Few manufacturers can lay claim to a history as rich as Honda’s in 21st-century top-line touring car racing.
A Tom Kristensen-driven Accord won the British Touring Car Championship’s final-ever Super Touring bout at Silverstone in 2000, and Gabriele Tarquini steered the same model to the most victories in the following year’s European Super Touring Championship.
Privately entered Accords built to Super 2000 rules claimed a hat-trick of wins in the European Touring Car Cup (mostly single-event) with James Thompson and Fabrizio Giovanardi between 2009 and 2011, before the factory JAS Motorsport team proved a winner following Honda’s fully fledged return to the global stage with the Civic in the 2012 World Touring Car Championship, in both its S2000 and TC1 rulesets. And since the WTCC became the World Touring Car Cup with the adoption of TCR rules in 2018, nobody has won more races than Honda’s Esteban Guerrieri (10).
