2003
Honda HI3R Series Indy V-8
Honda debut in IndyCar series
First Honda IRL pole Tony Kanaan, Miami-Homestead, March 2
First Honda IRL race win Tony Kanaan, Phoenix International Raceway, March 23
Honda wins two races and th...
Racing is ingrained in the corporate culture of Honda, in a way unlike any other major automotive manufacturer in the world. A former racer himself, company founder Soichiro Honda believed in competition-at the highest possible levels-as...
Honda's engine for the 2005 IRL IndyCar Series is designated the HI5R Series Indy V-8. This engine is a development of the IRL Manufacturers' Championship-winning design created in partnership with Ilmor Engineering and introduced at the...
Robert Clarke was named president of Honda Performance Development in April, 2005. He joined HPD when the company was established in April, 1993, first serving as general manager and later vice president. He joined American Honda in 1981...
Background: Honda Performance Development (HPD), a subsidiary of American Honda
Motor Co., Inc., is the technical operations center for Honda's U.S. auto racing
programs. Currently, HPD is focused on American Honda's participation i...
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced today that effective January 1, 2008,
Robert Clarke, President of Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), in Santa
Clarita, California, will move to a new executive advisory role at HP...
As one of the initial offerings in its new grassroots
motorsports initiative, Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), the authorized Honda and
Acura auto racing company in North America, is proposing entry into an SCCA Clu...
Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD),
the authorized Honda and Acura auto racing company in North America, today
announced a new automotive initiative targeted at expanding its presence in the
grassroots motorsports mar...
The Board of Directors of the Sports Car Club of America has ratified a Honda Performance Development, Inc. proposal to begin supplying Honda Formula F engines for competition in the SCCA's Formula F (FF) class in 2010.
Through its intr...
Honda Performance Development recently began shipping 1.5-liter Honda Fit engines to racers planning to run the engine in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Formula F competition. Through its introduction to the category, HPD hopes to str...
To the customers who utilize Honda products every day on roads and streets, auto racing reinforces the belief that Honda products are fun and exciting to use. For the Honda customers who race each weekend, Honda products provide a reliab...
A third-place finish for RealTime Racing's HPD Civic Si Sunday at Long Beach, California launched the latest effort in the expanding grassroots motorsports program managed by Honda Performance Development (HPD), the North American racing...
Honda Performance Development (HPD) has released details of a new 2010 Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Contingency Award program, providing support for additional SCCA National Racing classes and initiating awards for Honda an...
Honda Performance Development (HPD) has reached agreement with the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) to become title sponsor of NASA's Honda Challenge Series, a multi-class championship open to Honda racers competing in cars ranging...
Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), the racing arm of American Honda Motor Company, Inc., will offer a new LMP2 engine to customers participating in the 2011 American Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series, 24 Hours of Le Mans, a...
In its first attempt at one of the toughest challenges in motorsports, Honda Performance Development (HPD), the racing arm of American Honda Motor Company, Inc., powered the first- and third-place finishers in the LMP2 category Sunday at...
Honda Performance Development and American Honda have released details of their support program for Honda and Acura competitors during the 2010 Sports Car Club of America National Championship Runoffs, Sept. 20-26 at Road America in Elkh...
Honda Performance Development, Inc., the racing arm of American Honda Motor Company, Inc., today announced plans to adopt the new engine formula for the IZOD IndyCar Series, extending participation beyond expiration of its current supply...
Honda Performance Development's successful 2010 sports-prototype campaign reached new heights this weekend as Strakka Racing took its HPD ARX-01c to the overall Le Mans Series victory Sunday at the 1000KM of Hungaroring. It marked the ...
American Honda Motor Company, Inc., announced today it will be the title sponsor of the April 8-10 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama IZOD IndyCar Series race weekend at Barber Motorsports Park.
The multi-year agreement with event promote...
Honda Performance Development and its partner sports prototype teams on both sides of the Atlantic are in the thick of their respective championship battles as both the American Le Mans Series and the European-based Le Mans Series conclu...
A come-from-behind charge in the second half of Sunday's Autosport 1000 Kilometers of Silverstone saw Strakka Racing claim its third Le Mans Series P2 prototype victory from five starts in its HPD ARX-01c, while RML locked down the LMP2 ...
For the fourth time this season, the Honda Performance Development ARX-01c of David Brabham, Simon Pagenaud and Marino Franchitti found its way to victory circle in American Le Mans Series competition...