Verstappen x Beast - The F1 champion meets The Beast!
Watch Oracle Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen as he drives the Honda CR-V Hybrid Racer, which is equipped with an 800-horsepower Indycar hybrid power unit around Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Max Verstappen got his hands on what has been described as an 'IndyCar ‘beast’ in Honda CR-V ‘sheep’s clothing' as he did laps of Miami's motor racing track with former IndyCar racer James Hinchcliffe on hand to tell him all about Honda Performance Development's racer.
The CR-V Hybrid Racer places a 2.2-liter twin-turbocharged, electrified Honda V6 INDYCAR power unit and transmission under 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid bodywork to create the “rolling laboratory” for the continued development of electrified technology by Honda and HPD.
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David Salters, president and technical director for Honda Performance Development, the North American racing arm of American Honda and Acura. “The CR-V Hybrid Racer is our ‘rolling electrified laboratory’, to investigate where the talented men and women of HPD and Honda could go with electrification, hybrid technology and 100% renewable fuels. It epitomizes Honda’s fun-to-drive ethos, showcases electrification and it just rocks our car culture roots and racing heritage!"
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