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Honda Racing F1 Team
During its first two generations of Formula One competition – from 1964 to 1968 and from 1983 to 1992 – Honda won 11 world titles
in both the Constructors' and Drivers' championships with a total of 71 race wins. Taking inspiration from these historic Honda cars,
the Honda Racing F1 Team car entry for the 2006 season is the RA106 and the new V8 Honda engine is the RA806E, consistent with the
nomenclature from its previous two generations of F1 competition.
The famous RA designation dates right back to the dawn of Honda’s bid for Grand Prix glory during the early 1960s. The company’s
original F1 prototype that began testing in December 1963 was type-number RA270 and it was fitted with an experimental RA270E 60-degree,
1.5-litre V12 engine. By the time Honda made its Grand Prix debut at the fearsome Nürburgring in August 1964, the early prototype had
been superseded by the RA271. Honda’s first Grand Prix win came with RA272 at Mexico at the end of the following season.
Though the RA chassis designation has not been employed since the end of Honda’s first F1 generation in 1968, all subsequent Honda F1
engines have borne the same evocative RA prefix.
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