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Originally Posted by carbsmith
Acura has never raced at Le Mans. The ARX-01 didn't run a single race outside of North America until Acura had pulled out of sports car racing and left HPD to sell unbadged cars to privateers. A few years later when they began putting them in Ligiers as well they finally started calling the engines Hondas instead of only HPD.
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You're splitting hairs. It was the same program the entire time, under HPD, they just dropped the Acura badge for a while. Even with the badge dropped, the privateers who bought cars got the same technical assistance from HPD as all the ALMS teams before them.