RealTime Racing has been successfully fielding Hondas and Acuras in a variety of motorsports venues since 1987. After winning ice racing championships with Honda Civics and CRXs in each of the three years they competed ('87, '89 and '90), RealTime set their sights on the SCCA PRO Rally Championship. After finishing second in a partial season with an Acura Integra GSR in 1992, they won the Production class title the following year.  While performance rallying posed a wonderful challenge to the team, the nature of the sport in our country made it difficult to attract the sponsorship necessary to run a properly supported effort.

So, during that same year of 1993, RealTime shifted their focus to road racing. The SCCA World Challenge Series was one which team principal Peter Cunningham was familiar with, as he had been competing in the series and its predecessor for a variety of teams since the beginning in 1985. Previously an endurance series, the new format called for only
sprint races, just less than an hour long. This arrangement appealed to this small team, and with the help from their friends at the Special Projects Department of American Honda, set forth with what has turned out to be the winningest effort this championship has seen.

RealTime campaigned two Honda Preludes in '93, 1994 and 1995, using the same support rig that they had designed for the rally program. This consisted of a cube van with a twenty-six foot tag trailer, which was a great package for servicing a rally car in the middle of a forest, but probably not an ideal situation for road racing. Nonetheless, the part-time RealTime crew made the best of it and still had a professional look in the paddock. Up against the factory Oldsmobile team (among others), lead RealTime driver Peter Cunningham put forth strong efforts in this span, finishing second (by three points) in '93 and '94, before winning the Drivers' Championship in '95. The Manufacturers' Championship was also fiercely fought for in this era, with those titles being decided only at the final race of each season, and RealTime was there to do what it took to bring all three awards to American Honda.

1996 marked the beginning of the Acura program in the World Challenge, as defending Touring Car Champion (then Class C) Peter Cunningham moved to an Acura NSX for the GT Championship (then T1 for those that are keeping track). Meanwhile, in the smaller class, Michael Galati and Fred Meyer joined the team, to take over the Prelude effort. A new three-car semi was procured, and the RealTime boys had moved up a notch with their seriousness on the championship. In a developmental year, the NSX finally broke through to win the last two races of the season, foreshadowing the coming year's success. And in the Touring Car division, Galati won the Rookie-of-the-Year title on his way to RealTime's second consecutive Drivers' Championship and Honda's fifth consecutive Manufacturers' trophy.

1997 was a banner year for RealTime Racing in the World Challenge as they ended up winning the Drivers' Championship in both divisions. All this in the year the RealTime paddock grew by two, as the team had now added a pair of Acura Integra Type Rs to their stable that already included an NSX and a couple of Preludes. Cunningham returned in the NSX, while Galati and Brazilian phenom Pierre Kleinubing were slated for the new Integras. Meanwhile, Meyer continued in one Prelude, with newcomer Jim Lovett in the other. The Acura Division of American Honda wanted to showcase the competitiveness of the flagship NSX, and the RealTime effort became evermore legitimate. The three-car trailer was traded in for a brand new five-car hauler, and two more full-time crewmen were added in an attempt to handle the additional burden. What was once a fledgling part-time operation had grown to be a professional, full-time race team. Kleinubing and Galati dominated in Touring Car, with Pierre coming out on top in his rookie season, and Michael sandwiching the leading factory Saturn entry in third. And with Peter winning the GT battle, RealTime proved they had a winning recipe for success.

The line-up for 1998 saw the return of Cunningham, Meyer, Galati, and Kleinubing, in an all-Acura stable of racing cars. The Preludes were sold off, and an additional Type R was added for Mr. Meyer. Cunningham won two races along the way, but was unfortunately hampered by engine failures that cost him a repeat of the GT Championship. Fortunately, Galati and Kleinubing saved the season, by finishing one-two in the Touring Car Drivers' Championship. And, between the two of them, earned the lion's share of the points to net Acura their first Manufacturers' title. At the end of the season, it was announced that Acura was pulling back their involvement, and the NSX program came to an end. Peter's '97 championship-winning NSX and Michael's '98 winning Integra were retired to the Honda museum.

