An experimental Honda Insight rally car has been banned by Formula 1000 organizers for being too fast on the tarmac. The last-gen Honda Insight fielded by the UK’s OakTec Racing was kicked out of competition after it amassed a 19-point lead after just three events.
Organizers of the Formula 1000 tarmac series were concerned that the gasoline-electric Honda wielded an unfair advantage, having landed two first-place finishes and one second-place. The team’s been mum on the car’s powertrain — involving  … Pictures and more
Last year in the Nürburgring 24 Hour race, Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid held the lead for more than eight hours before problems unrelated to the hybrid system saw it relegated through the field. The organizer of the event thought the performance potential of the vehicle was so auspicious that for this year it crippled the rear-mounted petrol engine’s performance to just 448 bhp. So Porsche built a completely new vehicle to the same design around the new regulations, lowered the weight, upped the electrical drive to the front wheels to 200 bhp and set out to run the same lap times  …Â