Honda Trackside General Manager and Chief Engineer, Shintaro Orihara, looks ahead to the upcoming 2026 F1 Dutch GP, where the Japanese manufacturer will provide the Aston Martin F1 Team with a new Power Unit specification to improve performance and reliability, thereby aiding the team’s progress. Aston Martin experienced a rough start to the 2026 F1…
Nikolas Tombazis, Single Seater Director at the FIA, recently spoke to select media in an interview about F1’s Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities (ADUO) system. The ADUO system has been talked about a lot this season. The system was originally designed as a safety net to help manufacturers bridge performance gaps. Now it has instead…
The 2026 F1 Hungarian GP was an encouraging weekend for Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, who took the chequered flag in P14, his best finish in the last five races. It was an equally positive weekend for his teammate Lance Stroll, who finished in P13, his highest position of the 2026 F1 season. On race day,…
As F1 gears up for the 2026 Hungarian GP, Fernando Alonso has shed more light on Aston Martin’s approach to race weekends going forward, what they expect from their first major upgrades of the season, how they would fare in Budapest, and his confidence in the team’s abilities and Adrian Newey’s leadership. Since the very…
Ahead of the 2026 F1 Belgian GP, Honda said it expects the long straights and limited energy-recovery opportunities at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps to pose challenges for both drivers and engineers. Aston Martin has continuously struggled with a significant performance deficit since the beginning of the 2026 F1 season. The lack of performance is a result…
As F1 gears up for the 2026 British GP weekend, Shintaro Orihara has shed more light on how Honda are striving to improve the AMR26’s engine, when the new upgrade package is arriving, how much horsepower gain they are anticipating, the dyno programmes they are running, and whether they are expecting Aston Martin to be…
As F1 gears up for the Austrian GP this weekend, Fernando Alonso has opened up about the rumours linking him to Alpine, his commitment to Aston Martin, online abuse, their timeline for upgrades, and the hard work the entire team is putting into turning their difficult 2026 season around. Alonso has yet to decide whether…
Following what was yet another weekend to forget for Aston Martin and Honda at the Barcelona-Catalunya GP, with both cars beginning from the last row and failing to finish, the Silverstone outfit heads to the F1 Austrian GP for another double-header weekend and a rookie FP1 session with Jack Crawford set to race in place…
Mike Krack and Shintaro Orihara opened up about the improvements Aston Martin and Honda can bring about prior to official upgrades, what they seek to achieve with the ADUO allowance, and whether the upgraded power unit will arrive post-summer break following their point-less finish at the 2026 F1 Canadian GP last month. Unlike several other…
Aston Martin had yet another difficult race at the F1 Canadian GP, with Fernando Alonso retiring with what turned out to be a seat positioning issue and Lance Stroll finishing 15th. In comments after the race in a print media session, Chief Trackside Officer Mike Krack and Honda Trackside General Manager Shintaro Orihara were realistic…
