{"id":165657,"date":"2025-09-28T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:31:10","slug":"yuki-tsunoda-to-drive-hondas-1st-f1-winning-car-during-mexican-gp-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165657\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda to Drive Honda’s 1st F1-Winning Car During Mexican GP Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixty years ago, Honda became the first Japanese brand to ever win a Formula 1 race. Driver Richie Ginther accomplished the feat in a car called the RA272 at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix\u2014and the brand is celebrating with a demonstration featuring the same car at the same race next month.<\/p>\n

Yuki Tsunoda<\/a>, a current Red Bull Racing driver and a former Honda junior driver, will get behind the wheel of the RA272 for the run. It will be a rare chance for a current Formula 1 driver to drive a vintage F1 car during a real race weekend, although the 1.5-liter V-12 racer is unlikely to teach Tsunoda any lessons that would help when he races in a high-downforce V-6 hybrid later on in the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull driver previously ran the RA272 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/a>, but he has never run the car during a race weekend. The race-winning car has also been seen at historic races, including at Laguna Seca during 2024’s Monterey Car Week. An on-track appearance by any historic racer during an actual grand prix weekend is more rare, though. <\/p>\n

Honda has been partnered with Tsunoda’s employer Red Bull Racing in Formula 1 since 2019, a partnership that has stretched in some form or another across all four of Max Verstappen<\/a>‘s driver’s championships. That deal ends when new regulations go into effect next year, but Honda will continue on in the series with new factory partner Aston Martin.<\/p>\n

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