Honda

The Japanese car manufacturer is heading into its final F1 season hoping for a good sign-off with partners Red Bull and AlphaTauri.<br>Having fast-tracked a power unit that had originally been down for introduction in 2022, Honda says that early indications from its dyno testing in Japan are encouraging.<br>Honda's F1 technical director Toyoharu Tanabe says the company feels 'well prepared' after ...

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Honda announced at the beginning of October that it would be ending its involvement in F1 at the end of the 2021 season, but was open to allowing Red Bull to continue to run its power units beyond this date.<br>It prompted Red Bull to seek a freeze on engine development that would allow it to continue to use Honda power units without needing to fund their costly development, and avoid having to ...

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With Honda officially pulling out of F1 after the end of next year, Red Bull is currently weighing up its future engine situation.<br>It has been clear that its preferred route is to take over the IP of the Honda project, so it can keep running its current power unit.<br>However, the only way Red Bull can realistically push on with the Honda platform is if it does not have to keep developing the ...

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Red Bull is currently weighing up it power unit plans from 2022, with current supplier Honda having announced recently that it will be pulling out of F1 at the end of next year.<br>While Red Bull has customer engine options, including a renewal of a partnership with Renault, it has made clear that its preferred option would be to takeover the current Honda engine project and run the power units ...

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Honda will end its official support of F1 at the end of 2021, although its technology may yet be retained by Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri.<br>In announcing its departure last month Honda insisted that the decision was driven by a corporate push towards sustainability and carbon neutrality, and a necessity to switch R&D resources from the F1 project.<br>However Carey insists that it was ...

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While Mercedes has been dominant in 2020, wrapping up a seventh consecutive title double, the German car manufacturer is already favourite for 2021 because the car rules are being pretty much carried over.<br>But the growing pace of Red Bull, shown by Max Verstappen now regularly challenging Mercedes for wins, has highlighted that the Milton Keynes-based team is starting to unlock some ...

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With Honda having announced that it is to quit F1 at the end of 2021, Red Bull is having to weigh up what it does for a power supply longer term.<br>While Renault could be forced to supply Red Bull with engines as part of F1’s sporting regulations, the team's motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says that the Milton Keynes outfit is actually eyeing another option.<br>It ...

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The Japanese manufacturer recently announced that it is stopping its F1 programme at the end of 2021, leaving the Red Bull and AlphaTauri teams looking for a solution for the following season.<br>Honda says that it wants to switch its engineering resources to a push for sustainability, with a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, in what some have viewed as a slap in the face for F1's own similar ...

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With just three power unit manufacturers set to be on the grid in 2022 and no sign of any newcomers joining the fray, the options appear limited.<br>Given previous uncertainty from both Mercedes and Ferrari to supply Red Bull back in 2015, Honda’s exit meant Renault - the very team Red Bull was so eager to split with five years ago - looked like the most obvious option for the future.<br>But ...

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Honda announced earlier this month that it would pull out of F1 at the end of next season, leaving the two Red Bull-owned teams without an engine supplier for the sport’s new era in 2022.<br>The Japanese manufacturer’s decision has also left a question mark over its young driver development programme, which is run in partnership with Red Bull and has featured the likes of Tsunoda, Nobuharu ...

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The Dutchman has a contract with Red Bull that runs until the end of 2023, and Honda’s decision to leave F1 has fuelled speculation that it could prompt Verstappen to look elsewhere.<br>But while there is uncertainty about what Red Bull’s engine plans are from the start of 2022, Verstappen said it would be foolish to start worrying about what he should do so far in advance.<br>“I just focus ...

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The Dutchman’s Red Bull team has been left hunting a new engine supplier from 2022 after current power unit partner Honda announced at the end of last week that it was to quit F1 at the end of next year.<br>But Verstappen said that even before Honda formally notified him and Red Bull of its plans, he sensed that they were not going to stick around.<br>“I mean you could feel it coming,” he ...

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The current rules are due to remain in place until the end of 2025, and discussions are already underway about what direction F1 technology should take after that.<br>F1 managing director Ross Brawn has publicly acknowledged that no new manufacturer is likely to join the sport until new regulations come into force.<br>Abiteboul suggests that Honda’s withdrawal indicates that the current rules ...

