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Associate Partner:
Honda
Honda
Performance Development (HPD), a subsidiary of American
Honda Motor Co., Inc., is the technical operations
center for Honda's high-performance racing engines.
HPD also coordinates Honda's participation in the IRL
IndyCar Series. Honda
Racing
Profile
Soichiro
Honda's love of victory helped launch a small company
into a racing giant. He possessed an uncanny ability
to develop technology for racing and adapt it to the
consumer market. At age 22, and drawing upon his skills
as a mechanic, Mr. Honda developed a V-8 Curtis Wright
aircraft engine to race on a Ford chassis. He took the
wheel himself that year and set a Japanese speed record
hitting 75 mph. Honda Racing was born.
Later that year, after an unfortunate racing accident, Mr. Honda made a promise
to his family to never take the wheel of a racer again. Soichiro began to tackle
racing from the development standpoint, producing some of the finest engines
ever to race.
Triumph and innovation. Precision and speed. The lifeblood of Honda Racing. Join
us and rediscover some of our proudest moments through the years, and honor the
man who gave rise to one of racing's greatest powers.
Honda
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