Red Bull Racing have announced an agreement with Honda Motor Co Ltd to race with the Japanese manufacturer’s power units for the 2019 and 2020 Formula 1 seasons. The team therefore joins sister team Toro Rosso after their switch to Honda ahead of the 2018 season.
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Nothing official as of yet regarding Aston Martin; we know it's coming but I don't think it is wise to guess it. We'll update the first post and title once we get official info and media.
That does look official. I'll discuss this with Manoah2u and we'll get back to this sortly.ME4ME wrote: ↑05 Dec 2017, 23:27https://www.astonmartin.com/en/live/new ... artnership
Seems pretty official..
I picked this out of an article based on an interview of Lauda by Servus TV, so not sure if it is Lauda quoting Marko or f1i.com quoting Marko directly. Obviously we all had suspicions that Red Bull would move to Honda in '19, but I've never actually seen or heard any Red Bull personnel say as much, as clearly.Marko insists Red Bull is happy with the terms of the new contract signed by Verstappen, although he did admit the 20-year-old drove a hard bargain when it came to money.
"We shared with him our plans for the future, guaranteeing that by 2020 we will have the best people and good options for the engine.
"We went to the Honda base in Sakura and the infrastructure is incredible. This convinced him.
"He took advantage of the situation to get a raise in his money, but on this matter he is far from Vettel and Hamilton," Marko insisted.
"If he can win titles he will approach them, but we have good prize money on top of a low base salary," he revealed.
Interesting, as that suggests that Verstappen was motivated to sign/convinced to sign because of what he saw there.gibells wrote: ↑21 Dec 2017, 10:16I picked this out of an article based on an interview of Lauda by Servus TV, so not sure if it is Lauda quoting Marko or f1i.com quoting Marko directly. Obviously we all had suspicions that Red Bull would move to Honda in '19, but I've never actually seen or heard any Red Bull personnel say as much, as clearly.Marko insists Red Bull is happy with the terms of the new contract signed by Verstappen, although he did admit the 20-year-old drove a hard bargain when it came to money.
"We shared with him our plans for the future, guaranteeing that by 2020 we will have the best people and good options for the engine.
"We went to the Honda base in Sakura and the infrastructure is incredible. This convinced him.
"He took advantage of the situation to get a raise in his money, but on this matter he is far from Vettel and Hamilton," Marko insisted.
"If he can win titles he will approach them, but we have good prize money on top of a low base salary," he revealed.
There is nothing like trust for a corporation that would have dropped him the second he didn't perform.
I've heard that before.gibells wrote: ↑21 Dec 2017, 10:16I picked this out of an article based on an interview of Lauda by Servus TV, so not sure if it is Lauda quoting Marko or f1i.com quoting Marko directly. Obviously we all had suspicions that Red Bull would move to Honda in '19, but I've never actually seen or heard any Red Bull personnel say as much, as clearly.Marko insists Red Bull is happy with the terms of the new contract signed by Verstappen, although he did admit the 20-year-old drove a hard bargain when it came to money.
"We shared with him our plans for the future, guaranteeing that by 2020 we will have the best people and good options for the engine.
"We went to the Honda base in Sakura and the infrastructure is incredible. This convinced him.
"He took advantage of the situation to get a raise in his money, but on this matter he is far from Vettel and Hamilton," Marko insisted.
"If he can win titles he will approach them, but we have good prize money on top of a low base salary," he revealed.
That does not mean their facilities are poor or any less advanced. The engine designs were premature and it has since been relentless experimental steps to hasten the catch up. They'll come good, they are getting into a rhythm now, and I, just as Honda are themselves, am genuinely excited to see what they can do with a 2nd year of the same architecture, not a new design every year like previously.RonDennis wrote: ↑22 Dec 2017, 01:20I've heard that before.gibells wrote: ↑21 Dec 2017, 10:16I picked this out of an article based on an interview of Lauda by Servus TV, so not sure if it is Lauda quoting Marko or f1i.com quoting Marko directly. Obviously we all had suspicions that Red Bull would move to Honda in '19, but I've never actually seen or heard any Red Bull personnel say as much, as clearly.Marko insists Red Bull is happy with the terms of the new contract signed by Verstappen, although he did admit the 20-year-old drove a hard bargain when it came to money.
"We shared with him our plans for the future, guaranteeing that by 2020 we will have the best people and good options for the engine.
"We went to the Honda base in Sakura and the infrastructure is incredible. This convinced him.
"He took advantage of the situation to get a raise in his money, but on this matter he is far from Vettel and Hamilton," Marko insisted.
"If he can win titles he will approach them, but we have good prize money on top of a low base salary," he revealed.
"Going back to Sakura, it's hard to describe just how impressive Honda's motorsport R&D facilities are." - Ron Dennis in 2014.
They still managed to create three terrible engines.
