Honda Announces 2006 Motorsports Highlights.Tokyo, Japan, Feb 20, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced the key features of its 2006 motorsports program, including initiatives to promote motorsports worldwide and cultivate new talent to compete at world-class racing events. Honda's spirit of challenge is rooted in its motorsports activities. Constantly striving to fulfill dreams and aspirations through the ongoing challenge of leading-edge innovation, Honda aims to share dreams and excitement with its customers worldwide. Outline of Honda 2006 Motorsports Activities 1. Motorsports Strategy By expanding its participation in motorsports activities, Honda aims to share its dreams and objectives with customers worldwide; to take on challenges on the world stage that contribute to the development of new engineering talent; and to strengthen the Honda brand. In motorcycle racing motorcycle racing Sport of running motorcycles on tracks, closed circuits, or natural terrain. The main types are (1) road racing, conducted on a course made up wholly or partly of public roads; (2) trials, conducted both on and off the highway; (3) speedway racing, , Honda will strive for victory in the MotoGP - the world championship of motorcycle road racing Road racing can be a term involving road running, road bicycle races, or automobile races. As contemplated in this article, the term will be treated as it relates to motorsport, specifically, automobile racing and motorcycle racing. - bringing together young talent to create a new generation of top-class teams. Honda will also seek to capture championships across the full range of categories. In automobile racing automobile racing, sport in which specially designed or modified automobiles race on any of various courses. Automobile racing originated in France in 1894 and appeared in the United States the following year. , Honda aims to win early and to take the world championship in Formula One competition with the Honda Racing F1 Team - the first all-Honda works team since 1968. Honda will also supply engines to the new SUPER AGURI FORMULA 1 team, which is making its Formula One debut this year. Since it began participating in the IndyCar Series The IndyCar Series is the premier series of the Indy Racing League. Due to the legal settlement with CART, the IRL was unable to utilize the name until the beginning of the 2003 season. in 2003, Honda has captured the Triple Crown title (Driver's Championship, Manufacturer's Championship, and Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to:
 This article or section contains information about a sporting event or team. with V8 HI6R engines.In the Super GT, Honda will be shooting for both individual and team titles in the Honda NSX-GT Project. Honda will also begin supplying engines in 2006 to Formula Nippon Formula Nippon is a type of formula racing and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan. Formula Nippon has a fairly long history, evolving from the Japanese Formula 2000 series begun in 1973 by way of the Japanese Formula 2 and Japanese Formula 3000 championships. Series teams. 2. Cultivating New Talent for the Podium at World-Class Racing Events Honda continues to implement a long-range program aimed at developing the talented riders and drivers who will compete for success in world-class racing events. In 2004, Honda established the Honda Racing Scholarship to foster young Japanese motorcycle riders. Shuhei Aoyama, last year's All-Japan Championship GP250cc class champion, will participate in the 250cc class of the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. this year as the third recipient of the scholarship. Honda's auto racing activities this year include plans to begin competing in Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ FCJ Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction FCJ Football Club Juventus FCJ Faithful Companion of Jesus, Sisters (religious order) FCJ Fine-needle-Catheter Jejunostomy ). Honda also plans to further develop programs under the Honda Formula Dream Project to train drivers in all categories of racing. The Project is implemented through the Suzuka Racing School (SRS-K, SRS-F), the FCJ, the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship, and Formula Nippon, with the aim of turning out skilled young racers like Takuma Sato and Kosuke Matsuura Kosuke Matsuura (松浦孝亮, born September 4, 1979 in Aichi, Japan) is a race car driver in the Indy Racing League. Indy Racing League In 2004, he was the Bombardier Rookie of the Year, finishing 14th in points. to compete in events worldwide. 3. Expanding the Popularity of Motorsports Suzuka Circuit Suzuka International Racing Course (Suzuka Circuit for short) was a host of the Formula One Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix, and is one of the oldest and most-famous motorsport race tracks in Japan. and Twin Ring Motegi Twin Ring Motegi is an automobile racing track located at Motegi, Japan. Its name comes from the fact that there are two race tracks at the facility: a 1.549 mile oval (2.493 kilometers) and a 4.8 kilometer (2.983 miles) road course. are to form the new company Mobility Land (provisional name) in June 2006. The new organization will be positioned to contribute even more to the development of mobility in Japan and the growth of motorsports by providing more venues and opportunities for people to watch, participate in, and enjoy premier world-class racing events. The FIA FIA feline infectious anemia. Formula One Japan Grand Prix
