Honda's American racing arm is folding into the automaker's larger global racing program. This creates new opportunities for collaboration, potentially even on future road-going performance cars.
Since 1993, Honda Performance Development has existed as a relatively independent arm of American Honda meant primarily to support U.S.-based racing endeavors like the IndyCar V-6 and the Acura ARX-06 prototype. That is officially changing next year, when HPD is folded into the larger Honda Racing Corporation structure and re-born as Honda Racing Corporation USA. The arrangement will lead to a substantial uptick in collaboration between the American and Japanese racing arms of the company.
The restructure ends a long divide in how Honda has managed its racing operations. Previously, HPD has handled American operations like IndyCar and off-road racing while HRC has dealt with global racing, like MotoGP. The two have added operations that are relevant to one another in recent years, with HRC branding joining Formula 1 afterand HPD building the Acura ARX-06, a race car that can run at the top class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
That opens up an exciting potential for further crossover between American, European, and Japanese racing. What that collaboration will look like in process is another story entirely.
Whether or not this new structure leads to any new racing programs, it should provide a benefit to those the group has already announced. Next season, the company's entries in both IndyCar and IMSA will use a turbocharged V-6 paired to a hybrid system. While that is relatively new territory for the former HPD, HRC has already operated in that space with its hybrid motor in F1.
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