{"id":496341,"date":"2017-03-01T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=42228"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:58:53","slug":"2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Racecar &#8211; 2005 BTCC\u2008Honda Integra Type R"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Racing Honda cars in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) is pretty special to me. I\u2019ve won three BTCC titles and countless races with them. Of course, I hold my first British Touring Car Championship win quite close to my heart. It was at the wheel of the 2005 Integra Type R.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Team Dynamics, we launched the car at the beginning of the 2005 season and I won two of the first three opening rounds of the BTCC series at Donington. I was rarely off of the podium during that championship-winning season. It was just a super fast car straight out of the box, and its reliability continued to give more as the season progressed. It\u2019s some achievement for me to have been placed in a point-scoring position for every race that year and a confirmation of the consistency of the car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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As Team Dynamics, we launched the car at the beginning of the 2005 season and I won two of the first three opening rounds of the BTCC series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":590714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2190,12318,718,11272,9348,17100,18207],"tags":[18322,657,22003,6459,17140,13061,6722,245,14114,17143,17219],"class_list":["post-496341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-greatest-racecars","category-honda","category-members-only","category-guides","category-model-guides-race-cars","category-special-feature","tag-2000s-all","tag-honda","tag-honda-featured","tag-honda-model-in-depth","tag-members-only","tag-car-profiles","tag-race-car-in-depth","tag-race-car","tag-british-touring-car-championship","tag-special-feature","tag-vrr-column-greatest-racecars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Favorite Racecar - 2005 BTCC\u2008Honda Integra Type R<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matt Neal discusses his choice for the best ride of his championship-wining touring car career.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Favorite Racecar - 2005 BTCC\u2008Honda Integra Type R\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matt Neal discusses his choice for the best ride of his championship-wining touring car career.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.natale1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-01T01:47:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-27T12:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GR201703.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/2005-btcc-honda-integra-type-r\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Steve Natale\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/237befa83e8e5937247db55880b8cc49\"},\"headline\":\"My Favorite Racecar &#8211; 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