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CIVIC TOURING CARS
Want to win in BTCC? Get a Civic – 201 champion championive times sinceive times since 2011
The scary new one Honda Civic Type R FK8 (2018)
This is based on the current Type R and built by Team Dynamics. Slight hitch: although Matt Neal is still driving, threetime champ Gordon Shedden has naed o to drive Audis in the World Touring Car Cup. Still, replacement Dan Cammish is handy – he won the Porsche Carrera Cup GB in 2015.
The one that outstayed its welcome Honda Civic Type R FK2 (2017)
While the current roadgoing Type R was winning friends and admirers, the Civic being raced in the 2017 BTCC season was the last-generation FK2 car. It was a winner in 2016 – Gordon Shedden taking his third title – but struggled in ’17.
The estate Honda Civic Tourer (2014)
The Civic Tourer was the irst estate to inish in the top three of a BTCC race (doing it three times at Brands). And Gordon Shedden later went the whole hog and won at Donington Park. It didn’t, unfortunately, prompt Honda to oer a Type R estate.
The irst winner Honda Civic Type R EP3 (2002)
There had been Hondas in BTCC for years, but the real breakthrough came in 2002 when the EP3 Civic Type R got its irst race win at Knockhill, driven by the future European Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx.