With its successful partnership with Red Bull \u2014 which delivered Max Verstappen\u2019s first world title and powered the entire ground-effect era \u2014 now at an end, the Japanese manufacturer is ready to link up with Aston Martin in what it hopes will prove to be an equally winning alliance.<\/p>\n
The first Aston Martin\u2013Honda car will be unveiled to the public on 9 February, with Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll set to take to the track for pre-season testing in Barcelona later in the month.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 2026 Tokyo Motor Show, Honda<\/a> HRC president Koji Watanabe said: \u201cFrom 2026, a new era for Honda F1<\/a> will begin with the Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team. At the end of this month, the first joint test will take place in Barcelona. <\/p>\n The teaser in question can be found from the 22:15 mark in the video below.<\/p>\n Honda<\/a> Racing F1<\/a> confirmed on social media that the power unit will be unveiled in Tokyo, with the event set to take place on 20 January in the Japanese capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With its successful partnership with Red Bull \u2014 which delivered Max Verstappen\u2019s first world title and powered the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[193541,64,63,817,35119,813,816,914,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-402123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-aston-martin-f1-team","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-news","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-honda","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}