The 2023 Honda Civic Type R set a new 'Ring record of 7:44.8 over the new, slightly longer Nordschleife track length.
has set a new record for front-wheel drive cars at Germany's Nürburgring racetrack—if you read the fine print.
The latest Civic Type R lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:44.8, Honda confirmed Wednesday in a press release. That's a slightly longer elapsed time than the 7:40.1 set by thein 2019, but Honda is claiming the record under newer rules that redefine the length of the track for the purposes of official records.
A Nordschleife lap is still around 13 miles, but the record claimed by Renault was set over a slightly shorter distance. Under rules adopted in 2019, the official length of a full lap is 20.8 kilometers or 12.9 miles. Prior to that, it was 20.6 kilometers, or 12.8 miles, which is the track length at which Renault set its lap time. The Megane RS Trophy R's lap time over the 20.8-kilometer distance was 7:45.3, so the Civic Type R was quicker in this apples-to-apples comparison.
This allows Honda to reclaim the front-wheel drive Nürburgring lap record for production cars, but again it requires a bit of explanation. The FK8-generation Civic Type R
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