Acura TLX GT Race Car Track Drive - Motor Trend
Cunningham, owner of RealTime Racing and driver of the No. 42 Acura TLX GT in Pirelli World Challenge GT, started his career in SCCA Solo II autocross in the 1980s — just like me. At his first three Nationals, he finished third, second, and first... I won my first World Challenge race co-driving with P. D. , a 24 Hour in 1990 in a Honda CRX. We grew up in racing together, often wheel-to-wheel. Like me, he won a lot. He is the winningest active road racer in North America, the great majority of those wins in Acuras (NSX, Integra Type R, TSX). Today, after all those years as staunch competitors, I drive one of his precious creations. Taking a man’s race car is like dating his wife. Where’s the 600-hp, twin-turbo, 3. 5-liter, stock-block, crank and heads V-6. Just a couple years ago I was racing a similar machine in this same class, the K-PAX Volvo S60. Both are big sedans derived from FWD-based AWD chassis running... The Volvo’s little single-turbo five-cylinder was transverse, right up front in the stock position, built to a differing set of rules seven years ago. I’d have killed to have it under the dash like this one, an ideal location. It would have been a lot easier to find a racing transmission, too. Source: www.motortrend.com
