Acura ARX-02a: Up close
After two years learning the ropes in LMP2, Acura is gunning for overall victory in this year's Sebring 12 Hours. AUTOSPORT takes a look at the super-sophisticated machine its pinned its ALMS title hopes on
Acura had just claimed its first American Le Mans Series pole position when the brains behind its still-new LMP2 contender was given a new challenge.
Nick Wirth, whose eponymous company was responsible for the P2 racer, was asked to come up with a way of beating the turbodiesels with a petrol-powered LMP1 prototype. The result is the radical Acura ARX-02a.
That was way back in April 2007, when Dario Franchitti claimed overall pole at Long Beach at only the third event for the Courage-based ARX-01a. What followed at Wirth Research was nearly two years of hard graft dovetailing the design of a new P1 with the near-constant development that turned the P2 car into both an overall victor and a regular class winner.
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