Honda F1 2026 Feature
In 2026, Honda will compete in Formula One alongside the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team as a factory team. As the sport enters a new era of electrification, Formula One serves as a proving ground to refine both technology and people at the highest level of competition.
This feature highlights the passion behind Honda’s decision, the history of Honda F1, the basics of Formula One, and more.
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Honda StoriesHonda’s New Chapter in F1: Taking on the Challenge of Transformation as a Factory Team in 2026MotorsportsIn 2026, Honda will compete in F1 together with the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team by supplying the power unit as a factory works partner. This decision represents Honda’s choice to refine its technologies and nurture its people on the world’s most demanding motorsport stage—connecting today’s challenges to the next era. On January 20, 2026, Honda held a press...
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MotorsportsA Message fro HRC President Koji WatanabeMotorsportsThe 2026 season will mark a major turning point for Formula 1 as a whole. For Honda, it will also be the start of a new challenge. Honda brought its Formula 1 activities to a close at the end of the 2021 season, and now, at a moment when F1 is being fundamentally reshaped by new regulations, returns to the sport to begin supplying power units to the Aston Martin Aramco...
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MotorsportsHRC LPL Tetsushi Kakuda Discusses Key Points of the New Power Unit Regulations and the Development Focus of Honda’s PUMotorsportsFrom the perspective of a development engineer, what do you see as the main challenges and key points of the power units from 2026 onward? “In terms of difficulty—honestly, everything. Other than the basic architecture of a V6 turbo internal combustion engine (ICE), everything is new, so it was essentially a complete reset. The basic structure, such as engine mounting distances...
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MotorsportsHonda and Formula One: A Legacy of Relentless ChallengeMotorsportsHonda’s history in Formula 1 dates back to 1964. At a New Year press conference, company founder Soichiro Honda announced, “Honda will make its Formula 1 debut at this year’s Monaco Grand Prix.” At the time, few people in Japan were aware that Formula 1 represented the highest level of four-wheel racing, and the announcement attracted limited public attention. Nevertheless, it ...
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MotorsportsHonda F1 HistoryMotorsportsIn 1962, not even the word F1 was known in Japan. Driven by the founder of the motorcycle company that had not even sold one car, Soichiro Honda’s fervent passion of not knowing if it is possible but wanting to do it anyway, Honda’s seemingly reckless challenge had begun. Honda first entered F1 at the German Grand Prix in August 1964. This year marks the 60th anniversary since
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