Honda is making strikes to consolidate its international motorsports operations underneath the banner of Honda Racing Company (HRC), and the method will lengthen to the U.S.-based Honda Efficiency Growth (HPD).

HRC was born out of Honda’s motorbike racing program launched within the early Nineteen Eighties. It operates out of Sakura, Japan, and is liable for most of Honda’s motorsports packages exterior of North America.

HPD is the official motorsports division of American Honda and has largely operated independently of HRC. It was established in 1993 and relies in Santa Clarita, California. It handles motorsports packages throughout North America for each Honda and Acura, together with Acura’s profitable LMDh program.

Below the consolidation course of, HPD will turn out to be HRC US. The transformation might be accomplished in time for the 2024 motorsports season. HPD branding on a few of Honda’s street autos is anticipated to stay, nonetheless.

The transfer is greater than merely symbolic as HRC and HRC US will mix their experience and sources to assist each Honda and Acura racing packages worldwide, together with in Components 1 the place Honda serves as an influence unit provider.

Honda mentioned HRC US might be concerned in F1 energy unit improvement and race assist beginning in 2026, when Honda turns into an influence unit provider to Aston Martin.

“Our purpose is to extend the HRC model and maintain the success of our racing actions and we imagine that uniting Honda motorsports globally as one racing group will assist obtain that,” Koji Watanabe, HRC’s president, mentioned in a press release. “Our race engineers within the U.S. and Japan might be stronger collectively and I’m so pleased to welcome our U.S. associates to the HRC crew.”