In addition, its staff will be present at circuits with the Silverstone-based team in race support roles.
The organisation previously known as Honda Performance Development has from today been renamed Honda Racing Corporation USA, in a move that was originally announced in September.
The change reflects closer ties with HRC Japan, as the US arm steps up its involvement in the company’s global programmes.
Honda says that “with three F1 races now in the US, the new HRC US will be involved in F1 power unit development and race support starting in 2026”.
Any R&D contribution from the US side will have to fall under the auspices of the FIA’s power unit financial regulations that accompany the new spec engines that will be raced from 2026, and which came into force on 1 January this year.
In other words, work undertaken on the F1 project in the USA will have to be fully accounted for within the power unit cost cap, and will correspondingly reduce the amount of resource that can be deployed by HRC Japan.
Source: Autosport