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| This Super GT500 racer truly shocked the world... |
This car is downloadable at the PlaystationStore for 100 Yen or $0.99 and with this price, you can experience the different kind of SUPER GT contender from Honda that dominated the 2011 Super GT season.
About this HSV-010 though, this is a different kind of SUPER GT500-class Honda racecar that replaced the NSX-GT racers after its tenure from 1997 to 2009 with 50 pole positions and 37 wins total. This is a race car nobody knows what that is and yes, this whole HSV-010 is a complete puzzle. At first though, it was thought to be the next generation NSX but thanks to today's economy, Honda pulled the plug on the NSX program (well, at least they told until the NSX Concept story that some say, it will come in the year 2015) late during the development stages.
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| Cutting through the corners... |
The HSV-010 GT was powered by a HR10EG 3.4L V8 engine that is somewhat an upgraded version of the engine that powers the Formula Nippon racecar that achieves the 500HP regulations for the GT500 class of the Super GT. It was mated to a 6-speed Ricardo sequential manual gearbox, the same unit used by Nissan and Toyota in their Super GT machines, ensuring that their drivers will be hard pressed to miss a shift.
Check out the clips from Honda giving the HSV-010 GT the torture needed before it can race in the 2010 season...
The HSV-010 featured on GT5 is a #1 weider HSV-010, driven by Takashi Kogure and Loic Duval. It made a PP on the first race and then it won the 2nd race. I agree that with such cornering and such speed, the HSV-010 was a game changer in the Super GT history, even better than the old JGTC and Super GT NSX racers of yesteryears. Little known fact that since its debut year, the #1 weider HSV-010 garnered both the team and driver titles on the 2010 season and with such progress, they continued through the 2011 season and placed 3rd overall. That said, that accomplishment made this new Honda GT racer great on the Super GT series.
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| A perfect picture for a perfect magazine cover! |
Sure, because Gran Turismo is a proud sponsor of the Super GT races as well as the D1GP, I'd expect that the HSV-010 stays here. Don't think that I'm lying since the 86/FR-S malarkey because the HSV-010 is one of the cars that have more fun in the world of Gran Turismo. So, the only way to sample the Honda HSV-010 GT is only on the PlayStation3 and GT5. Enough said.
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| HSV-010 GT in Suzuka |
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| Trying to wow the Fuji crowd here! |
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