Helmut Marko pleased with the renewed collaboration between Red Bull Racing and Honda
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Helmut Marko is ecstatic with Red Bull Racing and Honda’s revived partnership. The Japanese engine provider had planned to transfer ownership of the powerplant to Red Bull Powertrains in 2023, but that ruling has now been overturned. As a result, Honda will be in charge of the engine until 2025, the year before Porsche may enter the competition.
The Austrian is relieved that the Japanese have changed their minds. Red Bull would have been required to operate the engines themselves starting in 2023 under the initial proposal. According to Marko, obtaining replacement parts would be an issue especially because their providers are mostly in Japan.
Helmut Marko explains the importance of this partnership
Red Bull’s advisor recognizes that this wouldn’t have been feasible and claims that it could have created a serious technological, operational, and linguistic challenge for the team. Honda will now proceed to organize all of it, and the Austria-based racing team will also receive complete shipment of the engines.
Marko tries to explain why this is critical for Red Bull’s position as a newbie in 2026. The Milton-Keynes team would almost undoubtedly collaborate with Porsche. Red Bull has made overtures in comparison to Mercedes, Ferrari, and Alpine because it is new and has been collaborating with Honda behind the scenes until then. For instance, the engine is delivered in a box, and if anything goes horribly wrong with it, only Honda employees are authorized to perform repairs on it.
Red Bull Powertrains was partially designed to oversee the engines until 2026. Now that Honda has announced that it will remain working on the engine, the conundrum is what the engine staff members will do until then. According to Marko, they are actually discussing 300 employees who are all operating on the upcoming engine regulatory requirements. If a brand name joins in 2026, he promises that the forces will be merged.
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