Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition becomes fastest FWD on Suzuka circuit

The French hot hatch in the Trophy-R guise established a record at Suzuka for the fastest front-wheel-drive production car at the end of 2019 when it lapped the twisty circuit in 2 minutes and 25.4 seconds. It has now been dethroned by its archrival as the Civic Type R in the track-focused Limited Edition guise has shaved off one and a half seconds from the Megane’s record. Technically, Honda didn’t break the record with an actual production vehicle as it used a development car, but I guess that still coun