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REV Fire Group Partners With Daytona International Speedway in Providing Custom Pumpers and All-Electric Vector™ Fire Truck

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230118005598/en/

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230118005598/en/
    The all-electric Vector fire truck and the other REV Fire Group apparatus will be used at the Daytona 500, the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Coke Zero Sugar 400.
  • Similar initiatives championed by NASCAR and its partners include a blended biofuel, in-venue recycling efforts, and the recycling of racing oils and race-used tires.
  • The design also features low battery cell placement, offering a safer, lower center of gravity for enhanced stability while operating at the Speedway.
  • Vector and the other REV Fire apparatus will be used at the Daytona 500, the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Coke Zero Sugar 400.

Acura Sweeps Petit Le Mans

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Monday, October 3, 2022
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We're massively proud of all of our Acura Motorsports teams.

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  • We're massively proud of all of our Acura Motorsports teams.
  • Tom Blomqvist (#60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05) race winner and drivers' champion: "Wow, we won the race and the championship!
  • Till Bechtolsheimer (#66 Gradient Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo22) GTD race winner: "It was all a blur, and I was just trying not to throw up.
  • Acura will return to contest the prototype and GTD titles in the 2023 season, which opens January 26-29 with the Rolex 24 at the famed Daytona International Speedway.

Acura Returns to Formula 1 Racing for the U.S. Grand Prix

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Acura is back in Formula 1!  Returning to the pinnacle of motorsports for the first time in more than a decade, Acura livery will appear on the rear wings of the Red Bull Racing Honda and Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda Formula 1 cars for the Aramco United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas Oct. 22-24. Celebrating its role as the performance division of Honda in North America, Acura also will appear on the driving suits and helmet visors of Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and Scuderia AlphaTauri drivers Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda during the race weekend.

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  • "It's very special to have Acura become part of our partnership with Red Bull Racing Honda and Scuderia AlphaTauri Hondafor the United States Grand Prix 2021," says Masashi Yamamoto, Honda F1's Managing Director.
  • From 1989 to 1992, Honda F1 drivers including Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost wore Acura visors at the Canadian and U.S. Grand Prix.
  • Most recently, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello displayed the Acura logo on their visors for the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix.
  • Acura also won its first-ever overall victory at the grueling Rolex 24 of Daytona this year, with the Acura ARX-05 piloted by Wayne Taylor Racing.