Google Street View is always showing us some pretty cool sightings…not all Acura related of course. This time however, it looks like the big brother Google machine is right dab in the middle of the Laguna Seca circuit with some ALMS cars, including our beloved Acura ARX-01b.

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Scott Dixon of De Ferran Motorsports driving one of the new Acura ARX-02a cars set the fastest lap time in qualifying and has earned a spot ahead of the favored Audi R15 and Peugeot in the LMP1 class. Dixon achieved a best lap of 1:45.278 and just beat edged out legendary Le Mans racer Tom Kristensen in his feared Audi R15 by 0.082 seconds. Following the Acura and Audi will be the #7 Peugeot 908 HDi, which qualified 0.184 seconds behind the fastest Acura with Christian Klein at the wheel.

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Race 1 of 11 this year will be at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. This year, Sebring will feature the year’s ONLY head-to-head-to-head confrontation where LMP 1 newcomer, Acura, takes on Audi and Peugeot. After departing from ALMS for after a decade of domination, Audi s focused solely on the growing Peugeot threat at Le Mans. Peugeot likewise is focusing on Sebring and Le Mans and ignoring ALMS, and Honda Acura is going to get a season under its belt in ALMS before tackling Audi and Peugeot at Le Mans in 2010.

All three teams have extremely skilled drivers behind the wheels for Sebring, with the Gil de Ferran and Highcroft Acura teams bolstered respectively by Indy car aces Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti.

Audi’s new DieselWunderPanzer, the vicious-looking R-15, was unveiled today yesterday (3.09.2009), and it retains its open cockpit while diesel rival Peugeot is sticking with its closed cockpit. The Acuras also are open-cockpit.

Scott Dixon, the guy who gets to drive the #9 Target / Honda car in Indy and winner of the 2008 Indy Car Champion recently sat down for an interview with the gang at AutoRacing1.com.  Before wrapping up the questions, they asked Scott what kid of car he drove when he was exceeding 200 mph on a closed course.  Scott replied with, “Well, of course for me I’ve got the best car, a free car, and it’s supplied by Honda. I actually drive an Acura MDX…”

[Source: AutoRacing1.com]

Acura is present at the Winter Test event for the 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring with its new LMP1 racer that we posted yesterday.  Midway through the second day of on-track testing, one of the two Acura racers has the fastest lap time so far of 1:44:814 (126.723 mph) around Sebring’s 3.7-mile circuit. Despite the good first showing of these ARX-02a prototype LMP1 race cars, the ARX-01b cars that raced last year in the LMP2 class were still turning in lap times that were often just as fast as their bigger brothers.

[Source: American Le Mans Series]

Acura’s two new ARX-02 LMP1s have finally shown their faces in public at Sebring International Raceway as American Le Mans Series cars.  Acura will release more information, hopefully including some powerplant details very shortly. Fortunately for Audi, the ARX-02 is entering the LMP1 class just as they exited the series.

[Source: American LeMans]