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Honda
Performance Development Unveils 3.5-Liter Prototype Engine
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Starworks Motorsport to Debut HR35TT at Sebring
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Latest Racing Application of Production-Based Honda V6
Engine
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Two-Team HPD Effort In TUDOR United SportsCar
Championship
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Feb. 20, 2014 – Honda Performance
Development Thursday announced a new, 3.5-liter racing application for the
versatile, production-based Honda V6 engine found in a wide range of
Honda/Acura passenger cars and light trucks and now raced in multiple
categories worldwide.
The Honda HR35TT twin-turbocharged V6 is expected to make its
TUDOR United SportsCar Championship debut at the 2014 Mobil1 12 Hours of
Sebring, mounted in a Riley Gen3 prototype chassis campaigned by Starworks
Motorsport.
Previously, Starworks partnered with HPD to win the LMP2 class
at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and World Endurance Championship in 2012, using
HPD’s ARX-03b chassis and Honda HR28TT twin-turbocharged V6, which also is derived
from Honda’s J35 series of engines.
Starworks becomes the second team to utilize Honda power for
the new TUDOR championship. Extreme
Speed Motorsports campaigns a pair of prototype class HPD ARX-03b Hondas, after
a successful initial season with the same package in the 2013 American Le Mans
Series.
“This is an exciting program for HPD and our customer teams
in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship,” said Steve Eriksen, HPD Vice
President and COO. “Adding Starworks, a
team that achieved great success with us in 2012, in a prototype machine
alongside the proven HPD-Honda combination run by Extreme Speed Motorsports
provides HPD with a strong, balanced attack in the inaugural TUDOR
Championship.
“It’s a fantastic
feeling to be partnering with Honda once again,” said Starworks team owner
Peter Baron. “No doubt we had amazing
success with HPD in 2012, but unfortunately it was only a one-year program. We have had numerous conversations over the
past two years about building a Daytona Prototype motor and we're thrilled to
see it come to fruition. We absolutely
love working with HPD and have been in collaboration to find a new opportunity
to partner with them again. We will have
our work cut out with the steep learning curve to get us to Victory Lane, but
HPD brings determination and success to every program it touches. Although HPD already competes in the
Prototype class, we feel this is huge step for the TUDOR series and Starworks
is thrilled to be part of it."
Starworks
Motorsport has compiled an enviable record in Daytona Prototype competition,
with five race victories, including back-to-back wins at Indianapolis in 2012
and 2013; and a second-place finish in the Daytona Prototype team championship
in 2012, with two victories and six podium finishes. That same year, Starworks became the first
American-based prototype team to win an FIA World Championship since 1968, and
HPD won its first world title in WEC competition.
The HPD-developed twin-turbocharged Honda engines to be used
in the TUDOR championship are both derived from the Honda J35 series of production
V6 engines, and include relevant twin-turbocharger technology, along with the
efficiency provided by direct fuel injection.
The HR35TT is yet another competition application of the ubiquitous
J35 engine. The first, the HR28TT, was
designed for LMP2 competition and won in its American Le Mans Series debut in
2011. The engine has gone on to record
24 individual race victories and three series titles in the American Le Mans
Series, World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series Competition.
Other variants of the engine have been raced in Japan’s
Autobacs SuperGT Championship, the One Lap of America competitive rally and
Pikes Peak International Hillclimb.
Honda Performance Development (HPD) is the Honda performance
company within North America. Located in
Santa Clarita, Calif., HPD is the technical operations center for
high-performance Honda racing cars and engines. The company is marking its 20th
anniversary in 2013.
As an engine supplier to the IZOD IndyCar Series, Honda has
scored 204 race victories in both CART and IZOD IndyCar Series competition
since 1994, and powered Scott Dixon to a series-high four victories and the
2013 IZOD IndyCar Series drivers’ championship.
HPD offers a variety of race engines for track applications
from prototype sports cars to karting; and showcases “fun-to-drive” products
for professional, amateur and entry-level racers.
Honda HR35TT V6 Engine
- Engine Type Aluminum alloy, twin-turbocharged, direct fuel-injected V6
- Displacement 3.5 liters
- Valve Train Single overhead camshaft, four valves per cylinder
- Crankshaft Alloy steel
- Pistons Forged aluminum, low-friction coatings
- Connecting Rods Machined alloy steel
- Engine Management HPD/McLaren
- Ignition System Digital inductive
- Lubrication Dry sump system
- Cooling Single mechanical water pump
- Fuel E10 100-101 octane gasoline, 10% ethanol
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