The Acura ARX-05 is a
sports prototype
A sports prototype, sometimes referred to simply as a prototype, is a type of Auto racing, race car that is used in high-level categories of sports car racing. They are purpose-built auto-sports race cars, as opposed to production-car based or s ...
racing car built to
Daytona Prototype International regulations. It was developed in partnership by
Honda Performance Development and
Oreca, and is based on the
Oreca 07 chassis and powered by the Acura AR35TT twin-turbocharged 3.5L V6 engine.
The car made its racing debut at the
2018 24 Hours of Daytona with
Team Penske
Team Penske (formerly Penske Racing) is an American professional auto racing organization, competing in the IndyCar Series, NASCAR Cup Series, IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship. Debuting at the 1966 24 Hours of Day ...
. In
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
, the car won the drivers', teams' and manufacturers' titles in the top DPi class of the
IMSA
The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is a North American sports car racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida, under the jurisdiction of the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States, ACCUS arm of the Féd ...
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
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, becoming the first non-
General Motors
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car to do so. Acura and Team Penske successfully defended their titles in
2020
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, winning all of the DPi class championships.
It was announced in July 2020 that the partnership between Team Penske and Honda Performance Development would not be renewed for the 2021 season. For the
2021 season,
Wayne Taylor Racing and
Meyer Shank Racing campaigned one of the ARX-05s previously run by Penske.
Both teams continued using the model for the 2022 season. The car won the
24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona, also known as the Rolex 24 At Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports car racing, sports car Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Flo ...
in
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
and
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
.
Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.
Gallery
File:2018 Rolex 24 (41267132431).jpg, The No. 6 car during its debut at the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona
File:Cheesey (50263447101) (cropped).jpg, The No. 6 car at the 2020 IMSA SportsCar Weekend
File:Out of Canada corner (52910419363) (cropped).jpg, The No. 60 car entered by Meyer Shank Racing at the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Weekend
File:DSC0108 (52402737153).jpg, The No. 10 car entered by Wayne Taylor Racing during the closing stages of the 2022 Petit Le Mans
References
External links
Sports prototypes
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