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Honda unveils WTCC racing engine
Honda unveiled the new racing engine HR412E that will power the Civic WTCC racing car in the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
Honda WTCC HR412E engine
Developed at Hondas R&D centre in Tochigi, the unit is a completely bespoke 1.6 litre 4-cylinder direct injection turbo-charged petrol engine.
Daisuke Horiuchi, the WTCC Development Project Leader at Honda R&D said: "In the continuous technological development of an internal combustion engine, the thermal efficiency is the essential key for improvement. And a race engine is not an exception.
"This HR412E was born from such thought process: aiming for higher efficiency. The HR412E heralds a new generation of high performance racing engines from Honda. All engineers at the R&D centre in Tochigi have worked hard to develop a race engine that will deliver great driveability to our drivers, with no compromise on peak power performance.
"We believe the innovations that have led to this revolutionary engine will also lead to benefits beyond the racetrack, helping us to further increase the efficiency of our road car engines."
The engine has been delivered to the Honda Racing Team JAS workshop in Italy, where the Civic WTCC is being developed, and successfully passed all initial tests.
The news follows the recent naming of Hondas works team drivers for WTCC: Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/honda-unveils-wtcc-racing-engine-085553185.html
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danielgr
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P54 wrote:
Honda unveils WTCC racing engine
Honda unveiled the new racing engine HR412E that will power the Civic WTCC racing car in the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
Honda WTCC HR412E engine
Developed at Hondas R&D centre in Tochigi, the unit is a completely bespoke 1.6 litre 4-cylinder direct injection turbo-charged petrol engine.
Daisuke Horiuchi, the WTCC Development Project Leader at Honda R&D said: "In the continuous technological development of an internal combustion engine, the thermal efficiency is the essential key for improvement. And a race engine is not an exception.
"This HR412E was born from such thought process: aiming for higher efficiency. The HR412E heralds a new generation of high performance racing engines from Honda. All engineers at the R&D centre in Tochigi have worked hard to develop a race engine that will deliver great driveability to our drivers, with no compromise on peak power performance.
"We believe the innovations that have led to this revolutionary engine will also lead to benefits beyond the racetrack, helping us to further increase the efficiency of our road car engines."
The engine has been delivered to the Honda Racing Team JAS workshop in Italy, where the Civic WTCC is being developed, and successfully passed all initial tests.
The news follows the recent naming of Hondas works team drivers for WTCC: Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/honda-unveils-wtcc-racing-engine-085553185.html
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P54
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Honda sign Tarquini and Monteiro
The pair will be at the wheel of the new Civic WTCC cars run by Honda Racing Team JAS in 2013.
JAS Motorsport are currently developing the European Honda Civic five-door racing car which will use a new 1.6 litre 4 cylinder direct injection turbo-charged petrol engine. The team will enter one car for the three final events of the 2012 WTCC with Monteiro at the wheel, at Suzuka, Shanghai and Macau. 2009 World Touring Car champion Tarquini will also assist the works team on the car's development this year.
Tarquini has claimed 17 WTCC race victories and was crowned champion in 2009; he rejoins Honda and JAS Motorsport for which he raced from 1997 to 2001 in the British, German and European Touring Car Championships.
"I am very proud that Honda called me back to restart together again. I was theirs and the team's first choice from the beginning, and we have worked together planning all the steps to set the programme up," said Tarquini.
"Honda is one of the most important brands in automotive industry and in motor sport. They have achieved countless victories in all the categories. The team is very professional and I know all the people very well from my past years with them. There will be no need for adjustment periods. We start working with a lot of optimism and I believe we have all we need to be competitive straight away."
Monteiro, who has four WTCC victories to his name as well as a third-place finish in the 2005 US Grand Prix (albeit in a race when only six drivers started), was delighted to earn a spot in the team.
"I am obviously very excited for this amazing opportunity," he said. "These are tough times in motor sport and there are not many car manufacturers ready to launch factory programmes.
"To be chosen by Honda is a big boost for my ambitions, because I know they are not playing around but will do everything in the proper way.
"And I'm really happy to team up with Gabriele again. He helped me a lot when I joined SEAT and we get very well together. Especially at the beginning he will be more involved in developing the car, because of his vast experience. However, as I am the one who will drive the car in its first races, I will take over before Suzuka and will have a test of my own in Japan," Monteiro stated.
Hideo Sato, General Manager of Honda Motorsport Division in Japan, said: "We are delighted to have Gabriele back with us and excited to welcome Tiago into the Honda racing family for the first time.
"Both are former Formula One drivers and have also proven time and again that they belong in the absolute top echelon of world touring car drivers. We are convinced that both drivers will contribute to the success of the Honda Civic in the FIA WTCC."
http://asia.eurosport.com/wtcc/honda-sign-tarquini_sto3351659/story.shtml
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P54
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Another image of engine:
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danielgr
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P54 wrote:
Another image of engine:
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Again, thanks for posting. One has to love those engine-only pics, give you the impression of some kind of beast waiting to be awoken !!! (remember the bad guy in Cars2?)
Also love how they took the pain of writing the H on what looks-to-be a carbon-fiber air-intake duct, for sure they did not want anything perturbing what looks-to-be gold-plating of the engine cover (ignorant me doesn't know if that's normal for racing car engines, but makes engineer me think of aerospace stuff :) )
PS: Honda Europe has released high def pictures of these, so for sure they can be found in PR-quality around the net...
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CarPhreakD
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danielgr wrote:
P54 wrote:
Another image of engine:
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Again, thanks for posting. One has to love those engine-only pics, give you the impression of some kind of beast waiting to be awoken !!! (remember the bad guy in Cars2?)
Also love how they took the pain of writing the H on what looks-to-be a carbon-fiber air-intake duct, for sure they did not want anything perturbing what looks-to-be gold-plating of the engine cover (ignorant me doesn't know if that's normal for racing car engines, but makes engineer me think of aerospace stuff :) )
PS: Honda Europe has released high def pictures of these, so for sure they can be found in PR-quality around the net...
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The gold foil would normally be used around the intake... to keep the charge air cool. It's just reflective tape.
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