2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[AR3-GP]

Source?

Jolyon Palmer said it on F1TV.

Cheers. And f.uck.

It's really cruel. He doesn't deserve this.

[auem123]

And last month there was a poster asking how to mute someone(me) , when I said Honda would drag us down.
I wish Aston will contact Audi and go for their engine as customer. Macca showed past couple of years that it is possible to win despite being a customer.

[edu2703]

Alonso is on the track!

[TyreSlip]

Jolyon Palmer said it on F1TV.

Cheers. And f.uck.

It's really cruel. He doesn't deserve this.

Looks like Jolyon was wrong. Alonso doing an installation lap now.

[AhmerBaig]

Alonso back in pits after one lap.

[HondaPOD]

15 min to the end :
Alonso stint of 8 lap : 1:24.939 ( 107% is 1:25:2)
Stroll stint of 9 lap : 1:25:8

[HondaPOD]

issue for Stroll
Alonso is out with with new suspension setup

[sn809]

Stroll asked to come in with an issue.

[AR3-GP]

Newey, on the Honda engine

"This season is about, first and foremost, solving this vibration problem so that we can race reliably and, from there, see how much performance they can add to the engine"

"At the same time, Honda needs to start working on the '27 engine, because it's clear that a big step forward in combustion engine power is needed for '27 and that has to be their sole focus"

This season is a write off.

[collindsilva]

Seems AMR learned of Hondas problem in Nov 25 when they visited Hondas HQ to discuss rumours that the Japanese company would not meet its original power target.

[diffuser]

Seems AMR learned of Hondas problem in Nov 25 when they visited Hondas HQ to discuss rumours that the Japanese company would not meet its original power target.

Right around the time Cowell went over to work with Honda and Newey became TP. Wonder why ...

[isullivan]

Cheers. And f.uck.

It's really cruel. He doesn't deserve this.

Looks like Jolyon was wrong. Alonso doing an installation lap now.

KARMA

[CHT]

Newey, on the Honda engine

"This season is about, first and foremost, solving this vibration problem so that we can race reliably and, from there, see how much performance they can add to the engine"

"At the same time, Honda needs to start working on the '27 engine, because it's clear that a big step forward in combustion engine power is needed for '27 and that has to be their sole focus"

This season is a write off.

As I have speculated, if there is a need to change the PU design and layout, the entire backend of the car will need to change. AN has got to step down as TP and go back to the drawing board.

[auem123]

Newey, on the Honda engine

"This season is about, first and foremost, solving this vibration problem so that we can race reliably and, from there, see how much performance they can add to the engine"

"At the same time, Honda needs to start working on the '27 engine, because it's clear that a big step forward in combustion engine power is needed for '27 and that has to be their sole focus"

This season is a write off.

Can't even make a decent ICE in first attempt and has to redo it.
A weak engine will hamper valuable aerodynamic data also throughout the year. Even if Honda builds a decent engine in 27, that year will become a catching up for chassis side, thus also gone at midfield at most.
I hope Alonso will call it quit this year.

[zoroastar]

Honda PU has turned out to be a joke. For all talks of solutions being applied for this race weekend, the engine wont do even 1 proper lap.

This is an absolute disaster... without major exceptions from FIA and other teams, I dont see how Honda can turn around this season.

Honda seems to have put a bunch of recent graduates to work on the engine as their final project. It's unbelievable how a company of this caliber could produce something so pathetic.

Honda did the same with its 2015 engine, but somehow it was all McLaren's fault for asking for a size zero concept. People here are doing the same by solely blaming Newey and not holding Honda accountable at all.

Honda had carte blanche with the 2017 redesign, and it ended up being worse for power than the 2015 one and just as unreliable. To this day, however, the narrative was that all of Honda's woes for years stemmed from McLaren holding them back with unreasonable demands.

On that note, Audi had a respectable debut with decent times in FP1, making them look a 100 times more professional than Honda.

in A LOT of peoples minds honda will never be guilty of anything ever. this thread has turned into a mirror of the mclaren thread back in the 2010s. some of the same honda fans that have honest good insight on whats going on, and a few people that come on just to post propaganda against whatever is deemed hondas "enemy" on that week. for the longest time it has been mclaren and especially alonso. but now it seems newey is that guy, until alonso gets mad during a race and says something they dont like.

i like honda and ive owned many of them myself, including a 98 NSX. but this has to be one of the most incredible performance related blunders in F1 history.