The Japan Grand Prix was an annual professional wrestling tournament held by the promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) to will be held Friday October 6 to Sunday, October 8, in this, the 20th anniversary of the event at Suzuka Circuit. And at Twin Ring Motegi, The Indy Japan 300 Mile Race, which has been bringing the spirit and the exhilaration of the Indy 500 to Japan for the past four years, will be held April 20-22, 2006; and the FIM FIM The ISO 4217 currency code for the Finnish Markka. World Championship Japan Grand Prix will be held September 22-24. To express appreciation to Honda fans, Enjoy Honda will be held this year April 15-16 at the Suzuka Circuit, and Honda Racing Thanks Day will be held November 23 at Twin Ring Motegi. Other events on the calendar this year include the Honda Exciting Cup One-Make Race - Integra Series, as well as various participatory events and concept meetings for Honda vehicle owners to be held throughout Japan. Summary of Plans for Motorcycle Racing Road races FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix <MotoGP class> In the MotoGP class of the Road Race World Championship Grand Prix (WGP WGP Worr Games Products (paintball) WGP Wales Green Party WGP WAP Gateway/Proxy WGP Working Group on Data Policy (Eumetsat) WGP Weather Group WGP Wavelength Graph of Path WGP Wireless Group Policy ), Honda plans to race six RC211V MotoGP machines and to supply engines to one team, with the aim of capturing both the riders'and the manufacturers'titles. Dani Pedrosa Daniel "Dani" Pedrosa born September 29 1985 in Sabadell, Spain), is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer [1]. , who moves up to the MotoGP class this year after winning consecutive WGP 250cc class championships in 2004 and 2005, joins the works team of Repsol Honda Team, competing alongside Nicky Hayden Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden, born July 30 1981 in Owensboro, Kentucky, also known as The Kentucky Kid , now in his fourth year as a MotoGP class rider.
Team Rider
Repsol Honda Team #26 Dani Pedrosa (Age 20, Spain)
#69 Nicky Hayden (Age 24, USA)
Fortuna Honda #24 Toni Elias (Age 22, Spain)
#33 Marco Melandri (Age 23, Italy)
JiR Konica Minolta Honda Team #6 Makoto Tamada (Age 29, Japan)
Honda LCR #27 Casey Stoner (Age 20, Australia)
(Engine supply)
Team Roberts #10 Kenny Roberts Jr. (Age 32, USA)
<250cc class> In the 250cc class, Honda will field four riders and two teams with the RS250RW. Shuhei Aoyama, last year's All-Japan Championship GP250cc class champion, will participate as the third recipient (First recipient Hiroshi Aoyama, second recipient Yuki Takahashi) of the Honda Racing Scholarship, started in 2004 to foster young Japanese riders.
Team Rider
Repsol Honda Team 250 #19 Sebastian Porto (Age 27, Argentina)
#73 Shuhei Aoyama (Age 21, Japan)
Humangest Racing Team #34 Andrea Dovizioso (Age 19, Italy)
#55 Yuki Takahashi (Age 21, Japan)
MFJ MFJ Married Filing Jointly MFJ Modified Final Judgment MFJ Martin F. Jue (founder of MFJ Enterprises, Inc.) MFJ Modified of Final Judgment MFJ Meta Font Job All-Japan Road Race Championship Series Honda's participation in this year's All-Japan Road Race Championship Series, where it captured the series titles in four classes last year for the second year in a row, will be centered on teams run by Honda dealerships and supported by Honda Motorcycle Japan. The teams will be vying to recapture the series championships in their respective categories, running a CBR (1) (Computer-Based Reference) Reference materials accessible by computer in order to help people do their jobs quicker. For example, this database on disk! (2) (Constant Bit Rate) A uniform transmission rate. 1000RR in the JSB JSB Johann Sebastian Bach JSB Judicial Studies Board (UK) JSB Jimmy Swift Band (rock band) JSB Jay and Silent Bob JSB Joint Synthetic Battlespace JSB Joint Service Board 1000 class, a CBR600RR in the ST600 class, a RS250R in the GP250 class, and a RS125R in the GP125 class. * Main Honda teams and their participating riders have been announced by Honda Motorcycle Japan on January 18. FIM Supersport World Championship Series The Supersport World Championship Series will be supported by Honda Europe Motorcycle S.R.L., which will deploy four Honda CBR600RRs in an effort to score double titles for the fourth consecutive year.
