Since the 1991 season, Honda has driven a world champion car with its engine.
see photosVerstappens’ relationship with Honda has been very special
Honda and Max Verstappen have a special relationship. This is largely similar to the relationship between the Japanese manufacturer and the late great Ayrton Senna. Now that Verstappen has become the first and only world champion since Honda’s return to F1, the relationship has now gone down in history, given that the Japanese manufacturer will leave the sport later this year. Considering the pandemic, Honda couldn’t even celebrate Suzuka’s exit at its home track, which it owns and often hosts the prestigious Japanese GP. Now, in honor of Honda’s great relationship with Verstappen, which has included 16 victories and 45 podium finishes, Honda has thanked its first world champion in 30 years by gifting a trophy designed for this year’s Japanese GP, Which had to be canceled thanks to the incredible pandemic.
The trophy is commissioned by Honda which owns Suzuka Race Track.
The Japanese GP was scheduled for October but was canceled and replaced by the Turkish GP. The last time a driver won the World Drivers’ Championship with a Honda Power was the late great Ayrton Senna at a McLaren Honda in 1991. Ironically, Honda’s return to F1 was engineered in 2015 by McLaren, which hoped to repeat its previous success with Fernando Alonso at the helm. However, the partnership was a disaster for all three parties involved with Honda struggling to match Mercedes and easily the poorest powerplant on the grid.
McLaren was equally inept at designing a car that could do the job well with a turbo-hybrid V6 engine and the result was a car that was not only slow, but often unreliable, especially in the 2015 and 2017 seasons. Was. This led to a divorce between Honda and McLaren, greatly displeasing 2-time world champion Fernando Alonso.
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Alonso also left the sport at the end of the 2018 season after McLaren’s chassis issues with the Renault engine surfaced. In this period, Red Bull was having issues with its longtime engine partner Renault, which also launched its works team. Red Bull took a punt on Honda Power for their junior Toro Rossi team, which worked wonders in 2018 and then transitioned to Honda Power in 2019. In 2021 Honda delivered an engine it had planned for the 2022 season after its senior management. Japan decided to leave F1.
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This engine was important because it could match the high speed of a Mercedes engine on most days. And while it was bundled with Adrian Newey’s high rake chassis in the hands of Max Verstappen, the Red Bull RB16B was the car that overthrew Lewis Hamilton’s reign on the last lap of the longest season in F1 history.
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