Honda announced in October 2020 that it would pull out of F1 after the 2021 season, with partner team Red Bull moving the engine production in-house at its Milton Keynes campus for the power units used by both Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri.
While Honda will aid Red Bull with its power unit, Honda’s F1 director Masashi Yamamoto previously stated the development “will be totally controlled by Red Bull but in accordance with Red Bull’s request”.
Honda started its most recent spell in F1 with a fraught three-year partnership with McLaren, which was terminated early after the 2017 season due to a lack of results and an increasingly difficult working relationship off it.
In the early years Honda particularly struggled with the MGU-H development and with marrying its engine concept to McLaren’s specific design needs, while communication between both parties also proved a hurdle.
McLaren switched to Renault for the 2018 season, while Honda attracted Red Bull’s B-team Toro Rosso, paving…
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