Guess they will work on the RBPT 2026 PU.
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ispano6 wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 20:59Nice to hear from Kakuda-san that the Honda PU development has reached some considerable milestones.
Article also states Honda has taken back the Milton Keynes facility that RBPT used for the past few seasons."We are aiming to submit the homologation in February next year – since we had a slightly late start, we want to push forward until the very last moment," Kakuda said.
"It's difficult to say exactly what percentage of progress we have made, but I believe we have reached a considerable stage.
"Regarding how we handle high-speed combustion, fuel-related factors also come into play. The environment is changing drastically, and things will not work the same way as before.
"However, for a gasoline engine, the eternal goal is to burn fuel as quickly as possible. We are currently building an environment to achieve something similar."
Kakuda added: "There are key timing points when both parties must finalise major components for homologation. We are coordinating with them, discussing when we each want to make our final decisions, and setting the schedule accordingly."
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hond ... /10700445/
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-honda-/10700862/F1 | Honda thinks about a second supply after Aston Martin
The Japanese manufacturer is committed to start the exclusive collaboration with Aston Martin for 2026, but the Japanese a priori do not exclude that later on there could be the enlargement to a second team, as there were several requests that came to HRC when it entered the discussion of the new regulations.
The priority is to go and win with Aston Martin. Honda had signed an exclusive deal with the British manufacturer for the supply of the power unit 2026, when F1 will debut the new agile single-seaters, equipped with engines that will have 50% electric power from the hybrid system and the remaining 50% will be provided by the 6-cylinder turbocharged endothermic.
The Japanese today support Red Bull and Racing Bull, but from next season they will be linked in a double thread with Aston Martin, being able to count on the important support of Aramco as a qualified supplier of zero-emission petrol and on the genius of Adrian Newey, whom they already know very well.
But beyond the link with the official team that is Aston Martin, Honda is also considering extending its presence to customer teams, touching on a subject that, at least until now, had never come up.
In fact, when HRC had registered as the authorised brand to discuss the 2026 rules, several teams had shown interest in possibly supplying the Honda PU. Now that the exclusive collaboration with Aston Martin has entered an advanced stage, HRC's willingness to expand its perimeter in F1 with the availability of engines for another team cannot be ruled out.
"We are a racing company, so if the opportunity arises to supply our PU to more teams, we would like to pursue it," said HRC head Watanabe.
"We are not ruling anything out. However, for now, our main goal is to establish a strong collaboration with our factory partner, Aston Martin. At this stage, we have no plans to expand our supply to more teams, nor are we there yet."
Tetsushi Kakuda, head of Honda's F1 project, is only dedicated to the increasingly strong relationship with Aston Martin, but is aware that in the medium term there could be room for two more cars to follow. The stone in the pond has been thrown...
.ispano6 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025, 05:18Yuki answering questions at Honda HQ in Aoyama (short version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL48smpjo7o
.Wouter wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025, 09:59.ispano6 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025, 05:18Yuki answering questions at Honda HQ in Aoyama (short version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL48smpjo7o
Thank you for posting @Ispano. Nice to hear he wil have a special helmet and they had difficulties to remove the old big RB logo and important the helmet will be ready in time. Also a special livery confirmed.
.ispano6 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025, 23:19.
1.There is no English summary unless I translate the dialog or copy paste every caption as it is displayed over the video, where as Youtube already has it. Unfortunately, this video has no transcript file to download. Non-lazy people are willing to hit the CC->Auto Translate button if they want to ready it.
2.Honda IS a Japanese company and they only speak Japanese at their Headquarters.
3.I've been here for many years, and suddenly English is the only allowed language to post videos? This seems VERY snobbish.
I used to provide very accurate technical translations from sources Japanese people only have access to, but I've stopped because quite frankly it isn't worth it anymore to provide it for some of the people here.
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