By Colin Wood
May 19, 2025
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Honda,
Ultimate Track Car Challenge,
honda civic,
NCM Motorsports Park
One lap, two new records set.
Jimmy Rauck, a previous competitor in our annual Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsposrts, just drove his 1999 turbo K-powered Honda Civic to a 2:01.497 lap at NCM Motorsports Park.
[The Fastest FWD Car Ever at NCM | 1999 Turbo K-Powered Honda Civic]
The blistering lap time was quick enough to break both the front-wheel-drive and production car lap records.
5/19/25 12:12 p.m.
(Psst, you should also sign up for the UTCC. It's at Pitt Race September 18-21.)
5/19/25 2:52 p.m.
That's amazing. I bet GM never thought a Honda Civic would take that title of the fastest production-based car at their test track.
5/19/25 3:34 p.m.
To be fair, it's a production-BASED car, not a production car.
5/21/25 12:49 p.m.
In reply to Andy Hollis :
I hear you. It's not truly straight off the line from the factory.
SCCA defines a production car as production-based.
5/21/25 7:09 p.m.
SCCA doesn't define it at all. The claim in the release is an unofficial track record. While this lap happened in an SCCA competition, the unofficial track record encompasses all uses of the track. Whether it be production, production-based or outright.
What SCCA *does* keep officially is track records for it's TT and road racing classes.
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