Team Rider
Winston Ten Kate Honda #16 Sebastien Charpentier (Age 33, France)
#54 Kenan Sofuoglu (Age 23, Turkey)
Megabike Honda Team #3 Katsuaki Fujiwara (Age 30, Japan)
#32 Yoann Tiberio (Age 19, France)
British Superbike Championship The British Superbike series is the leading motorsport motorcycle racing championship in the United Kingdom. The Series, known to most as "BSB" is managed and organised by MCRCB-Events. Due to the success of such riders as Ryuichi Kiyonari, who advanced to the No. 2 spot in the rankings with most season wins, Honda captured the manufacturer's title in the British Superbike The term Superbike is used to describe sport bikes with displacement of around 1000cc. Superbikes have have lightweight frames and are powered by high performance engines. Their design is more focused on race track performance than rider comfort. (BSB BSB Backstreet Boys BSB Bayerische Staatsbibliothek BSB British Superbikes (motorcycle racing series) BSB Bachelor of Science in Business BSB Bandar Seri Begawan (capital of Brunei) ) last year. Honda plans to race two CBR1000RRKs, with the aim of capturing a double title in both the rider's and the manufacturer's categories.
Team Rider
HM Plant Honda Racing #2 Ryuichi Kiyonari (Age 23, Japan)
#9 Karl Harris (Age 26, UK)
Motocross motocross Form of motorcycle racing in which cyclists compete on a closed course marked out over natural or simulated rough terrain. Courses vary widely but must be 1.5–5 km (1–3 mi) in length, with steep inclines, hairpin turns, and mud. races FIM Motocross World Championship Series The Motocross World Championship Series will be supported by Honda Europe Motorcycle S.R.L., which will deploy four 4-stroke CRF CRF abbr. chronic renal failure CRF Chronic renal failure 450Rs for the MX1*2 Class and one 2-stroke CRF250R for the MX2*3 Class, with the aim of capturing the series championship.
Team Rider
MX1 Class
CAS Honda #2 Joshua Coppins (Age 28, New Zealand)
#9 Ken de Dycker (Age 21, Belgium)
Martin Honda #8 Brian Jorgensen (Age 28, Denmark)
#27 Francisco Garcia Vico (Age 31, Spain)
MX2 Class
Martin Honda #73 Antoine Meo (Age 21, France)
2 Displacement limited to 250cc for 2-stroke engines
and 450cc for 4-stroke engines
3 Displacement limited to 125cc for 2-stroke engines
and 250cc for 4-stroke engines
AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. Supercross Series The AMA Supercross Series will have the support of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., which will provide one CR250R and four CRF450Rs for the 250cc*4 Class, and seven CRF250Rs for the 125cc*5 Class, with the aim of scoring victories in both classes.
Team Rider
250cc Class
AHM-Team Honda Red Riders #2 Jeremy McGrath (Age 34, USA)
#10 Ernest Fonseca (Age 24, Costa Rica)
#11 Travis Preston (Age 27, USA)
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Sobe/Samsung Mobile #5 Mike LaRocco (Age 35, USA)
#14 Kevin Windham (Age 27, USA)
125cc Class
AHM-Team Honda Red Riders #10 Davi Millsaps (Age 18, Costa Rica)
#29 Andrew Short (Age 23, USA)
FactoryConnection/
Sobe/Samsung Mobile #24 Joshua Grant (Age 19, USA)
#42 Tommy Hahn (Age 20, USA)
#55 Joaquim Rodrigues (Age 24, Portugal)
#131 Jake Weimer (Age 18, USA)
#132 Billy Laninovich (Age 22, USA)
4 Displacement limited to 250cc for 2-stroke engines
and 450cc for 4-stroke engines
5 Displacement limited to 125cc for 2-stroke engines
and 250cc for 4-stroke engines
MFJ All-Japan Motocross Championship Series In the All-Japan Motocross Championship Series, Yoshitaka Atsuta, a competitor in the World Championship until last year, has joined the works team TEAM HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign HRC Human Rights Council (UN) HRC Human Rights Commission HRC Hard Rock Cafe HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) . Honda will enter three Honda CRF450R 4-stroke machines in the All-Japan Motocross Championship Series IA16 class, aiming for the championship.
