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In 1954, Soichiro Honda declared the company's intention to enter the Isle of Man TT in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. The machines were developed for five years, and Honda entered the event in 1959 with the RC142 bike, securing 6th, 7th, 8th, and 11th place, and capturing the Manufacturers' Team Award. In 1961, Honda achieved victories at the Isle of Man TT with Mike Hailwood, and also won the 250cc and 125cc class titles in the 1961 World Grand Prix season. In 1962, Soichiro Honda decided to enter Formula One. After development, they debuted at the 1964 German Grand Prix with the RA271. Richie Ginther took Honda's first Formula One victory at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix with the Honda RA272.

The Japanese Grand Prix started at the Honda-owned Suzuka Circuit in 1963. In 1964, Honda S600 cars dominated the 1000cc and below class at the race. Honda established the Racing Service Club (RSC) in 1965 within the Suzuka Circuit. A Honda S800 RSC won the GT-1 class in the 1968 12 Hours of Suzuka, finishing third overall.

Honda first entered Formula One in 1964 with their RA271 model. The RA271 was the first Japanese car to race in Formula One, debuting at the 1964 German Grand Prix driven by Ronnie Bucknum. Honda entered the full 1965 season with the RA272, with Richie Ginther joining Bucknum. Ginther secured Honda's first Formula One victory at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix.

Honda debuted the RA273 in 1966, featuring a new 3.0L V12 engine. The car achieved a podium at the South African Grand Prix in 1967. John Surtees was Honda's sole driver in 1967, winning the Italian Grand Prix with the RA300, which was the car's debut race. Surtees finished fourth in the drivers' championship and Honda finished fourth in the constructors' championship.

The RA301, introduced in 1968, was an upgraded version of the RA300. Honda focused on developing the RA302. John Surtees refused to drive it at the French Grand Prix due to safety concerns, and Jo Schlesser suffered a fatal accident in the car. Surtees finished second in the RA301 at the Italian Grand Prix and secured a pole position and a podium at the United States Grand Prix. Honda left Formula One at the end of the season.

Honda returned to Formula One in 1983 as an engine manufacturer, supplying engines to the Spirit team. By the end of 1983, Honda began its association with the Williams team. Honda engines showed good performance but were unreliable. Keke Rosberg won the Dallas Grand Prix in 1984, marking Honda's first win since their return, but Williams-Honda finished sixth in the constructors' championship.

Honda started 1985 with upgraded versions of the RA164E. A new RA165E engine was introduced at the Detroit Grand Prix, and Rosberg won the race. Williams-Honda won the last three races of the season to finish fourth in the constructors' championship.

The new RA166E for 1986 was powerful and reliable. Williams-Honda won the constructors' championship with nine wins. It was Honda's first title in Formula One.

Honda began supplying Lotus in 1987. Honda engines dominated the season, taking 11 wins and 13 pole positions. Nelson Piquet won the drivers' championship, and Williams-Honda won the constructors' championship.

For 1988, Honda supplied engines to McLaren, ending their deal with Williams. The McLaren-Honda cars, driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, were dominant, taking 15 wins and pole positions from 16 races. Senna won the Drivers' Championship, and McLaren-Honda won the Constructors' Championship.

Honda introduced a naturally aspirated 3.5L V10 for the new regulations in 1989. The team scored 10 wins and 15 pole positions. McLaren-Honda won the constructors' championship and Prost the drivers' title. The V10 was retained for 1990, and the team won the constructors' title again, while Senna won the drivers' title.

A new 3.5L V12 was introduced for 1991. The team won the constructors' and drivers' championships.

Honda announced their departure after 1992. McLaren-Honda finished 2nd in the constructors' standings. The closely related Mugen company continued in the sport between 1992 and 2000, winning four races.

Honda returned in 2000, supplying engines to BAR. BAR-Honda's best season was 2004, when they finished 2nd in the constructors' championship.

Honda fully bought BAR in 2005, and it became the Honda team for 2006. Jenson Button won the Hungarian Grand Prix, and Honda finished fourth in the constructors' championship.

After two difficult seasons, Honda left Formula One after the 2008 season.

Honda returned in 2015 as an engine manufacturer, supplying power units to the McLaren team. McLaren and Honda split after the 2017 season, having achieved a best result of 6th in the constructors' standings in 2016.

Honda signed a deal to supply Toro Rosso for 2018. Pierre Gasly finished fourth at the Bahrain Grand Prix, giving Honda its best result since returning. In 2019, Red Bull Racing also used Honda power units. Max Verstappen scored Honda's first podium of the V6 turbo-hybrid era at the Australian Grand Prix. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Verstappen scored Honda's first victory of the V6 turbo-hybrid era. Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last race of the season.

Honda announced in October 2020 that they would be ending its F1 engine program at the end of the 2021 season.

Honda first participated in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) with the Accord from 2005 to 2008. In 2012, Honda entered the last three rounds of the season with a racer based on the European Civic hatchback. The car got its first podium at the Race of Macau that year.

