Honda has announced that it will leave Formula One as a power unit supplier at the end of the 2021 season, which means that Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri, the two teams it is currently supplying engines to, will have to source for a new supplier.
The Japanese company said in a statement that it would continue to compete with its utmost effort and would work together with both teams to strive for more victories all the way to the end of the 2021 season. The union with RBR and AlphaTauri (formerly known as Toro Rosso) has so far yielded five race victories since it began.
Honda said the decision to leave F1 was because the automobile industry was “undergoing a once-in-one-hundred-years period of great transformation,” and in order to realise its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 would be concentrating its resources into R&D in the areas of future power unit and energy technologies, including fuel cell vehicle (FCV) and battery EV (BEV) technologies.
The automaker has had a long association with the sport, and as an engine supplier had a successful decade-long run in the ‘80s to early ‘90s with the likes of Williams and McLaren, the association with the two teams resulting in six consecutive constructors’ championships.
In the 2000s its activity in F1 was spread, first as an engine supplier and then as a racing team, the latter from 2006 to 2008. Another hiatus followed, and it returned to F1 as an engine supplier to McLaren in 2015, before the eventual partnership with the Red Bull Racing family came about.
Honda’s departure from the scene means that there will be three power unit suppliers, namely Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault, for RBR and AlphaTauri to source their next powertrains from.
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Good move Honda. btw new Honda Accord looking gooder now..
What a joke! New accord look even more ugly with rear prawn lights
Honda just like Toyota gagal in F1 because their Jepunis never work hard, always tido goyang kaki, and reason why they never success. They shud learn from abang2 Petronas SRT how to win races. Combined Honda and Toyota got 150 years of automotive history yet still gagal to our 3 years old Petronas SRT. Jepunis so malu siot!
Petronas SRT = bike.
Honda F1 = car. Wokayyy kefahaman failed bhai
Dua-dua pun motorsport jugak. Kefahaman failed bhai
Hey, Idoit, bogok. Honda has won constructor championship for 6 consecutives years during 1980 – 1990. In the history of F1, only a few other teams like Ferrari and Mercedes has achieved or surpass that record. As for motorcycle, please lah bogok, go google the the history of Honda in Motor GP. Petronas is not a constructors, but a lubricant manufacturer instead. Nak banding apa, Bro?
Lu lagi bongok. Petronas SRT is running in MotoGP as a racing outfit, not as a lubricant manufacturer. If you say in F1, that I agree but not MotoGP lah. Think before you talk.
“Honda has won constructor championship for 6 consecutives years during 1980 – 1990.”
1980-1990 = 10 years and not “6 consecutives years”
Anyway: 1990 was 30yrs ago…
Correcto. Many seem hark back during the days of Senna but conveniently forget that Honda had made 2 comebacks since and both times they utterly failed. No point talking about the past when they cannot achieve successes in today’s races.
That’s why honda engine is getting koyak. And soon Honda begging to join GM. That’s why, Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault are one of the successful excellent companies these days.
More importantly is tata should join and makes india proud
Make India great again, isn’t?
Honda targetted to be supplying engines for more than 2 teams in 2017 when it reentered F1 in 2015. Instead, by 2019 no team would buy the underpowered and often unreliable Honda powerplant. They even need to pay teams like Red Bull to use their engines.
Gone are the glory days of Aryton Senna winning F1 Championship in a McLaren Honda.
Just leave it to PT commenters here to turn anything into toxic