Aston Martin is hard at work alongside Honda to ready the best combined package possible for F1 2026, when the new chassis and engine regulations will come into effect.<\/p>\n
In Aston Martin<\/a>, you find a team which has set its sights on ascending to Formula 1 world championship glory. It has aligned with Honda, a manufacturer which boasts plenty of F1 title success, and Adrian Newey, who has contributed to a total of 26 world championship wins. Helping Aston Martin is the fact that Newey and Honda are very familiar with the other, a key benefit unlocked.<\/p>\n Aston Martin and Honda: A future F1 powerhouse?<\/p>\n Aston Martin will call time on its Mercedes customer engine alliance to link-up with Honda from F1 2026. That season marks a new era for the sport, with smaller, lighter cars, utilising active aerodynamics, set to hit the grid.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the electrical output from the power unit will triple, while the internal combustion engine will run on fully sustainable biofuel.<\/p>\n Cowell, in an interview with Motorsport.com, described the move to works team status with Honda as \u201cliberating\u201d for the Aston Martin engineers. He likened their current Mercedes customer deal to giving them a \u201cblack box that you can\u2019t edit\u201d in terms of the power unit which they work with.<\/p>\n Able to work directly with Honda to optimise the power unit and Aston Martin chassis as a complete package, Cowell confirmed that \u201cthere\u2019s a healthy relationship there\u201d between both parties.<\/p>\n \u201cI think our team is engineering-led, and Honda are engineering-led as well,\u201d he added. \u201cSo as soon as you get into the engineering things, we talk the same language.<\/p>\n \u201cThe culture is the same. It\u2019s all about systems and what\u2019s best for the stopwatch on Saturday in qualifying, and what\u2019s the best way of covering 305 kilometres on Sunday. It\u2019s a relationship that I\u2019m really enjoying.\u201d<\/p>\n And it is a relationship which benefits from the presence of Adrian Newey. The F1 design guru, who arrived at Aston Martin in March as managing technical partner and a team shareholder, is fully focused on the F1 2026 package. He has extensive, and recent, experience of working with Honda.<\/p>\n Title-winning experience too, with Newey having contributed to Red Bull\u2019s combined six world championship wins with Honda power.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big benefit,\u201d said Cowell of Newey\u2019s relationship with Honda. \u201cAdrian knows, understands and respects them.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the thing and that just helps all the conversations. The relationship is already there, so the conversations are into the engineering details swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n How F1 2026 is shaping up<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 F1 2026: Confirmed teams and power unit suppliers for F1\u2019s huge regulation changes<\/a><\/p>\n