In 2013, the Civic won four races, three pole positions, and finished on the podium 20 times, helping Honda to win the Manufacturers' World Championship.

During the period between 2014 and 2016, Honda finished runner-up in the championship every year. Norbert Michelisz won the independents' title in 2015 with the Civic.

In 2017, Honda and their driver Tiago Monteiro were leading the championships after 12 races, but Monteiro suffered a crash. At the next round in China, all Hondas were disqualified. Esteban Guerrieri took pole position and won the last race of the season. Honda ultimately missed out on their second title.

Honda first joined the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in 1995, using the Accord. David Leslie got Honda's first podium that year. In 1996, Leslie took three wins and finished fourth in the drivers' championship.

In 1997, the team was run by Prodrive. Honda finished third in the manufacturers' championship, and Robb Gravett won the independent's championship in a Honda Accord.

WSR replaced Prodrive in running the Honda team for 1999. Honda finished second in the manufacturers' championship with five wins. In 2000, the teams won seven races, and Honda finished second in the manufacturers' championship.

The Honda Civic Type R was used between 2002 and 2004, achieving 14 wins and a best result of second in the manufacturers championship.

In 2005, Team Dynamics converted a pair of Honda Integra Type R's into BTC Touring racers. Matt Neal won the drivers' championship in 2005 and 2006, and Team Dynamics won the teams' championship in the same years.

Dynamics switched to the Civic in 2007. In 2010, Team Dynamics became the works Honda team. Honda won the manufacturers' and teams' championships in 2010. In 2011, Honda again won both the manufacturers' and teams' titles, with Matt Neal winning the drivers' championship ahead of his teammate Gordon Shedden. Honda again won the three titles in 2012 and 2013.

Honda switched to the tourer version of the Civic in 2014. For 2015, they changed to the Civic Type R, winning the manufacturers' championship and Shedden the drivers' championship. Shedden won the drivers' championship again in 2016.

Honda introduced the FK8 Civic Type R for 2018. It finished second in the manufacturers' and teams' standings that year. The FK8 Civic Type R won the teams' championship in 2019.

Honda partner JAS Motorsport has built three variants of the Honda Civic for the customer-based TCR category: the FK2, FK7 and FL5. These models have been used by customers to win over 600 races and 125 championships, helping the car to clinch the global TCR Model of the Year title in 2019, 2020 and 2024. This tally includes championship wins in various TCR series globally.

Honda entered the Argentine TC2000 championship in 1997. Omar Martínez and Juan Manuel Silva won the drivers' championship with Honda in 1998 and 1999, respectively. José María López won the championship in 2008 and 2009. Honda officially withdrew from the series in 2009 but the team continued to participate. Honda returned to officially support the Sportteam when the championship was transformed into the Súper TC2000. Honda returned again in 2019 with the new tenth generation Civics.

Honda has won the Japanese Touring Car Championship in 1996 and 1997, the European Touring Car Cup in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016, the SCCA World Challenge TC class in various years, the Argentine Turismo Nacional in various years, and the TCR International Series teams' championship in 2017.

Honda's first involvement in Super GT came in 1996. Honda introduced a new NSX for 1997 built specifically to the GT500 regulations. By the end of the season, Honda had taken two podiums and two pole positions.

In 1998, Nakajima Racing joined Honda. Honda won the last four races of the season. In 1999, Honda started with back-to-back wins, extending their record of consecutive victories to six.

Honda finally won the title in 2000 when the Castrol Mugen NSX of Ryo Michigami consistently took podiums. Mugen × Dome Project won the teams' title. Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) joined Honda and took their first win with them at Fuji.

Honda came close to winning the title in 2001. In 2002, Mugen × Dome Project won the teams' championship.

In 2004, Honda introduced a turbocharged 3.0L V12 engine. In 2005, Honda returned to the naturally aspirated 3.0L V12 and became competitive again. Honda dominated the 2007 season as their teams' took the top four spots in the championship. ARTA, driven by Ralph Firman and Daisuke Ito, became the first ever team in the series' history to win the title before the final race was run.

Due to the domination of 2007, the NSX was given more weight handicaps for 2008. In 2009, Honda came back in the championship fight. ARTA finished runner-up and won at Fuji and at the final race of the season.

New rules for 2010 required all GT500 cars to have a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout, meaning the mid-engined NSX could not be used. Honda replaced it with the HSV-010 GT. ARTA won the 1000km Suzuka race in August, and Dome and their drivers were crowned champions in the car's first season.

The car continued to be used for the next three seasons, winning the 1000 km Suzuka race in 2011 and 2013.

New regulations for 2014 allowed mid-engined cars again and required all cars to use 2.0L turbocharged inline-four engines. Honda introduced the NSX Concept-GT that had a hybrid system. The car got its first win at Fuji in 2014. The hybrid system was removed for 2016, and the car became uncompetitive.

For 2017, Honda introduced a new NSX based on the production version. Nakajima Racing won the final 1000 km Suzuka with it in 2017. The car became really competitive in 2018, winning the title by Team Kunimitsu and their drivers, Naoki Yamamoto and Jenson Button.

