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BTCC and Super GT Honda Coming to iRacing
Steve Myers of iRacing.com revealed that the company has signed two new license deals. There were already some hints a few months back and today the long wait is finally over as the NGTC Honda Civic from the British Touring Car Championship and the Honda HSV-010 GT from the Japanese Super GT series are coming to the simulation.
NGTC Honda Civic
The new ninth generation Honda Civic, built fully to NGTC regulations, was the first NGTC car to be raced in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, at the hands of Tomas Engström. At the first round of the 2012 BTCC season, the Civic became the first full NGTC specification winner!
The Civic is a Front-wheel-drive touring car with a 2-litre turbocharged production-based 4-cylinder petrol engine, producing approximately 300bhp with a 7,000 rev limit, 0.8 bar of boost and inlet-restrictor. Its equipped with a 6-speed sequential semi-automatic gearbox
Honda HSV-010 GT
In 2009 Honda announced the HSV-010 GT as the successor to the NSX Super GT in the Japanese Super GT series. Unlike typical Super GT cars, the vehicle is not based on any production vehicle that is made available to purchase by the general public.
The HSV-010 GT was developed exclusively for racing with the hope of offering thrills and dreams to fans through an unremitting focus on speed-the starting point of all motorsports. The model conforms to the 2010 GT500 Regulations, (including a 3.4-liter V8 engine with 500 bhp and an FR layout) issued by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF), having earned JAF-GT500 basic vehicle registration.
[source: twitter]
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12 Comments
RDTCC / RDGTC anybody?
Ooooooh! BTCC car was hinted at, but SGT Honda? Wow!
ohm gosh i just wet myself:O
I hope the dev team will invest large amounts of time in the engine sounds for the Super GT model. Shivers all over the place when they get that right!
“BTCC coming” For a moment i thought the whole field. Awell.
Its great see finally a proper FWD car in iRacing.
BTCC Honda?
Well, they are leaving me no choice but to subscribe to them. I’ll wait to see how the car turns out physics and sound wise.
great and awesome
Wouldn’t it be cool if Iracing actually did a complete series of something instead of just individual cars all the time…..
Even more classes, to have even less drivers for proper official races.
Most time of the day any other class than rookie has empty road race servers.
Just some times of the day it fills up for a bit more than one server, so you might have 2 races with much less cars.
But still not enough to have decent multiple slots based on ratings, so many times you driving on your own after half an hour.
As i’m slower than the top drivers, but faster or stay on track longer than the rookies and the hotlappers.
If I survive turn 1, that is…
So i totally not interested in even more classes.
Would be much better to have some cars that could compete in the same class.
That’s what makes GT racing so nice, different cars and brands competing for the same trophy.
Exactly, more cars, the less chance that someone will be driving them. You can see that in every game.
This news made me try iRacing again ( I know it will be some time before we see these cars but hey) and I had a blast. Might try sticking with it again
I agree with many here, I really wish iRacing would have more completed series but a smaller number of series. BTCC with just one car is… kinda lame but I’d be lying if I said I was completely uninterested by BTCC coming into iR.