Stoppez les rotatives : Honda devrait continuer à fabriquer et fournir les moteurs de RB et Alpha Tauri jusqu'en 2025.
La nouvelle division Powertrains de Red Bull va donc pouvoir se concentrer sur la règlementation 2026, conservant ainsi pour cette occasion les bénéfices accordés aux nouveaux compétiteurs.[...]
The original strategy as announced late last year was that the new Red Bull Powertrains division would take complete power units from Honda, with full engineering support at the tracks, only in 2022.
Once RBP had got up to speed it would then build the engines from Honda parts at its Milton Keynes facility in 2023, 2024 and 2025 while simultaneously working on its own project for the new F1 rules that come into force in 2026.
However Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko has confirmed that the plan has changed, and the intention now is that Honda will continue to supply complete engines from Japan to RBR and AlphaTauri until the end of 2025.
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“The engines will be manufactured in Japan until 2025, we will not touch them at all. That means that the rights and all these things will remain with the Japanese, which is important for 2026 because it makes us newcomers.