By: Mark M

Mark M — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:08:13 +0000

I wonder how things with Honda will change without Red Bull? When they rejoined F1 with McLaren, it was an all-Japanese team who worked on the project, with no outsiders or non-Japanese allowed in — even people from McLaren with experience from Mercedes and Ricardo (road car supplier) were rejected who had ideas for how to fix many of the problems. This is why they were producing such junk for McLaren, and why the relationship ended. When the McLaren-Honda relationship finally broke down in 2017, no one wanted to supply Red Bull with motors (after dragging Renault through the mud starting in 2014), and no one wanted to run Honda’s motors (probably the worst in F1 history), and both were at serious risk of leaving F1. Allegedly it was part of the Red Bull-Honda deal that Honda would have to receive input from Red Bull, and it was actually Ilmor (who between worked on Honda’s Indy motors between 2003 and 2011) that fixed or redesigned the Honda motor that Red Bull ended up winning with.

This is really the only aspect of Aston Martin that concerns me because I simply do not trust Honda as they have shown extreme incompetency in F1 since the 2000s (they once designed an entire car with a wind tunnel that was calibrated incorrectly, ruining the entire season, lol), otherwise AM are my pick for the next team to dominate F1.

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