The Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 Comes to Project Motor Racing

3. October 2025

Legends & NSX

So let’s get history out of the way.

Honda (Acura in the US) rewrote the supercar brief with the 1990 NSX original that married a mid-engine V6 and VTEC to the first mass-produced all-aluminium chassis featuring performance improved by Ayrton Senna’s eye—and brown leather moccasins!

It proved you could have exotica performance with everyday visibility, ergonomics, and reliability. (And price, but who cares about that!)

The NSX-R distilled that purity, and the second-gen’ (2017-2022) revived the name with hybrid torque-vectoring brains on which the eventual NSX GT3 program was built. Or maybe translated would be more accurate, because the GT3 merged the NSX soul and architecture into a race winner.

And then Acura unleashed the culmination of the NSX pedigree with the NSX Evo22.

Across road and track, “NSX” has always defined what it means to balance and reliability to the driver—engineering that feels special and planted on every lap.

You’ll find it’s the same in the Project Motor Racing version of the Acura NSX Evo22.

Planted, Driven, Fun

When Acura rolled out the NSX GT3 Evo22, it was chasing consistency, not speed. The second evolution of the GT3 NSX sharpened a proven weapon with upgrades aimed at the realities of pro/am endurance racing: re-tuned suspension geometry, revised spring rates, larger fluid tanks, and new engine intercoolers to keep the twin-turbo V6 happy across punishing temps.

Lag-Free Turbo Paradise

Under the deck remains Acura’s beautiful 3.5L, 75° twin-turbo DOHC V6, the same base architecture as the road car’s JNC1 minus the hybrid system, mounted longitudinally behind the driver and fed by a dry-sump.

Drive goes through an XTRAC 6-speed paddle-shift sequential. The chassis originates at Acura’s Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, while race assembly and customer support are handled by JAS Motorsport in Italy. Power is BoP-limited (520 bhp in typical form), but the idea is not raw horses, but usable power across the rev’ range. And it doesn’t get a whole lot sweeter than this 3.5L: power on demand, the kind you can use and not waste with wheelspin.

Maths Are Mathing

This GT3 is a joy to race: stable on the brakes, forgiving over curbs, and super-gentle on tyres—exactly what you want for 12 hours at Sebring or the sprint-to-yellow-flag cadence of street circuits. It’s quick, forgiving, and sharp. Add it up and you get a car that shrinks the risk envelope without muting the fun.

Proof Of Life?

If you want receipts, look to IMSA 2022: Gradient Racing took an emotional GTD win at Petit Le Mans, finishing ahead of the GTD Pro field on the road. In SRO America that same season, Racers Edge Motorsports sealed the Pro/Am title with Ashton Harrison and Mario Farnbacher. Those are the kind of results that come from a car drivers trust at the limit and crews trust under pressure.

The NSX Way

Acura’s GT3 program has always been about translating road-car rigour into race-car reliability: production-spec engine fundamentals, Ohio-built core components, and JAS’s racecraft layered on top.

The NSX GT3 Evo22 doesn’t try to bully rivals with peak numbers. It wins the averages—lap after lap, stop after stop, turning long races into a series of repeatable, confidence-inspiring moments. That’s why teams pick it, why engineers love it, and why drivers get out of it with a grin instead of a shrug.

And that black livery and gorgeous design isn’t half-bad either!

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