Team Rider
TEAM HRC #86 Yoshitaka Atsuta (Age 28, Japan)
#3 Kazumasa Masuda (Age 25, Japan)
#952 Yoshihide Fukudome (Age 22, Japan)
* Other main teams and their participating riders have been announced by
Honda Motorcycle Japan on January 18.
6 Displacement limited to 250cc for 2-stroke engines
and 450cc for 4-stroke engines
Trial Races FIM World Trials Championship Series For the World Trial Championship Series, Honda will field two Montesa COTA COTA Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant COTA Council On The Ageing (Australia) COTA Children's Organ Transplant Association COTA Central Ohio Transit Authority (Columbus, OH area) 4RTs equipped with 4-stroke engines in a bid to win the series title in the rider's and the manufacturer's categories.
Team Rider
Repsol Montesa HRC #2 Takahisa Fujinami (Age 26, Japan)
#3 Dougie Lampkin (Age 29, UK)
MFJ All-Japan Trials Championship Series Honda riders participating in this year's All-Japan Trials Championship Series are supported by Honda Racing Cooperation with Honda Motorcycle Japan. Teams will be vying for the series championship, running Honda RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; 250Fs equipped with 4-stroke engine. * Main Honda teams and their participating riders have been announced by Honda Motorcycle Japan. Mountain Bike (MTB MTB Mountain Bike MTB Mycobacterium Tuberculosis MTB Marshall Tucker Band MTB Motor Torpedo Boat MTB Making The Band (TV show) MTB Minus The Bear (band) MTB Mozilla Thunderbird ) Downhill Races UCI UCI University of California, Irvine UCI Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) UCI Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI United Cinemas International (UK) World Cup MTB Downhill/UCI World Championship NORBA NORBA National Off Road Bicycle Association National Mountain Bike Series After taking the UCI World Cup Series title in 2005 in Downhill races overseas, Honda will again race two RN01s in the UCI World Cup MTB Downhill and the NORBA National Mountain Bike Series, with its sights set on capturing the title in each series.
Team Rider
Team G Cross Honda #17 Greg Minnaar (Age 25, South Africa)
#117 Matti Lehikoinen (Age 21, Finland)
7 Entry numbers for the UCI World Cup MTB Downhill
JCF JCF Jewish Community Federation JCF JESSI (Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative) Common Framework JCF Joint Contingency Force JCF Jacques Chahine Finance JCF Jamaica Chess Federation JCF Jewelers Charity Fund for Children Mountain Bike Japan Series/All-Japan Championship After winning the series titles last year in the JCF Mountain Bike Japan Series races, Honda will enter two RN01s, the machine that has been champion for the past two years, with the aim of winning the series titles for another consecutive year.
Team Rider
Team G Cross Honda #1 Naoki Idegawa (Age 25, Japan)
#2 Ryo Uchijima (Age 29, Japan)
Summary of Plans for Auto Racing Formula One World Championship Honda plans to pursue early victories in the 2006 Formula One season under a new system in which its Honda Racing F1 Team will operate as a single, unified all-Honda works team. The new Honda RA106 racer features a significant improvement in aerodynamic performance that combines with Honda's new RA806E engine - developed to comply with new Formula One requirements for V8 engines - to deliver superior speed, durability and reliability in a highly polished package. Honda will also supply V8 engines this season to the SUPER AGURI FORMULA 1.
Team Driver
Honda Racing F1 Team #11 Rubens Barrichello (Age 33, Brazil)
#12 Jenson Button (Age 26, UK)
Third driver Anthony Davidson (Age 26, UK)
SUPER AGURI FORMULA 1 #22 Takuma Sato (Age 29, Japan)
#23 Yuji Ide (Age 31, Japan)
IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language. IndyCar Series In the IndyCar Series, where Honda has won the triple crown title (Driver's Championship, Manufacturer's Championship, and Rookie of the Year) two years running, Honda will be the sole supplier of engines to the IndyCar Series in 2006, providing all participating teams with Honda V8 H16R engines. Honda Performance Development, Inc. - a subsidiary of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. - will supply engines throughout the IndyCar Series as part of its continuing technical partnership with Ilmor Engineering Inc.