The 1999 World Challenge saw the beginning of a new era, as the Speedvision network signed on as title sponsor for a five-year deal. And for the first time, the team owner was not listed as one of the drivers. The RealTime story this year focused on the Touring Car division, with four Type R Integras. Returning to the line-up was veteran Meyer and '97 champ Kleinubing, along with new teammates Hugh Plumb and Kevin Schrantz. Plumb had won the Rookie championship the year before for his own team, and decided to join the RealTime squad for '99. And Series newcomer Schrantz was looking to fight for the same title this year. By fulfilling this goal, he became the third RealTime pilot to capture the Rookie-of-the-Year award, and finished an impressive sixth in points in the process. Meanwhile, Pierre and Hugh together secured fourteen podium finishes in a fight right down to the finale for the Championship, falling just short by a respective three and twelve points to end up second and third for the year.

The 2000 Speedvision World Challenge was another banner year, and the RealTime boys were a big part of it. Cunningham, after taking the '99 season off as far as RTR driving duties were concerned, returned in a GT category BMW M3. Although he scored the most poles and led the most laps, he was unable to convert that speed into another championship. Still, the highlight of the GT effort had to be in St. Croix, Quebec, where the RealTime team leader secured his nineteenth victory, placing him in a tie for all-time wins in the Series.

 The RealTime Touring Car program had yet another outstanding year, winning their fifth title in six years. After campaigning two Type Rs in '97, three in '98 and four in '99, the Integra paddock grew once more, as there were now five orange and white Touring Cars under the RealTime tent. In a display of force, RealTime drivers grabbed three of the top-four spots in the points battle, with Kleinubing earning highest honors by taking five poles, three wins and seven podiums en route to his second Speedvision Championship. '98 and '99 Rookie titlists Plumb and Schrantz finished fourth and third respectively, taking home three wins and seven top-threes between the two of them. Meyer, now tenth in all-time starts, ended up twenty-eighth out of the sixty-six drivers scoring Touring Car points. At the year-end banquet, SCCA Pro Racing named this six-car effort "Crew of the Year", and Acura was awarded their third consecutive Manufacturers' Crown.

The 2001 version of this series was renamed the SPEED World Challenge, as the fast-growing cable network was purchased by the FOX family of channels, and was another show of strength in both categories for the RealTime Acura team. For starters, Touring Car lead Integra driver Pierre Kleinubing took three wins and six other top-five finishes securing his third Driver's Championship, thus bumping the tally for RealTime to seven. And in the GT Championship, team leader Peter Cunningham enjoyed a season that would have been good enough to win that driver's points race in any other season, taking seven poles and five victories in his Vortech-supercharged NSX along the way. But an unfortunate mechanical DNF midseason knocked him down a rung to second. All tolled, the orange and white cars once again took more podiums than any other team.

The 2002 SPEED World Challenge distinguished itself as the most competitive yet, with more teams and more manufacturers running strong programs than ever before. For the tenth year in a row, RealTime Racing put forth a great effort, and once again proved they’re the team to beat. In GT, Peter Cunningham’s Acura NSX led the championship for a time, but had to settle for the runner-up spot to former teammate Michael Galati in the factory Audi Quattro for the second year in a row.

And in Touring Car, defending champ Pierre Kleinubing had a new teammate, the 1995 Touring Car Champion (and team boss) Cunningham. This potent duo ran door handle-to-door handle in their Acura Integra Type Rs all season, notching up 12 podiums between them. If not for two mechanical DNFs mid season, Kleinubing would have earned his fourth title, but Cunningham was right there with consistency to come out on top for the one-two sweep. The 2002 Touring Car Championship was Cunningham’s third and the team’s eighth SCCA World Challenge Driver’s title.

