Robert Clarke

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  mini7.co.uk/story.asp?NewsID=19436 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/20/2007    Last Visited: 10/20/2007  

  "We came into the 2007 season wanting to learn about sports car racing," said Robert Clarke, president, Honda PerformanceDevelopment.

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  Published on: 6/3/2007    Last Visited: 12/23/2007  

  Robert Clarke (President, Honda Performance Development) on today's race: "It was another successful weekend for Honda, with 100% reliability throughout the weekend in our first short-track event of the year.

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  Published on: 5/1/2008    Last Visited: 5/12/2008  

  Robert Clarke, the departing president of Honda Performance Development, spent the summer of 2006 crisscrossing the country, back and forth between Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series events, preaching the gospel of unification.
  
  He talked to drivers, owners, sponsors, manufacturers and promoters on both sides and tried to find some middle ground so they could co-exist.His efforts were in vain, however, as nothing could be resolved."It seemed they were both going in opposite directions," he lamented at that time.
  
  When he announced last year that he would be stepping down, Clarke said his only regret in 15 years of open-wheel racing was not being able to help achieve peace.
  
  But he got a pleasant surprise in February when Tony George, Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerald Forsythe agreed to bury the hatchet instead of each other.
  
  "Best retirement present I could have asked for," said Clarke, who will serve as a consultant through June for HPD and will finally get to see Honda engines in a unified Indianapolis 500, as well as a single open-wheel series after 13 years of division.

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 9/13/2008  

  Berkman replaced longtime HPD president Robert Clarke in January, 2008.

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  www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=9656 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 12/5/2007  

  The project arose when IndyCar Series officials and Honda Performance Development president Robert Clarke visited the Art Center of Design in the spring.

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  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 6/7/2008  

  At least one of them apparently was approved by Honda because Robert Clarke, the former president of U.S.-based Honda Performance Development, said today that he is optimistic merger talks with Champ Car can continue.

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  Published on: 1/2/2008    Last Visited: 1/6/2008  

  1. IndyCar Series bids Clarke adieu: Robert Clarke, who has been the guiding force at Honda Performance Development since its inception in 1993, began a new chapter with the company Jan. 2 that will allow a smooth transition for his successor, Erik Berkman.
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  Clarke, a 27-year Honda associate, will hold the executive advisory role until his retirement June 30.
  
  "Robert's been a good open-wheel supporter and a fan of Indy car racing and that's a great tribute to him in itself," said Brian Barnhart, president of the competition and operations divisions of the sanctioning Indy Racing League.
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  "The performance and reliability of the Honda engine is unparalleled, and that's much to Robert's credit.
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  "Robert has guided HPD in a strategically right direction to allow us to capitalize so that we could introduce 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol," IndyCar Series senior technical director Les Mactaggart said.
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  Resting on its laurels won't do for Clarke and HPD associates.
  
  "Robert loves open-wheel racing and wants it to reach its full potential," said Terry Angstadt, president of the commercial division of the Indy Racing League.
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  "Robert has been instrumental to the success of the IndyCar Series," Andretti Green Racing co-owner Michael Andretti said.

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  Published on: 6/10/2007    Last Visited: 12/10/2007  

  Robert Clarke (President, Honda Performance Development) on today?s race: ?It was another successful weekend for Honda, with 100 per cent reliability throughout the weekend in hot and humid weather conditions and at a high-banked superspeedway.

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  www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=274406&FS=IRL - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/1/2007    Last Visited: 3/19/2008  

  TORRANCE, Calif., November 1, 2007 -- American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced today that effective January 1, 2008, Robert Clarke, President of Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), in Santa Clarita, California, will move to a new executive advisory role at HPD, a position he will hold until his retirement from Honda on June 30, 2008.
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  Robert Clarke, a 27-year Honda associate, has been the guiding force at Honda Performance Development since its inception in 1993, when Robert established the new Honda racing subsidiary in Santa Clarita.During Robert's 15-year term at HPD, Honda's on-track accomplishments have been legendary, starting with Honda's record in CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) racing, where Honda won four Manufacturers' Championships ('96, '98,'99, '01) and 65 races prior to moving into the Indy Racing League in 2003.

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  www.mynameisirl.com/2006_08_01_archive.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2006    Last Visited: 4/17/2008  

  It seems Mario Andretti and Honda's Robert Clarke were urging the the two series to consider staging an event featuring both the IRL and ChampCar on the same track, but in separate races.

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