Trying to build the ultimate track machine? What’s your go-to setup: front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive?
As it turns out, there’s no wrong answer, as our first round of entries to the Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports features all three setups.
Representing front-wheel drive is Chinchi Chiang’s 2017 Honda Civic Type R (lead photo). With 500 horsepower on tap, it’s easy to see why this Type R is considered “possibly the fastest modern front-wheel-drive Honda track car.”
Sebastian Vasan’s 2019 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE favors the traditional sports car setup: rear-wheel drive. The already-potent-from-the-factory ZL1 has received a number of incremental upgrades, allowing Sebastian to “dial in the car continuously.”
All-wheel drive, the result of trying to maximize performance off the tarmac, is the setup of choice for Ghais Khaleghi’s 2014 Nissan GT-R. Making use of “bolt-ons with an E85 tune,” the GT-R is good for some 700 horsepower.
View these cars, along with the rest of the field, on the accepted entries page.
If you think you have what it takes to win, enter your car here.
The 2022 UTCC returns to Virginia International Raceway May 13-14 in the center of NASA’s HyperFest weekend.
The Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge is presented by Grassroots Motorsports in association with Wilwood Engineering, CRC Industries, DeatschWerks, HP Tuners, SPA Technique and Volkswagen, with trophies from BimmerWorld, XS Power Batteries, Sensor Connection, Track Advantage and Stifflers.