The Manufacturer’s Championship was also hotly contested in 2002, with the title not being decided until two laps from the end of the year. Because of the simple fact that a Mazda passed a BMW running in second place, that handed the title to Acura, winning by one point over 2001 winner BMW. The 2002 Championship was Acura’s fourth for Touring Car manufacturers and it was the eighth such championship RealTime Racing had delivered to either Honda or Acura since 1993.

In other news, RealTime teased the Touring Car community by debuting the first Acura RSX at the final two rounds of the championship. This new model (or any other new car coming into the World Challenge, for that matter) will have a long road to surpass the achievements of the Integra Type R, as it was the most successful package in the history of the championship. Still, the RealTime RSX served notice, scoring an 11th and a 10th place finish right out of the box!

Pierre Kleinubing started the season strong driving one of the two RealTime Acura RSXs, backed up by rookie Zac Mazzotta. Pierre showed that the RSX was a viable replacement to the amazingly successful Integra platform by winning three races, but a trio of bad races midseason hurt his chances for the points championship. But just like the three other years Pierre didn't win the championship, he still earned the runner-up spot.

Zac showed promise all year in the rookie fight, but found out firsthand just how tough the competition is in SPEED Touring Car. A pair of 11th place finishes in the final two rounds proved he could get the job done against the best, ending up 21st in Drivers' points. RealTime also fielded a pair of Integras in support of the new-generation RSXs. Kevin McGee scored five top-20 results in his, locking down the 23rd spot, while a number of guest pilots ran competitively in another throughout the season. At the conclusion of the season, the team marked the end of an era, as the last of the RealTime Integra Type Rs was shipped off to the Honda museum.

A man named Plumb scored the first-ever victory for Acura's new TSX model, but is was not the same Plumb that scored three previous race wins in a RealTime Acura-it was Hugh's brother Matt Plumb that joined the team for the 2004 season. Matt went on to score another triumph later in the year, but chose to skip the finale so he could stay home with his very pregnant wife to witness the birth of their first child. Even so, he was the highest placing RealTime driver in the points, taking third. Pierre Kleinubing secured a pair of victories as well, but developmental glitches with his new mount cost him precious points too many times for such a competitive series, and wound up a disappointing seventh.

Completing the fleet this year were a pair of RSXs. Nick Esayian enjoyed a strong rookie campaign, earning eight top-20 finishes on his way to 18th in the Drivers' Championship and fourth in the rookie battle. The second RSX was shared by four different drivers, collecting another four top-20 results along the way.

2005 marked the 18th year of RealTime's involvement with American Honda, and after two consecutive years without the championship trophy in Saukville, the RealTime boys were back with a vengeance. The plan to secure a ninth Manufacturers' Championship and a ninth Drivers' title started with a five-car plan-- three Acura TSXs and a pair of Acura RSXs. The #43 TSX was piloted by three-time Touring Car Champion Pierre Kleinubing, now in his eighth season for the RealTime team. And Peter Cunningham returned to the Acura fold in the #42 TSX, after a two-year absence. Cunningham won the season opener at Sebring and went on to claim the championship-- his fourth in World Challenge and seventh in SCCA Pro Racing-sanctioned series'. Pierre had another '3W' season winning three races in a row at Road Atlanta, Mid-Ohio and Cleveland. He placed third in the points.

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Davis joined the team to drive the #44 TSX after dipping his toe in the water last year in three events. With his newbie-status intact, the Denver University freshman smashed the opposition to take the 'Winning Team' Rookie-of-the-Year award and fourth in the championship. The RSX brigade was led by 1999 A Sedan SCCA National Champion Eric Curran. His #45 machine proved to be an important part of the Manufacturers' battle. Curran's breakthrough World Challenge victory at Denver was just one of his significant contributions and the seventh different driver to win a race for RealTime. The #34 RSX was driven by returning RealTime man Nick Esayain, the 2004 SCCA SoPac T2 Divisional Champion. His comfort in the Acura showed as he secured three top-10s to take 12th in the championship.