18 Facts About Mugen Motorsports

In 1973, Mugen Motorsports started its operations and initially offered special parts of motocross bikes.

Mugen Motorsports ultimately intends to build its own road cars and the first step towards this was the creation of bodykits for the Honda Ballade CR-X in 1984.

The following year, Mugen Motorsports won four of the top five places in the Japanese F3000 championship.

In 1989, Mugen Motorsports entered European F3000 with the MF308 engine and won the championship with Jean Alesi, driving an Eddie Jordan Racing Reynard.

In 1988, Mugen Motorsports started tuning Honda engines for use in Formula Three, winning the Japanese series with Akihiko Nakaya, and in 1990 expanded their business to Europe.

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Mugen Motorsports continues to enjoy success in the Formula Three circuit with its tuned 2.

In 1991 Mugen Motorsports prepared Honda V10 engines for Tyrrell, but the following year these engines were renamed Mugen Motorsports MF351H and were transferred to the Footwork team, with drivers Aguri Suzuki and Michele Alboreto.

The Mugen Motorsports engine, codenamed MF351HC, was not able to show its full potential and failed to score a single World Championship point during 1994 despite coming close on 3 occasions.

The first half of the 1998 season was an absolute disaster; it was so bad that at one point Mugen Motorsports officials met with Eddie Jordan and his team during the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix to find out why up until then the team had failed to score a single World Championship point.

In 2001, Mugen Motorsports concentrated once more in the JGTC, the NSX winning two races, and finishing second and third in the series.

At the time, Mugen Motorsports acknowledged that international sportscar racing was a new category for them.

Mugen Motorsports excluded a turbo as this necessitated use of intercoolers to extract maximum performance, which added to the weight and reduced performance.

Mugen Motorsports have become the dominant force in electrically powered motorcycles competing at the Isle of Man TT Races.

At the 2013 TT Mugen Motorsports again finished runners up to MotoCzysz, with Rutter and McGuinness repeating the previous year's result.

Mugen Motorsports's development has continued at subsequent races in the TT Zero Category.

Mugen Motorsports continued their dominance in the TT Zero class at the Isle of Man TT Races in 2016, when Bruce Anstey took the honours, although their other machine, ridden by John McGuinness, retired during the one lap event.

Mugen Motorsports motorcycles achieved first and third place with Michael Rutter and Lee Johnston respectively, split by Daley Mathison riding for the University of Nottingham.

Mugen Motorsports achieved their sixth consecutive victory with Michael Rutter again increasing the lap record average speed to 121.