Will the all-new 2.4-liter, twin-turbo V6 in the Acura IMSA GTP car be HPD's last-ever internal combustion engine for racing? 😲 Here's what its boss thinks 👇
Speaking ahead of the start of the new LMDh era of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, HPD president David Salters said his team had been given “a lot of freedom” and took “quite a lot of risk” in the 2.4-liter design, which is paired with the first electrical hybrid system in top-class American racing.
“It was always in our mind that we wanted to celebrate all the efforts and learnings that we’d gathered and try to put it all together. A very wise team owner once told me that two years is a very long time in motorsport, so it could all change, and the world is changing very quickly.Photo by: Acura “The easy thing would’ve been to lift the DPi engine and plonk it in the back of our LMDh, but that’s not why we do this,” he said. “I feel fortunate to work for Honda and Acura, we have our own factory with 200-odd people who deal with all sorts of programs, and we do this to challenge ourselves.