Honda will introduce its upgraded F1 power unit at an Aston Martin filming day on Wednesday at the Hungaroring, the Japanese manufacturer has confirmed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The move comes after a torrid 2026 campaign thus far for Honda, whose engine has been plagued by a lack of performance and fragile reliability.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Under F1’s sporting regulations, teams are permitted two filming days per season, limited to 200 km of running on special Pirelli demonstration tyres. The car must be run in a previously used specification, meaning teams cannot treat filming days as full development tests, but they can gather systems data and verify basic integration.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The early outing will give Honda a valuable opportunity to collect data ahead of the upgraded power unit’s grand prix weekend debut at the Dutch Grand Prix next month.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“In Hungary, we have been supporting the team with the power unit integration,\u201d said Honda chief engineer Shintaro Orihara.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve also been able to collect vital data, which will help us come the next race. We will now take the important step of introducing our new-spec power unit in the Netherlands.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Before then, during Wednesday’s filming day, we will run the new engine in the AMR26 for the first time, before the summer shutdown commences.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Honda upgrade follows Aston Martin’s own substantial chassis upgrade at the Hungarian Grand Prix, a B-spec AMR26 estimated to be worth roughly two seconds per lap.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
That package delivered immediate results, with Fernando Alonso reaching Q2 for the first time all season before finishing P14, while Lance Stroll came home P13.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s filming day will offer an early insight into how well the revised chassis and new power unit work together.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“That is a good opportunity to check how our new engine works on the chassis,\u201d Orihara added.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honda will introduce its upgraded F1 power unit at an Aston Martin filming day on Wednesday at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-548266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}