Honda->ke34 is bringing some awesome hardware to run up the mountain in this year’s Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb->ke1001. Honda has a storied history on the mountain including records for EV racers in ’94 and ’99 and last year Honda set the record for fielding the most O.E.M-sponsored vehicles in the most classes. They ran 11 cars in 10 separate classes.

This year Honda is returning to Pike’s Peak and it is bringing one of my favorite sports cars of all time, the first-gen Acura NSX->ke307. As one of the few Japanese supercars->ke177, it already deserves praise, but when you consider Honda used F1 racing legend Ayrton Senna->ke4309 to help design and sort the chassis, you have a true driver’s car for the ages.

It would have been amazing to see Honda field a new NSX prototype, but with the constant back and forth regarding that vehicles production, I doubt Honda even has enough parts together to create racing mule if they wanted to.

Apart from the NSX, Honda has planes to run a Fit EV, a B-Spec class Fit racer, a CBR600RR motorcycle->ke292 and a TRX450 ATV in the event. Honda is also quick to point out that much of their ATV equipment is also being used by race officials to travel around the mountain.

While I am most interested in the NSX, Honda is also helping to power a Norma M20FC entrant in the Unlimited class. It looks like Honda is going all-in on Pike’s Peak, and that makes us super happy.

Click past the jump to read more about some of Honda's Pike Peak entrants.

2014 Honda fielding First-Gen NSX and More at 2014 Pike's Peak

2014 Honda fielding First-Gen NSX and More at 2014 Pike's Peak
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Acura NSX

The NSX was a huge leap forward in speed, performance and design for Honda. It was a fraction of the price of metal from Ferrari, but would handily trump those machines around a race track.

In its first six years, the NSX was powered by 3.0-liter V-6 mounted behind the front seats that produced 270 horses -- reduced to 252 horsepower with the auto transmission -- and 210 pound-feet of torque. In 1997, Acura switched to a 3.2-liter V-6 that pushed power to 290 horsepower in manual transmission-equipped models only -- all automatic models kept the old 3.0-liter V-6.