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Honda king of top speed at Salzburgring

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The place of the 2008 FIA European Touring Car Cup is Salzburgring in Austria. The track is very fast, the average speed is close to 180 km/h and the cars top out close to 240 km/h on the fastest place on the track. Raw power in the cars are important but not everything. Jens Reno Møller’s Honda Accord had the highest top speed, 7 km/h more than the BMW of Richard Göransson, who put the fastest lap time.

Honda has always been known to have strong engines in touring car racing and that fact is confirmed here. Honda-drivers Møller and Engström were fastest in the speed trap, 237,2 km/h on Møller and 236,4 km/h on Engström.

Oscar Nogues in the SEAT Léon was third fastest with 232,6 km/h ahead of Michel Nykjær in the Chevrolet Lacetti with 231,5.

From fifth to eleventh place we find six rev limiter bouncing BMW’s. Because of their gearing all BMW’s top out at 230 km/h.

Salzburgring Top Speeds

1 Jens Reno Møller  Honda Accord 237.2 km/h

2 Tomas Engström Honda Accord 236.4 

3 Oscar Nogués SEAT Léon 232.6 

4 Michel Nykjær Chevrolet Lacetti 231.5 

5 George Tanev BMW 320si 230.4 

6 Richard Göransson BMW 320si 230.0 

7 Jan Nilsson BMW 320si 230.0 

8 Kristian Poulsen BMW 320si 230.0 

9 Franz Engstler BMW 320si 229.6 

10 Mikko Eskelinen BMW 320si 229.6 

11 Cesar Campanico BMW 320si 228.9 

12 Oleg Petrishin BMW 320si 228.5 

13 Alexander Lvov Honda Accord 227.4 

14 Andrey Smetsky Honda Accord 225.0 

15 Janis Horelkis Honda Civic 223.6 

16 Philip Geipel Toyota Auris 221.1 

17 Charlie Geipel Toyota Corolla 220.1 

18 Urmas Kisting BMW 320si 217.5 

19 Fabio Fabiani BMW 320i 214.6 

20 Egons Lapins Honda Integra 203.9 

21 Dimitriy Dobrovolsky Opel Astra 203.3 

22 Jens Löhnig Citroën C2 200.5 

23 Carsten Seifert Ford Fiesta 195.1