Acura has a brand new efficiency providing on sale within the type of the 2024 Integra Sort S, and to show the automobile’s mettle the automaker plans to enter one on this 12 months’s Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb.

Acura is not taking a inventory model to Colorado Springs, although. Acura has tapped HPD to develop a customized racing model. It will likely be entered within the Exhibition, with Loni Unser set to hop behind the wheel. The Unser household has been competing at Pikes Peak since 1926 and Loni made her debut in 2022, ending second in her class.

Her automobile’s mechanicals will principally be inventory, with the record of modifications restricted to a Borla exhaust, 19-inch Titan 7 wheels, Yokohama Advan A005, and a carbon-fiber entrance splitter and rear wing.

The Integra Sort S, which retails for $51,995, together with transport, is powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-4 that is rated at 320 hp and mated completely to a 6-speed handbook transmission. Drive is to the entrance wheels solely.

Loni Unser and the 2024 Acura Integra Sort S HPD race automobile

Loni Unser and the 2024 Acura Integra Sort S HPD race automobile

Acura will even have an NSX Sort S on the mountain, although the second-generation supercar is now not in manufacturing. Acura is bringing a extremely modified instance with aerodynamic components designed to spice up downforce whereas decreasing drag.

It was developed by HART, a skunkworks racing group made up of volunteer Honda employees, and options an energetic rear wing, an prolonged entrance splitter, and a big diffuser. It additionally options enlarged turbocharged and weight financial savings of round 200 kilos.

The inventory powertrain within the NSX Sort S consists of a turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 and trio of electrical motors producing a mixed 600 hp. The motors are organized two on the entrance and one on the rear with the V-6.

Acura NSX Sort S Energetic Aero Examine

Driving the NSX, which is named the NSX Sort S Energetic Aero Examine, will probably be Pikes Peak common James Robinson, who in 2020 scored a category report time of 10:01.913 behind the wheel of one other NSX.

This 12 months’s Pikes Peak is scheduled for June 25.

Acura will even enter a customized Integra and TLX Sort S, to be pushed by Paul Hubers and Jordan Guitar respectively. A 2023 TLX Sort S PMC Version will even function the official tempo automobile.