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Written by Greg Potts
Honda has deployed the Civic Type R to set a new front-wheel drive, production car lap-record at the iconic Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, Australia. Not the most exciting news you may think, but the driver was a certain Jenson Button. Nice to know he"s still doing his thing isn"t it? The former Honda F1 driver set a time of 2m 35.2s on the 3.9-mile circuit home to the bonkers Bathurst 1000 which is actually considered a public road for 350 days of the year. Incidentally, Jenson also holds the unofficial, all-time lap-record on the Mount Panorama circuit having done a 1m 48.8s in a Formula One car in 2011 whilst promoting the Australian Grand Prix, which is held a short (in Australian terms) eight-hour drive away in Melbourne.
Date written: 9 May 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
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Honda has deployed the Civic Type R to set a new front-wheel drive, production car lap-record at the iconic Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, Australia. Not the most exciting news you may think, but the driver was a certain Jenson Button. Nice to know he"s still doing his thing isn"t it? The former Honda F1 driver set a time of 2m 35.2s on the 3.9-mile circuit home to the bonkers Bathurst 1000 which is actually considered a public road for 350 days of the year. Incidentally, Jenson also holds the unofficial, all-time lap-record on the Mount Panorama circuit having done a 1m 48.8s in a Formula One car in 2011 whilst promoting the Australian Grand Prix, which is held a short (in Australian terms) eight-hour drive away in Melbourne.
Date written: 9 May 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15655