Aston Martin all car models.
Aston Martin will schedule to use Honda engine in F1 only beginning this season onwards.
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Aston Martin's road car ties to Mercedes unchanged by Honda F1 deal
By Reuters
May 24, 2023 | 9:44 AM | GMT+7 | Updated May 24, 2023
May 24 (Reuters) - Aston Martin's Formula One engine partnership with Honda from 2026 will not affect ties to Mercedes on the road car side, according to the team's CEO of performance technologies Martin Whitmarsh.
Mercedes-Benz has a roughly 9.7% stake in the British sportscar maker famed for its association with fictional secret agent James Bond.
The German carmaker is also currently the Formula One team's engine provider.
The Silverstone-based Formula One team is separate from the road car company but owned by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, whose Yew Tree consortium is Aston Martin Lagonda's biggest shareholder.
"Aston Martin Lagonda is a public company, one of its shareholders is Mercedes-Benz and a significant proportion of its power units for the road cars comes from Mercedes-Benz," Whitmarsh told reporters.
"That is planned to continue.
"We are purely focused on racing activities and we've chosen to partner Honda. We will be absolutely focused on winning in Formula One with Honda and Aston Martin Lagonda will continue to develop its own strategy."
Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Toby Davis
So it means Aston Martin to stay with Mercedes engines only in Road Cars and GT3 Racing divisions. Sports car manufacturers not always rely on using the same engine manufacturer like in F1 (only Ferrari to make engines for all divisions including F1, road cars, sports car racing etc.).
Right move? Which other world sports car manufacturers that using different engine brands beyond F1?