- The Honda Racing Corporation to sell rare formulas 1 engine and components starting August 2025.
- The Legendary Ayrton Senna's 1990 Championship-winning RA100E V10 Engine Components is available to collectors.
- The auction is the first step in the new HRC's new memorabilia venture.
It is not a day that the parts of the greatness of Formula 1 leave the garage floor and land in a person's living room. But for August 2025, Honda The Racing Corporation (HRC) has exactly in mind. The company announced plans to auction off the rare parts of the race from the most iconic machines, including components from the V10 engine that strengthened Ayrton Senna in its second world championship in 1990, offering collectors and fans the opportunity to have real pieces of motorsport legacy.
This is the first time the Honda is opening the vault of its motorsport, and doing so with purpose. The auction is part of a broader approach to make a living, collected experience by providing fans of real F1 history fragments.
A legacy of speed and change
The Honda Motorsport story has been dating seventy years, beginning in the 1950s. The company dipped its finger on Formula 1 in 1960, silenced in 1968, then joined the scene again in 1983. And when they returned, they not only showed up – they managed, especially when it came to building machines.
The late '80s and early' 90s were a golden season for Honda in F1, thanks to a legendary partnership with McLaren. It all sank in 1990, when Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger The McLaren MP4/5B led the success, strengthened by the RA100E V10 engine-a natural goal, 3.5-liter masterpiece that provided 710 horsepower and a whole lot of wins. Now, many years later, this golden season lives in life – not in the racetrack, but under the auctioneer's hammer.
From race track to auction block
The auction is held at Monterey Car Week 2025 and will feature a selection of components from the championship that wins the RA100E that can bid the collectors. We talk about camshafts, cam covers, pistons, and connecting rods. Each part is carefully dated at the HRC's Sakura City Facility in Japan by the same engineers who built the machine in the first place, and each piece will come in a custom show of display with a certificate of authenticity from the HRC. Many people think this is about cashing in the former parts of automotic history, but Koji Watanabe, president of the HRC, has made it clear that it is about developing a long -term connection between Honda racing and the fans who are still living and breathing.
The 2025 auction is just the start. HRC has gained a bigger plan on works of auctioning a wider range of career artifacts, including signed gear, limited editions of collections and rare parts from other racing series such as Indycar and Motogp.
This auction can easily be described as a transfer to how motorsport's heritage is shared because instead of keeping the history locked behind factory doors such as the norm, Honda provides keys to fans, literally.