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The news leaves Red Bull searching for a new power unit partner for its two teams, Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri.<br>Who uses Honda engines?<br>After pulling out of the sport at the end of 2008 Honda returned to F1 in 2015, the second year of the current hybrid V6 regulations.<br>The manufacturer initially had an exclusive deal with McLaren, but the relationship got off to a bad start, and never ...

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The Japanese manufacturer announced on Friday morning that it had elected not to continue beyond the end of next year, leaving partner teams Red Bull and AlphaTauri in search of a new engine supplier.<br>With the company pushing to become fully carbon neutral from 2050, Honda's senior executives believe the resources used in F1 should be put to better use to drive its environmentally-friendly ...

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The Japanese manufacturer announced on Friday that it will conclude its F1 programme at the end of next season in order to focus its resources elsewhere.<br>Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri have both been left looking for a new power unit partner for 2022 and beyond.<br>The news of the loss of Honda comes only a few weeks after both teams signed the new Concorde Agreement, committing them to the ...

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The Japanese car manufacturer dropped the bombshell during a press conference at its Tokyo headquarters on Friday morning.<br>Citing the huge costs involved in pushing its road car business towards a carbon neutral future, Honda said it had elected not to extend it stay in F1 beyond the end of next year.<br>Honda returned to F1 with McLaren in 2015 but endured several years of frustration as it ...

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The nature of the Sochi circuit, with very few heavy braking zones and long flat-out sections, make it hard for the turbo hybrid engines to recover enough power throughout each lap to run at maximum boost for the entire length of the circuit.<br>That results in what is known as 'clipping' - when the power unit runs out of the extra 160hp battery boost towards the end of the straights.<br>With Red ...

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The Dutchman is coming off the back of retirements at Monza and Mugello that were engine related, although caused by separate issues.<br>But while he expressed intense frustration after his Tuscan GP exit, Verstappen says that the way Honda has been open with him and the team about what’s gone wrong have been very important.<br>“You have to be honest with each other and explain what went ...

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Verstappen's hopes of challenging the Mercedes at Mugello were over within seconds of the start when his power unit suddenly lost energy, and he tumbled down the order prior to getting caught up in a first-lap accident.<br>Honda spent the time after the race getting to the bottom of went wrong, and concluded the problem was not related to the main components of the engine, including the MGU-K nor ...

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Under parc ferme conditions, Verstappen has swapped back to a previously used V6, turbo, MGU-H and MGU-K.<br>No penalties are associated with the changes.<br>An Red Bull spokesperson told Motorsport.com: "After spotting an anomaly on the data from Max's PU we decided it would be best to change it to a previously used PU for the race and were granted permission to do so by the FIA."<br>The Red Bull ...

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Honda announced ahead of opening practice at Silverstone on Friday that it would be introducing a set of new power unit elements for both of Red Bull’s cars this weekend.<br>Albon took a new energy store and control electronics on his Honda power unit last weekend at the British Grand Prix, but will now also take a second engine, turbocharger, MGU-H and MGU-K ahead of Friday’s running at ...

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<br>After all, rivals Ferrari, Renault and Mercedes had all spent the weeks before the start of the season in enforced shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic situation in Europe.<br>Their hands had effectively been tied on improving their engines while Honda, with Japan having escaped a lockdown at that time, was able to keep on working.<br>Indeed ...

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Gasly will line up 10th on the grid at the Hungaroring on Sunday, but was left managing an engine issue that hindered much of his running through qualifying.<br>The Frenchman was heard reporting losses of power on his engine in Q2, but was informed by the team it "cannot fix the problem in this session, so we have to live with it, or try to push to get through".<br>While Gasly made it through to ...

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The COVID-19 crisis and lockdowns worldwide meant that the FIA switched the official team factory shutdown to April-June. The power unit manufacturers were also included for the first time.<br>An agreement to freeze development from the first race meant that when the shutdown ended Honda had to race to get as many planned updates as possible ready for the Austrian GP.<br>Last weekend, Red Bull's ...

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