The RA271 became the first Japanese car to race in Formula One and it made its debut at the 1964 German Grand Prix, driven by Ronnie Bucknum.

The highlight of the season was when Ginther dominated the Mexican Grand Prix, leading from start to finish to win the race.

[9] Keke Rosberg won the Dallas Grand Prix in 1984 to give Honda their first win since their return, but a lot of retirements left Williams-Honda sixth in the constructors' championship.

A completely new RA165E engine was introduced at the Detroit Grand Prix with a much smoother power delivery, and the team were quickly on the pace as Rosberg won the race.

[12] The drivers' title slipped away to the consistent Alain Prost of McLaren-TAG, after Nigel Mansell's tyre blew up at the last race.

The McLaren-Honda cars, driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, were completely dominant, taking 15 wins and pole positions from 16 races.

The closely related Mugen company stayed in the sport between 1992 and 2000, winning four races and achieving a best result of 3rd in the constructors' championship in 1999 with the Jordan team.

However, things started to improve after the French GP, Honda having a strong run of points finishes and most notably, Jenson Button winning the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Button scored more points in the last six races of the season than any other driver to help Honda finish fourth in the constructors' championship.

[24] Honda returned in 2015 as an engine manufacturer, supplying turbocharged 1.6L V6 hybrid power units to the McLaren team.

The partnership was a big disappointment, McLaren and driver Fernando Alonso regularly criticizing the power unit.

In the second race of the season at Bahrain, Pierre Gasly finished fourth to give Honda its best result since returning in 2015, at the time.

After a fairly successful season, Toro Rosso's sister team Red Bull Racing agreed to also use Honda power units in 2019.

[28] The season started with Max Verstappen scoring Honda's first podium of the V6 turbo-hybrid era at the Australian Grand Prix.

In 2012, Honda announced that they will enter last three rounds of the 2012 season with a racer based on the European Civic hatchback, developed in a joint partnership with Mugen and JAS Motorsport.

In 2013, they announced Castrol as the title sponsor of their factory team, and that 2009 champion, Gabriele Tarquini would be driving alongside Tiago Monteiro.

The Honda was looking very strong at the last round in Qatar after Michelisz broke the lap record in practise, but he suffered a brake failure in qualifying which left him out of contention.

[36][37] Honda's Esteban Guerrieri, who replaced the injured Monteiro, took pole position and won the last race of the season.

[52] In 2003, Brazilian oil company Petrobras joined the team (now managed by RAM Racing Factory) as the main sponsor.

[54] In 2009, a change in the engine regulations caused Honda to officially withdraw from the series, but the team continued to participate as Equipo Petrobras.

Honda's first involvement in Super GT (known as the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, or JGTC for short, between 1993 and 2004) came in 1996, when Team Kunimitsu entered an NSX GT2 in the GT500 category.

[60] Honda finally won the title in 2000 when the Castrol Mugen NSX of Ryo Michigami consistently took podiums and strong points finishes through the season.

New rules for 2010 requiring all GT500 cars to have a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout meant that the mid-engined NSX could not be used anymore.

ARTA won the 1000km Suzuka race in August, and Dome and their drivers, Loïc Duval and Takashi Kogure, were crowned champions in the car's first season.

The hybrid system was removed for 2016 and the car became uncompetitive, not winning a race at all, and only achieving three podiums and one pole position during the 2016 season.

The car became really competitive in 2018, taking pole position at every race, except the Fuji rounds, and winning the title by Team Kunimitsu and their drivers, Naoki Yamamoto and former F1-champion Jenson Button.

Honda became champions in the LMP class again as Highcroft Racing's HPD ARX-01C beat the Porsche RS Spyder Evo of Team Cytosport.

Honda's HPD prototypes were entered to the first season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2012, by Strakka Racing[80] and JRM[81] in the LMP1 class and Starworks Motorsport in LMP2.

Since then, Honda-powered drivers Dario Franchitti, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi and Takuma Sato have won the Indianapolis 500 respectively in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020.

Honda's Integra and mostly Civic models have dominated the up to 2000cc Group N and later the 2WD classes of the Finnish Rally Championship, winning the title every year between 2000 and 2018, except in 2001, 2010 and 2011.