racing company industry sports car racing founded 1993 headquarters santa clarita california area served worldwide products race cars racing motors racing products parent american honda motor co. website hpd.honda.com honda performance development inc. hpd is a subsidiary of american honda motor co. 1 2 3 4 which was established in 1993 and is based in santa clarita california . it is the technical operations center for honda s american motorsports programs and is involved in the design and development of race engines and chassis for auto racing series such as the indycar series american le mans series alms le mans series lms fia world endurance championship wec and super gt . 5 contents 1 sports car racing 2 2012 racing season 3 references 4 external links sports car racing edit in 2006 honda through its acura brand announced their plans to develop a le mans prototype program for the alms competing in the lmp2 class for the initial year of competition in 2007 . the new car called acura arx 01a was a homologated development of chassis from courage with a new 3.4 liter v8 the maximum size allowed by the rules being developed by hpd . this was the first v8 ever branded as an acura as well as the first racing honda engine built entirely outside japan . elements of the acura v8 dubbed the al7r share similar architecture with the honda engine used in the indy racing league although none of the parts are interchangeable . in 2010 honda dropped the acura name in favour of hpd and the car is now known as the hpd arx 01 . arx 01 arx 02 arx 03 in 2007 hpd supplies vemac rd320r and vemac rd408r for gt300 cars in super gt series with designation c32b . 2012 racing season edit for the 2012 racing season hpd has decided to forego having a works team and instead focus on being a chassis and engine provider . 2012 will also see the hpd return to the premier class of racing lmp1 in the le mans and fia world endurance championship series . fia world endurance championship 6 class team chassis engine lmp1 strakka racing arx 03a hpd lm v8 lmp1 jrm racing arx 03a hpd lm v8 lmp2 starworks motorsport arx 03b hpd hr28tt v6 american le mans series championship 6 class team chassis engine lmp1 muscle milk racing arx 03a hpd lm v8 lmp2 level 5 motorsports arx 03b hpd hr28tt v6 lmp2 black swan racing lola b11 80 coupe hpd hr28tt v6 references edit graves gary 23 may 2008 . open wheel racing s unification revs up honda s workload . usa today . retrieved 10 february 2010 . honda gets respect with its indycar . the washington times . retrieved 10 february 2010 . hondas under hood have hogan rahal bringing up rear . st. louis post dispatch . 17 may 1994 . retrieved 10 february 2010 . honda toyota at it again . . los angeles daily news . retrieved 10 february 2010 . welcome to honda performance development inc. hpd . honda . retrieved 10 february 2010 . a b 1 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to honda performance development . honda performance development official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title honda performance development & oldid 737604086 categories hondaofficial motorsports and performance division of automakerssanta clarita californiahidden categories commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages espa olfran ais svenska edit links this page was last modified on 3 september 2016 at 22 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view