Honda recently invited select members of the automotive media to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to sample the track prowess of its new 2008 Honda S2000 Club Racer. We’ll just assume our evite got lost in the ether. Though driving impressions were supposed to be embargoed until 8/15, someone jumped the gun. It wasn’t Inside Line, but we refer you to their account of the car since it’s the only one we can find now, and we just want to know what the S2000 CR is like.

According to IL, the S2000 CR is “the most tightly focused, single-minded performance roadster on the market. Even a Lotus Elise has air-conditioning.” That last charge against the S2000 CR is really the crux of the matter, as Honda has stripped the S2000 here of all manner of civility. No soft-top, no radio, no A/C. In their place goes a curb-scraping front chin spoiler and a rear wing that will blot out the sun.