpain GT Series and Nurburgring 24-Hour race in Europe; The Pirelli World Challenge and IMSA SportsCar series in North America; The Blancpain GT Asia Series and GT Asia championship; The Super GT300 class in Japan;
The Australian GT Championship and the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
Naturally, the cars will also be eligible for our very own G&H Transport Extreme Supercar series.
The NSX GT3 has been designed by Honda’s Research and Development in Japan in collaboration with JAS Motorsport in Milan, Italy.
The car’s development has been undertaken as a collaborative project over the past three years that has also included HPD since the end of 2015, with over 85,000km of race and test mileage completed.
An initial batch of 12 cars will be produced in time for the start of the 2018 race season.
The race cars’ production-based 3.5-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 racing engines are to be built alongside their production vehicle counterparts at the Anna Engine Plant in Ohio, USA.
The racing engine uses the same design specifications as that of the production NSX, including the block, heads, valve train, crankshaft, pistons and dry-sump lubrication system.
A six-speed, sequential-shift racing gearbox delivers power to the NSX GT3’s rear wheels, while a state-of-the-art chassis and aerodynamic package finishes off the performance credentials. The exposed carbon fibre, race-ready NSX GT3 is offered for sale by JAS Motorsport.
Additional options and complete customer support, including parts and sales, training and engineering services are available. If you have to ask what any of the above would cost, you can obviously not afford it.
“Honda are extremely proud to launch the NSX GT3 Customer Racing Programme,” said Robert Watherston, Head of Motorsport at Honda Motor Europe.
“We have already seen the quality of the car proven by its victories in the USA and its ability to convincingly lead the Daytona 24 Hour race on its series debut.
“With the customer support of Honda, JAS Motorsport, HPD and Mugen, we look forward to seeing the NSX fighting for victory in the most prestigious GT3 races in the world in 2018 and beyond.”