Salters: “Zero” Chance of Customer Acuras in GTP Next Year
Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA Honda Racing Corporation USA President David Salters has ruled out seeing the Acura ARX-06, in customer hands, in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship next year, citing the high costs involved to operate LMDh cars which he calls has turned into an “arm’s race.” The luxury automaker announced last month the ‘pausing’ of its factory GTP program at the end of the year, and will instead allocate more resources into the NTT IndyCar Series through sponsorship of the Acura brand. Speaking to assembled reporters at this weekend’s StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Salters shed further light into the Honda-owned brand’s decision. “There’s exciting news that we’re going to take Acura to IndyCar, specifically to the Indy 500, so that’s history making; we’ve never done that before,” he said. “Like all things, we evaluate where we are regu...