Honda first entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1994 with three NSX GT2 models. All cars finished the race, with the best placed of them finishing sixth in its class.

Honda returned for 1995 with two turbocharged NSX GT1's and an NSX GT2. Car 84, driven by Keiichi Tsuchiya, Kunimitsu Takahashi and Akira Iida, won the GT2 class and finished eighth overall.

Only one NSX returned for 1996, finishing on the podium in the GT2 class.

After a fourteen-year absence, Honda returned to Le Mans in 2010 with two ARX-01C prototypes entered in the LMP2 class. The Strakka Racing car won the LMP2 class and finished fifth overall, on Honda's LMP2 debut.

Two ARX-01d cars returned for 2011. In the following year, Starworks Motorsport won the LMP2 class with the ARX-03b, while JRM finished as the second highest LMP1 privateer team. Strakka Racing returned in 2013 with the ARX-03c and finished as the highest placed LMP1 privateer team.

Honda entered the American Le Mans Series in 2007 under the Acura name in the LMP2 class. They won their first race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. In 2008, the Acura's won six of the seven races.

In 2009, they joined the LMP1 class alongside LMP2. Acura ended up as champions in both classes.

The Acura name was changed to Honda Performance Development (HPD) for 2010. Honda became champions in the LMP class again. Further championships followed in 2012 and 2013 with the HPD ARX-03a.

In 2014, ALMS merged with RSCS and became the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Honda finished third in the manufacturers' championship in the first two years. In 2016, Honda won the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring and the Petit Le Mans, which gave Honda the Manufacturers' Endurance Cup title.

Honda competed in the GTD class with the Acura NSX GT3. The car won two races and finished fourth in the manufacturers' championship. In the following season, Acura finished second in the manufacturers' championship in the GTD class.

Honda returned to the Prototype class in 2018 with the Acura ARX-05. The car scored its first win at Mid-Ohio that year, finishing second in the manufacturers' championship. 2019 was a successful year for Acura, as they won the drivers', teams' and manufacturers' championships in the Prototype class. The NSX GT3 also won the drivers' and teams' championships in the GTD class.

Honda's HPD prototypes were entered to the first season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2012. Starworks Motorsport won the LMP2 Trophy title, including a class-win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For the following year in 2013, Strakka Racing entered a HPD ARX-03c into the LMP1 class and won against other privateer teams at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Honda started competing in IndyCar, sanctioned by CART, in 1994, winning their first race in 1995. Their first manufacturers' and drivers' championships came in 1996. Honda left the CART sanctioned series after 2002.

Honda joined the IndyCar Series in 2003. Honda won the manufacturers' championship in 2004 and 2005, and the drivers' championship was won by Honda-powered drivers in 2004 and 2005. Honda also won the Indianapolis 500 in 2004 and 2005. Between 2003 and 2005, Honda scored 28 wins from 49 races.

As Toyota and Chevrolet left the series after 2005, Honda became the only engine manufacturer of the series in 2006, a role which lasted through 2011. During the Indy 500s between 2006 and 2011, there were no engine related retirements for six years in a row.

Other manufacturers returned in 2012 as Chevrolet and Lotus joined the series. Since then, Honda-powered drivers have won the Indianapolis 500 respectively in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. Honda-powered Scott Dixon won the drivers' title in 2008, 2013, 2018, and 2020 while Honda won the manufacturers' title in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2025.

Honda is the sponsor of the Honda Indy in Toronto, Canada.

Honda has been competing in Super Formula since 1981, winning the championship in their first year as Satoru Nakajima became champion. Honda's engines continued to win the championship for the next six years until 1988, when the closely related Mugen company replaced Honda. Honda replaced Mugen in 2006, while Toyota also joined the series. Since then, Honda engines have won championships in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Honda dominated Formula Two racing in 1966. Honda returned to Formula Two in 1981, supplying the Ralt team. Ralt-Honda won the championship in their first season together in 1981 and further championships followed in 1983 and 1984.

Formula 3000 replaced Formula Two in 1985.

Honda won the 2WD manufacturers' championship of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge/European Rally Championship in 2011, 2013 and 2014 with the Civic Type R R3. Honda also won the Australian Rally Championship in 2012 and 2013 with the Jazz. Honda's Integra and mostly Civic models have dominated the up to 2000cc Group N and later the 2WD classes of the Finnish Rally Championship, winning the title every year between 2000 and 2018, except in 2001, 2010 and 2011.

The division 2 class of the FIA European Rallycross Championship was won with the Honda Civic Type R in 2007 and 2008. Honda entered the Global RallyCross Championship in 2016 and 2017 with the Civic Coupe. They took 10 podiums and a victory and finished third in the manufacturers' championship in both seasons.

The Honda Ridgeline won the Stock Mini class of the Baja 1000 in 2008 and 2010, and Class 2 in 2015. It also won Class 7 of the Baja 500 in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Team HRC is the official Japanese factory team of Honda in WSBK.

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