Honda Announces 2008 Motor Sports Highlights

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Honda Announces 2008 Motor Sports Highlights
Tokyo, Japan, – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced last month the key features of its 2008 motor sports program including its motor sports strategy, and initiatives to cultivate new talent to claim the podium at world-class racing events and expand the popularity of motor sports, as outlined below.

Honda’s spirit of challenge is rooted in its motor sports activities.
By constantly striving to fulfill its own dreams and aspirations through ongoing challenges, Honda aims to share dreams and excitement with its customers.

Outline of Honda Motorsports Activities in 2008
1. Motorsports Strategy
2. Cultivating New Talent to Claim the Podium at World-class Racing Events
3. Expanding the Popularity of Motorsports

Outline of Automobile Racing Plans
Formula One World Championship
IRL IndyCar Series
American Le Mans Series
Super GT
Formula Nippon
All Japan Formula 3 Championship
Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ)
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Honda Welcomes Open-Wheel Unification
Torrance, Calif. - Officials at American Honda and Honda Performance Development are thrilled with the announcement that America's two premier open-wheel racing series have united.

"We are elated that the sanctioning bodies have elected to combine into a single, cohesive and powerful IndyCar Series," said Erik Berkman, president of Honda Performance Development, the wholly-owned motorsports subsidiary of American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
"For some time now, Honda has been clearly on record as supporting the concept of a single, unified American open-wheel racing series.

"We welcome the opportunity to provide our Honda Indy V-8 racing engines to all participants in what we believe will instantly be a larger, stronger and even much more competitive field; and we eagerly look forward to what surely will be a very exciting 2008 racing season.
Not only is this unification good for all the teams and sanctioning bodies; most importantly, it is great for fans of open-wheel racing, whose loyalties have been divided by two competing racing series."
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