What Makes the 2021 Honda F1 Engine So Good?
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The first two races of the 2022 Formula 1 championship looked very good for Honda. Though the engine manufacturer is leaving the sport at the end of the year, it clearly wanted to do so with a bang (the
make-a-great-impression kind of bang, not the
Honda had its struggles when rejoining F1 in 2015, its partnership with McLaren resulting in disaster. In the last few years, however, Honda seemed to have fixed its issues on the reliability end. And now, the engine is also quite fast some believe it may even be the class of the field.
Honda: We did everything we could to compete with Mercedes
24 April, 2021
Honda head of power-unit development Yasuaki Asaki has said that the manufacturer “were able to implement everything” they had during the off-season in order to compete with Mercedes.
The Japanese manufacturer will leave Formula 1 at the end of the 2021 season and decided to revamp their power-unit ahead of their swansong year.
The early signs have been positive, with Red Bull and AlphaTauri looking very competitive in comparison with their rivals.
Red Bull, in particular, have taken a step up compared to last season and look to be in a genuine fight with Mercedes for both the drivers’ and constructors’ championship.