Even though the 2025 IndyCar season is not yet complete, Honda has been awarded the manufacturers’ championship.
In America’s top open wheel series, cars are powered by one of two engines. Honda and Chevrolet compete against each other to supply the best and most reliable engines to their customers on the grid.
With nearly equal numbers of competitors fitting each engine to the back of their cars, the battle can be quite intense between the two to secure bragging rights.
Helped by Alex Palou’s dominance, Honda has now secured its 11th manufacturers’ championship, and its fifth in the past eight years.
“We have the privilege of sitting here, but we’re just representing the hard work of an amazing group of men and women,” said SRC President David Salters.
“So ‘Thank you’ is the theme. To watch people achieve what they achieved through being smart and working hard is the greatest privilege we can have.
“What do we think? How do we respond? It’s ‘Thank you’ to all our men and women, teams men and women, everybody.
“A racing car is a sum of the parts,” continued Salters, addressing Palou’s dominance in recent years.
“It’s never one thing. It’s a collection of everything, in my experience. I’ve only been doing it for 30 years, so I’m still learning a lot.
“It’s the sum of the parts. I think between the efforts we’ve put into it, we weren’t happy where we were last year, so we worked really, really hard over the winter.
“CGR is performing at huge heights. All the boys and girls, HRC we’ve stepped up to huge heights.
“Alex Palou, we are witnessing a generational talent. But then Kyle, another huge talent. Scott Dixon is still Scott Dixon. So it’s all these things that go together.”
Honda has secured 12 wins out of 16 events so far this year, most coming at the hands of Palou.
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