Honda has always focused on making cars that provide superior performance and recently they decided to team up with Ohio-based Honda of American Racing Team known as HART. Together they decided to successfully debut 2012 Honda Civic Si at 25 Hours of Thunderhill. The all new 2012 Honda Civic Si designed and developed by Honda Performance Development and HART is made for racing in the Grand Ams Continental Tire Challenge Series, SCCA World Challenge and other racing categories.
To make this possible members of HART have joined hands with Honda Performance Development team and decided to display the body of 2012 Honda Civic Si at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association show in Las Vegas. Lee Niffenegger, Senior Engineer at Honda Performance Development said that this racing debut was really encouraging for both HART and HPD because they would like to see the performance of the car they have developed. He also revealed that HPD developed the parts and K-24 engine that ran flawlessly throughout the event but they found one error with the transmission. However, with the help of this race they were able to track the error and that they will make some changes to it to ensure that there are no errors in the vehicle in the near future.
Currently, the 2012 Honda Civic Si stands fifth in the E0 Class and that the car is improving because after the transmission issues the car took the seventh place. However, Honda engineers are working on it to make it even better.