The 7 Honda CBR1000RRW Suzuka8H '05 is a factory racing bike produced by Honda Motorcycles. It only appears in Tourist Trophy.
In real-life, this bike claimed victory in the 2005 Suzuka 8-hour endurance race with riders Ryuichi Kiyonari and Tohru Ukawa, completing a total distance of 204 laps, three laps more than the second-place competitor. This gave Honda their ninth consecutive win in the Suzuka 8 Hours. Kiyonari is the rider represented in the game.
Description[]
From 1997 through 2005, Honda clinched nine straight wins in the Suzuka 8-hour endurance race. The bikes that scored those victories were the RVF75/RC45 from 1997 to 1999, the VTR100SPW (which was based on the VTR1000SP1 and SP2) from 2000 to 2003, and, beginning in 2004, when the CBR1000RR was released, the CBR1000RRW ("W" is a designation for works machine). In fact, in 2005, the RRW took 1st and 2nd place, with non-works 1000RRS winning 3rd through 6th place. This period of dominance drove home the truly amazing potential of the 1000RR.
Honda's motorsports division - Honda Racing Corporation - had released racing kit parts for the 1000RR when the first models hit the streets. This kit, which improved power from 172 hp at 11,250 r.p.m. to 195 hp at 13,000 r.p.m., was obviously designed with privateers in mind. For instance, the chassis upgrades were compatible with the SP-2. But the 1000RRW, tricked out by HRC itself, took the 1000RR's performance to a whole new level. To win at Suzuka, HRC of course gave the bike a more powerful, tougher engine, and also an astounding array of chassis upgrades, including a custom swing arm and right-side box section in the rear for better stiffness, as well as other reinforcements. Honda experimented with various improvements, such as switching from 211V Unit Pro-Link rear suspension to the normal kit in 2005. The aluminium fuel tank is slightly high because of its 63 gallon capacity. The 1000RRW often overtook rivals on straights, but it was in the corners where its dynamic performance really blew the competition out of the water.
Acquistion[]
| Game | Method |
|---|---|
| Tourist Trophy | Win the TT World Series |
Trivia[]
- "7" refers to both Seven Stars, a Japanese "lifestyle" cigarette brand that sponsored the bike (which is censored in the game, as with usual practice with tobacco-sponsored cars in Gran Turismo series) and the racing number of the motorcycle.
- Despite this, Seven Stars (albeit singularized as "Seven Star"), alongside another cigarette brand, Cabin, is explicitly mentioned in the manufacturer description text in Arcade Mode.
- In the game's database files, the motorcycle's manufacturer is coded as "_7honda"; this is necessary to display a custom logo specific to each Suzuka 8 Hours racing motorcycles.
- To avoid database errors, the manufacturer's name is preceded with a trailing underscore in it. This is also true for all cars and motorcycles whose internal name began with a number.
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