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  • Honda Racing Line Expands Into Karting
    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...
  • Honda Performance Development, Inc. Expands Honda Racing Line Into Canada
    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 ...
  • HPD to Sponsor NASA Honda Challenge Series
    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...
  • Honda, Acura Drivers Claim Five Titles At SCCA National Championship Runoffs
    09/29/2009 - In the first SCCA National Championship Runoffs since Honda Racing/Honda Performance Development [HPD] announced the Honda Racing Line program of support for grassroots racers, Honda and Acura drivers won five of a possible seven titles ...
  • Prodigal Son Returns
    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...
  • Making Friends and Influencing People
    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...
  • Making IndyCar Racing More Fan Friendly
    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...
  • Oh! Canada!
    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....
  • Year of the Kiwi
    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...
  • Scott Dixon's Journey
    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...
  • Great Driver Dust-Ups Through The Years
    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...
  • Planning For The Future
    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...
  • Mutoh Makes His Moves To Indycars
    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...
  • IRL, Champ Car Unite for 2008 Season
    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 Takes over at HPD
    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...
  • 2008 IndyCar Season Preview
    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 ...
  • Earth, Wind (But No Fire)
    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...
  • Franchitti’s Championship Crew a Blend of Talent and Experience
    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 ...
  • IndyCar Title Chase Comes Down to Final Turn of Final Lap
    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 ...
  • IndyCar Series Revamps Purse Structure in Attempt to Help Stabilize Teams
    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...