{
  "id": 12108644,
  "title": "Honda HRC to get new boss with Koji Watanabe set for retirement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/honda-hrc-to-get-new-boss-with-koji-watanabe-set-for-retirement",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-05T08:28:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motorsport.com",
    "slug": "motorsport-com",
    "url": "https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/honda-hrc-to-get-new-boss-with-koji-watanabe-set-for-retirement/10862191/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Koji Watanabe, the long-time boss of Honda's racing activities under HRC, will retire on 1 January 2027, with Keiichi Yasuda appointed as his successor. A long-time Honda employee after first joining the Japanese marque in 1987, Watanabe became the head of Honda's racing division in 2022. In that time Watanabe oversaw the company's merger of its four-wheel and two-wheel divisions as well as its…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}