Honda branding for Kirkwood at Mid-Ohio

Kyle Kirkwood will become the second IndyCar driver to carry Honda branding this season with a new livery for his No. 27 Andretti Global Honda at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.

“The collaboration comes at a home race for Honda, as the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is just over 60 miles from the Honda Marysville and East Liberty Auto Plants as well as Honda Research & Development, and celebrates all of Honda’s products – from the streets to the sky,” Honda's announcement stated. “More than 400,000 Honda and Acura automobiles are made in Ohio each year, as well as research and design on components for Honda products from lawnmowers to the HondaJet.”

The Mid-Ohio race marks the one-year anniversary of IndyCar’s shift to hybrid powertrains, and Kirkwood’s auto manufacturer livery follows the one-off Honda Racing Corporation US colors and branding carried to victory lane by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou in April at Barber Motorsports Park.

“We are thrilled to have Honda represented on the No. 27 Andretti Global machine of Kyle Kirkwood this weekend,” said Honda and Acura motorsports manager Chuck Schifsky. “We’ve had a long partnership with the Andretti organization, and when the chance came up to have Kyle run a Honda-branded car here at the Honda race at Mid-Ohio, we jumped at it. It’s a great opportunity to bring awareness to all parts of the Honda brand – from planes, motorcycles and power products, to road cars and our hybrid-powered Indy cars – especially on this one year anniversary of IndyCar going hybrid.

“We have thousands of Honda associates from our five Ohio manufacturing plants and the North American R&D center coming to watch the race, and seeing that Kyle is one of only two drivers to win so far this year, and all nine races have been won by Honda, we’re hoping we can continue that streak and put on a great show for them.”