Honda has confirmed that its 2026 System 1 energy unit might be unveiled on 20 January throughout an occasion in Tokyo.
The 2026 season will kick off Honda’s partnership with the Aston Martin F1 group.
After parting methods with Purple Bull on the finish of 2025, because the Milton Keynes outfit strikes to supply Purple Bull Powertrains in collaboration with Ford, the Japanese producer signed completely with Aston Martin as its energy unit accomplice.
The facility unit launch occasion might be streamed dwell on YouTube. Honda Motor Co. president and CEO Toshihiro Mibe might be current together with the chief chairman of Aston Martin Lawrence Stroll, and F1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali.
“That is the Japanese marque’s first energy unit underneath the dramatically reformed rules which sees 50% inner combustion energy and 50% electrical energy,” Honda mentioned in a press release.
“At this occasion, we’ll share the aspirations of Honda and Aston Martin Aramco System One Workforce as we tackle the problem of competing in F1, the top of motorsport. We will even clarify the brand new rules and reveal our new energy unit for the upcoming season.”
Honda added: “2026 marks the beginning of Honda’s new period in F1, having first entered in 1964. Since then, Honda has established itself as one of the vital profitable energy unit producers within the sport’s historical past.”
2026 brings in a brand new wave of rules to System 1, which incorporates energy models with a 50/50 cut up between inner combustion and engine energy with sustainable gasoline.
Along with the brand new energy unit partnership, Aston Martin will even head into 2026 with former Purple Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey as group principal and managing technical accomplice. Andy Cowell, who served as group principal of the Silverstone outfit in 2025, will transfer to the function of chief technique officer in 2026.
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