• New front - wheel drive record set on Magny - Cours GP circuit, with a 2 mins 1.51 secs lap • WTCR driver, Esteban Guerrieri, achieves record lap
in standard production car with road tyres • Record further reinforces Civic Type R's position as a class benchmark • Type R Challenge 2018 aims to break records at 5 legendary European race circuits
European in feel, with its high - revving engine and torsion - bar suspension, it had an alternator — a Chrysler first
for standard production cars.
The original car cut around 113 kg from the weight of
the standard production car (which weighs 1075 kg in 2 - litre form) but the Evolution sheds more than 45 kg more, leaving the final car little more than 900 kg in weight.
Strictly speaking, it should be
a standard production car, so no special springs and dampers or engine mods, and the tyres should be road - legal too.
How would we define what is and isn't
a standard production car?
Early rally events saw car - makers enter works cars, while up until World War II, rally cars tended to be standard or near -
standard production cars.