Honda to Come With CR-Z at Pikes Peak This Year

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Our authentic source at Honda confirmed some important details that Honda is beating the 2015 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with its CR-Z, which is considered as an electric power-train driving & steering with its all four wheels on twisty mountain route. Honda is running its CR-Z at Pikes Peak this year; it is not a normal CR-Z, its specific racing model packs as an experimental power-train.

The CR-Z racer is a fully electric power-train gutter the 1.5 liter inline-four that makes the internal-burning component of the street-legal model of hybrid propulsion system. This power-train uses all four wheels via Honda’s Precision All Wheel Steer Systems (P-AWS) and Super Handling All Wheel Drive (SH-AWD). These technologies allows to make the CR-Z racer most proficient in handling more than 156 twists and turns on the world’s most famous Racing Clouds.

The bodywork of CR-Z has been modified with greater measures than carbon-fiber model showed in Japan. Driving functionalities will be managed by a Japanese driver Tetsuya Yamano a well known name in the Super GT series. He has won the GT300 NSX title in 2004 by driving Honda Civics in Gymkhana events in the late 90s. Now he is participating in the Pikes Peak Challenge Exhibition. The idea behind the CR-Z racing model is considered as experimental purpose and to finalize its results. This project will serve to train a number of younger engineers from Honda. The CR-Z is not alone in this mountain race because Honda has announced that its new ARX-04b Le Mans racing model is also participating at Pikes Peak this year.