Honda Racing will soon make engine parts from its most famous racing machines available for purchase. To kick things off, they’re auctioning pieces from the V10 Formula 1 engine in which Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger won the 1990 F1 season. After that, the company will offer up IndyCar and racing motorcycle engine parts from the Honda Collection Hall as well.
In the case of the 3.5-liter V10 that powered the 1990 McLaren-Honda MP4/5 that won the 1990 season, the engine was disassembled at Honda Racing Corporation’s factory in Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture by its original builders. The items to be auctioned include camshafts, cam covers, pistons and connecting rods. Each one will be mounted in display case and come with an HRC certificate of authenticity.
These engines will come from the cars and motorcycles displayed at the Honda Collection Hall in Japan. But fear not, they’re not canonicalizing museum cars. Honda says that the Collection Hall has “carefully selected limited collectible parts from this inventory to ensure items up for sale do not affect the preservation of the running machines.” Since the cars are taken out for demonstration runs, the Collection Hall maintains “a variety of rare curated spare parts.” Presumably, the parts for sale will come from engines that are no longer usable.
The first auction will take place at Monterey Car Week in California this August, in whichp arts from the Formula 1 champion RA100E V10 will be offered. After that, Honda is working on IndyCar and “significant racing motorcycles” parts for private sale and auction.
Images courtesy of Honda.
If by some whimsical way I got my hands on the intake manifold, I would use it on my RA24 build…
That reason is most likely why I won’t be able to afford it either.
And… does anyone have Jay Leno’s phone number?
Is this Honda’s way of funding the museum? Are there tax issues to resolve, as happened with Suzuki in MotoGP?
I may explain about this article that while it even shows how Honda’s glory days as (now) being the only Japanese representative in Formula One (F1) – after Toyota left the latter at the end of 2009 (F1 season) – have instead been placed as (in) a museum, an article I’ve tried to read in Autosport (a British publication) recently – which also refers about Honda’s F1 role – saying that how is was Honda in the series may not even fall in the same fate as its fellow compatriot (Toyota) were even before 2009 (joining F1 was a result of Toyota’s World Rally Championship withdrawal at the end of 1999) but also the race in Suzuka (a circuit being long associated by Honda as Fuji Speedway is to Toyota) this weekend would also been branded as more of marketing hype for Honda – given that MotoGP (another major motorsports series) even has Honda and fellow Japanese brand Yamaha suffering especially at the hands of European makes there as in F1. (Suzuki may have already ended its carmaking role in America thirteen years ago, the former’s MotoGP role even shared the same fate as that too, as suggesting that Suzuki and Honda are both making cars and bikes, these two Japanese marques may have no match for Toyota but also the rest as well mainly non-German European car manufacturers plus Sweden’s survivors Volvo and to a lesser extent Koenigsegg.)
In the end – as given with Trump already justified its goals at tarrifs and others, if Honda may have cheated its departure from F1 just as the former (Honda) would cheat on its liquidation like Chrysler after Fiat acquired it (2009), I think as Renault / Alpine – as it has Nissan in its hands just as Honda ended the plan to do business with it – in F1 have already committed to power its (Renault) race cars with Mercedes (Benz) engineering, therefore in turn, Honda may try to stay in F1 with its race cars being only powered with Renault (F1) tech just as if Honda were to join and compete in WRC then it (Honda) may join Toyota to strike deals with Renault and Stellantis to have Dacia – another Renault satellite along with Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors – rebadge their cars (mainly [Dacia] Duster and [Dacia] Jogger) with Honda’s emblems on. (An idea of Japanese cars with European engineering would’ve been that better off as just / fair, but the only problem facing with Toyota, Honda and their fellow Japanese corporations themselves would’ve been coming from Hyundai Motor Group / Kia / Genesis, LG, Samsung, K-pop, K-dramas – like HYBE aka Big Hit, K-food etc., which may even suggest that Japan too struggles for its kind of diplomacy like deepening and collaborating with that of Europe like France and Italy..)
Why is it when I try to auction off all my old used engine parts everyone thinks I’m crazy? frig knows.