Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) and Oracle Red Bull Racing Formula 1 (F1) team are not yet ready to go separate ways as it plans to drive on with their winning ways.
HRC and Red Bull have agreed to continue their partnership in regards to F1. The Japanese automaker will continue to provide technical support for Red Bull Racing F1’s power units until the end of 2025.
This means that Honda or HRC will provide technical assistance with the current F1 power units being used by Oracle Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AplhaTauri. The decision to extend HRC’s technical support is due to the fact that Red Bull Racing is currently leading the 2022 F1 World Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships.
In fact, the two Red Bull drivers are currently first and third in the standings with defending champion Max Verstappen leading the pack with 258 points. Sitting second is Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with 178 points while Red Bull’s Sergio Perez is within striking distance with 173 points.
When you look into the Constructors’ standing, Red Bull Racing is leading with 431 points. It is followed by Ferrari with 334 points and Mercedes-Benz with 304.
Red Bull CEO and Team Principal Christan Horner said that the team’s partnership with the Japanese company has been an incredibly successful one.
“Red Bull’s partnership with Honda has been an incredibly successful one and we are pleased that this will continue until the end of the current era of the FIA’s power unit regulations in 2025,” Horner said.
HRC president Koji Watanabe added that the company can indeed continue lending its technical knowledge to Red Bull Racing F1.
“We have agreed to continue supporting Red Bull Power Trains in Formula 1 through HRC, following Red Bull’s request to extend our current agreement, which HRC can meet within its existing resources. Once again, we aim to use our involvement in the pinnacle of motorsport for the development of technologies and of our workforce,” Watanabe said.
As a review, Honda withdrew from F1 as a power unit supplier at the end of 2021. And what a way it was to bid sayonara as Honda’s power unit pushed Red Bull’s Verstappen to clinch his first F1 World Championship. Honda made its comeback in F1 last 2015. From 2015 to 2021, Honda won 17 of 141 races with 13 poles and 49 podium finishes.
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