Team Driver
Target Chip Ganassi Racing #10 Dan Wheldon (Age 27, UK)
#9 Scott Dixon (Age 25, New Zealand)
Andretti Green Racing #11 Tony Kanaan (Age 31, Brazil)
#27 Dario Franchitti (Age 32 , Scotland)
#7 Bryan Herta (Age 35, USA)
#26 Marco Andretti (Age 18, USA)
Marlboro Team Penske #6 Sam Hornish Jr. (Age 26, USA)
#3 Helio Castroneves (Age 30, USA)
Delphi Fernandez Racing #8 Scott Sharp (Age 38, USA)
Super Aguri Fernandez Racing #55 Kosuke Matsuura (Age 26, Japan)
Panther Racing #4 Vitor Meira (Age28,Brazil)
Vision Racing #2 Tomas Scheckter (Age 25, South Africa)
#20 Ed Carpenter (Age 24, USA)
Rahal Letterman Racing #16 Danica Patrick (Age 23, USA)
#15 Buddy Rice (Age 30, USA)
#17 Paul Dana (Age 30, Brazil)
A.J. Foyt Enterprises #14 Felipe Giaffone (Age 31, Brazil)
Note: Team/driver lineup as of February 15, 2006
Super GT The Honda NSX-GT Project, in cooperation with M-TEC M-TEC Michigan Technical Education Center Co., Ltd. and Dome Co., Ltd., is fielding three teams and four cars. The V6, 3.5-liter, NA (natural aspiration) engine has been further refined and a chassis with superb cornering characteristics has been adopted in a bid to win a double title for both team and driver.
Team Driver
Team Honda Racing #8 Daisuke Ito (Age 30, Japan)/
Ralph Firman (Age 29, France)
#18 Ryo Michigami (Age 32, Japan)
Takashi Kogure (Age 25, Japan)
EPSON NAKAJIMA RACING #32 Hideki Mutoh (Age 23, Japan)
Loic Duval (Age 23, France)
Team Kunimitsu #100 Sebastian Philippe (Age 30, France)
Shinya Hosokawa (Age 24, Japan)
Formula Nippon As part of its efforts to promote racing in Japan this year, Honda will supply four teams with HF386E 3-liter V8 engines for eight vehicles. Team DoCoMo TEAM DANDELION RACING NAKAJIMA RACING TEAM 5ZIGEN AUTOBACS RACING TEAM AGURI All Japan Formula 3 Championship Team Driver Honda TEAM Mugen #10 Koudai Tsukakoshi (Age 19, Japan) Honda TODA RACING #2 Takuya Izawa (Age 21, Japan) Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ) To find and cultivate talented young drivers worldwide and to broaden the horizons of motorsports in Japan, Honda is providing its full support to a new Junior Formula race to begin in 2006: Formula Challenge Japan (FCJ). FCJ will become part of the "Honda Dream Project", Honda's new driver development program which provides opportunities for rising young stars to hone their skills in the Suzuka Racing School (SRS-K, SRS-F), FCJ, All-Japan Formula 3 Championship and Formula Nippon. Honda will provide graduates of the SRS-F a chance to participate in FCJ on a scholarship, and FCJ racers in turn to advance on a scholarship to more advanced categories, helping foster the international careers of promising young drivers as part of a long-range program aimed at developing the talented drivers who will compete for success in world-class racing events. About Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 7267)(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HMC HMC Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA) HMC Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, Washington) HMC Hosted Messaging and Collaboration HMC Hoffman Modulation Contrast )(LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : HNDA.L) is one of the leading manufacturers of automobiles and power products and the largest manufacture of motorcycles in the world. Honda has always sought to provide genuine satisfaction to people worldwide. The result is more than 120 manufacturing facilities in 30 countries worldwide, producing a wide range of products, including motorcycles, ATVs, generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment and automobiles that bring the company into contact with over 19 million customers annually. For more information, please visit http://world.honda.com. Source: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Contact: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Media Inquiries corporate_pr@hm.honda.co.jp +81-3-5412-1512 Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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