11/04/2010 -
Continuing its mission to meet the needs of grassroots competitors who are racing Honda products, Honda Performance Development, Inc., will begin offering Honda CR125 parts and engine-rebuild kits within the United States for competition...
07/23/2010 -
Responding to strong demand from Canadian grassroots racers, Honda Performance Development, Inc., is expanding its popular Honda Racing Line program to make HPD parts and services available to amateur and entry-level professional racers ...
05/25/2010 -
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...
From 1998-2007, Dario Franchitti was one of Honda's favorite sons. He won races and pole positions, charmed the media, entertained the corporate clients and schmoozed with his growing legion of fans.
But, after winning the 2007 Indianap...
As successful as Honda has been in open-wheel racing over the past 14 years, in terms of race wins and season championships, a strong argument could also be made that the company has won many fans off the track because of its popular hos...
12/04/2008 -
The best thing about the IndyCar series? Close competition.
The worst? Oftentimes, it's too noisy to tell the person sitting next to you how exciting it is to watch Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan battle wheel-to-wheel.
Since its inception...
Andretti Green Promotions and Honda both know a good thing when they see it, so they agreed to once again become partners in an IndyCar race with lots of history.
The Honda Indy Toronto will be promoted by AGP and held July 10-12, 2009....
It was a runaway. Then, it got interesting. Then, it came down to the final race. Again.
That was a condensed version of the 2008 IndyCar Series season that saw Scott Dixon secure his second championship and first Indianapolis 500 victo...
You could have labeled Scott Dixon many things when he began his Indy Car career
in 2001: Promising, focused, quick and quiet all come readily to mind.
But nobody would have used the term "oval meister."
When informed of his new mo...
When Ryan Briscoe accidentally swerved into Danica Patrick exiting the pits
and knocked them both out of this year's Indianapolis 500, it set off
a small
chain reaction.
Patrick climbed out of her disabled racer and began marc...
Honda has dominated Indy Car racing since 2004, when it powered 14 of
16 race winners, swept the Indianapolis 500 and claimed the first three
spots in the drivers' championship. It only got worse for the competition
and, by 2006...
During Honda's successful 14-year run in American open-wheel racing, the
company has given several Japanese drivers an
opportunity to shine. And, while there have been some
highlights, a real star has yet to emerge.
But that co...
Robert Clarke, the departing president of Honda Performance Development, spent the summer of 2006 crisscrossing the country, back and forth between Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series events, preaching the gospel of unification...
Erik Berkman is in his first full season as president of Honda Performance Development, but he could easily be celebrating a decade in the racing business.
"Ten years ago Tom Elliott talked to me about the job [general manager] Robert C...
Every race over the past two seasons has been won by a driver representing one of three teams, but that figures to change in 2008 with a stronger and even more competitive IndyCar Series championship.
Those three teams - Andretti Green ...
In today's cost-restricted atmosphere, IndyCars aren't allowed unlimited testing like they were in the old days, but there's a special place on the northwest side of Indianapolis that for the last 10 years been the next best thing to act...
The first major driving championship of Dario Franchitti's career was wellearned, and supported by a group of mechanics and engineers whose chemistry and savvy enabled Andretti Green Racing to claim the IndyCar Series championship.
The ...
After 17 races, 2,933 laps and the usual 200 mile-per-hour madness, the 2007 Indy Racing League title came down to the final lap. It was Dario Franchitti versus Scott Dixon battling for the lead and the IRL crown and, unlike in NASCAR's ...
In an effort to help its mid-level and smaller teams, plus put more money in everyone's pocket at Indianapolis during May, the IndyCar Series is bolstering and restructuring its earnings distribution.
Beginning next year, a program call...
Honda's successful promotion of an old favorite this past summer put the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course back on the map and back on the 2008 IndyCar schedule.
The Honda 200 at Mid-Ohio, along with the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, are...
