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Why Honda only Realised the Scale of Its F1 Problems in January

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Shintaro Orihara says Honda discovered during the Barcelona shakedown that it would not be competitive in terms of either performance or reliability at the start of the 2026 F1 season

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Crises, as always in this life, have two paths, the good and the bad. How to deal with them and find the solution usually lead to the first of these; something like this seems to have happened between Aston Martin and Honda after the first critical months of the team in the current Formula 1 World Championship. Its ... Continue reading "Newey and Aston Martin trust Honda again: "There is a very close working relationship"

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Aston Martin's main team believes that the relationship with the motorizer has been strengthened in these months of crisis.

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Shintaro Orihara, Honda Racing chief engineer Honda Racing Corporation chief engineer (HRC) for the Formula 1 project admits that the poor performance of Aston Martin's power unit was a shock to everyone, but he claims that they have made a lot of progress since then and also reveals that they have strengthened their workforce. Honda's return as an official manufacturer of power units in Formula 1 along with Aston Martin has had an even more tra…

Aston Martin looks forward to the next round of the championship. The Grand Prix of the Netherlands (August 21-23) will mark a point and partly in a complicated season with the staging of the AMR26B, the renewed single-seater with which they must begin to improve. After testing a new chassis in Hungary, in Zandvoort the new Honda engine will arrive to complete the change as promised by the Japanese manufacturer. As the date arrives, the team may…

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Crash broke the news on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
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