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'''Yasuhiro Wada''' (和田 康裕 ''Wada Yasuhiro'', born [[10 September]] [[1951]]) is the [[Japanese people|Japanese]] Chairman of the [[Honda Racing F1|Honda F1]] team and the General Manager of the Honda Motor Motorsports Division. 

==Career==
===Early career===

Wada joined the [[Honda|Honda Motor Company]] in 1974 and worked until his promotion in 1985 to the American Honda division. After a further five years, Wada moved to the Honda PR Division before becoming a director of Honda Motor Europe in 1997. 

===Involvement in Motorsports===

Wada's involvement in motorsports started in the year 2000, when he was made the General Manager of the Honda Motor Motorsports Division, a position he still holds to this day. In 2005, amidst Honda's increasing financial stake and growing sporting influence in the [[British American Racing|BAR]] Formula One team, Wada was made a Management Board member of the BAR Honda Formula One team. 

When Honda brought a controlling interest in the BAR team for 2006, renaming it [[Honda Racing F1|Honda Racing]] Wada was confirmed in a similar role there too.

==Personal life==

Wada was born in [[Tokyo]], Japan on 10 September 1951 and he now lives with his wife in [[Oxford]], England. Wada's hobbies include motorcycling, photography and model making. 

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