page_title: Honda NSX (first generation)
section_title: JGTC and Super GT
hierarchical_section_title: Honda NSX (first generation) / Motorsports / JGTC and Super GT
caption_attribution_description: An Autobacs Racing Team Aguri(ARTA) Honda NSX in the SuperGT series.
context_page_description: The first generation Honda NSX, marketed in North America and Hong Kong as the Acura NSX, is a 2-seater, mid-engine sports car that was manufactured by Honda in Japan from 1990 to 2005.
context_section_description: In 1996 season, prior to the formation of factory-backed team, Team Kunimitsu entered the first NSX in the series, based on the 1995 Le Mans GT2 car in specification. Without factory support, the car's best finish was seventh in the August Fuji Speedway race. For the 1997 season, Honda officially entered the series with factory-supported NSX, which featured a chassis developed Dome, based on the collaboration experience in JTCC series with Honda Accord and engines by Mugen. The car's debut race was at the 2nd round of the series at Fuji Speedway, with a first pole position at the fifth round race at Mine Circuit. 
  In 1998 season, the NSX obtained pole position at all the seven rounds of the series. The car also managed its first win at the Japan Special GT-Cup in Fuji and also won at all the subsequent four remaining rounds of the series. However, the team suffered a minor setback when the #18 Dome car was disqualified from the final race of the season.
  For 2000, the "Phase 2" NSX-GT machine was introduced, where the car's engine mounting was lowered and a Formula Nippon-specification transmission was used. Although the transmission was proven to be fragile, Ryo Michigami and his team, Mugen × Dome Project's #16 Castrol NSX, managed to get the first Drivers' and Teams' Championship title for Honda; he had done so without scoring a single win.
  Following a facelift in 2002 to match the road car's facelift the previous year, the Phase 3 NSX-GT featured changes to the car's V6 engine to prepare for the relaxed regulations for 2003, where the car's C32B engine was mounted longitudinally instead of transversely as per the road car. Similar to the setup used in modern Lamborghinis, the gearbox is located in the center tunnel under the cockpit and is connected to the rear differential by a driveshaft.
  Prior to rule changes beginning in the 2003 season, the Super GT/GT500 NSX was powered by a specially modified version of the C32B V6 engine. Using a stroke crankshaft from Toda Racing, the naturally aspirated engine displaced 3.5-litres and produced nearly 500 hp (373 kW; 507 PS). Beginning in 2004, Honda used a turbocharged C30A engine, outputting similar horsepower, but the engine cooling proved troublesome and Honda reverted to naturally aspirated C32B the following year.
  For the newly renamed 2005 Super GT Series, Honda created the NSX-R GT model to allow the Phase 4 NSX-GT to allow the car to have extended overhangs, lip-spoiler and rear-diffuser as effective aerodynamics measures. This allowed the car to obtain ten pole positions and five wins in both 2005 and 2006.
  For the 2007 season, stepped floors was introduced to reduce aerodynamic ground effects. Even with these changes, the Phase 5 NSX-GT won both Team's Championship and Drivers' Championship thanks to Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) with Ralph Firman and Daisuke Itō.
  The NSX continued to be used as the works Honda car in the GT500 class, even though it is no longer in production, until it was replaced 2010 with the HSV-010. New 2014 regulations however will render the HSV-010 obsolete; Honda's 2014-spec GT500 car is to be based on the concept version of the new NSX, followed with a Group GT3 version from 2017 onwards.
  The NSX-GT was used in the series between 1997–2009, and it was one of the most successful cars to race in the series. It won 36 races, 45 pole positions, three teams' and two drivers' championships and finished runner-up in the drivers' championship six times when it didn't win it. It also won the Suzuka 1000km four times; in 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004. It is the only Japanese car in the series to score pole position and fastest lap in every race of the season, holds the record for the most consecutive wins at six and is the first car to win the championship prior to the final race. A GT300 specification NSX won the GT300 class titles in 2004 and finished second the following year.
caption: Phase 5 NSX-GT during Super GT competition in 2007 season
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