[3] As the machine was developed during the season, it was renamed the RC111 and most surviving Honda records do not distinguish between the two designations.
[2] Despite extensive development efforts throughout the season by the factory, the bike achieved only a single Grand Prix victory.
Buoyed by the team's success in the 1961 125cc World Championship, with booming sales of Honda's 50cc Super Cub road bike and the Sports Cub C110, and the announcement by the Fédération Internationale Motocycliste of a 50cc World Championship for motorcycles for 1962, it was perhaps inevitable that the team would be keen to participate in this new category.
Averaging over 120 km/h around the TT course, Luigi Taveri and Tommy Robb could still only manage second and third places and although on a damp track at the Finnish GP, Luigi Taveri did manage to grab a single victory, overall the 1962 50cc season was a humiliation for the Honda team.
Aimed at the privateer rider for club and national status events, the CR110 proved more successful than the works machine and about 220 are said to have been sold worldwide.