Aston Martin looking into the possibility of supplying power units in 2026

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Andrew Green, British Formula One engineer who is currently working as the Chief technical officer at the Aston Martin formula One team talks about the possibility of the company investigating in supplying power units in the year 2026. Aston Martin is currently buying their power units from Mercedes, but Andrew’s comment brings in speculations for a change coming on the front.

Prior to the 2022 season, the team agreed to a partnership with Saudi Arabian state-owned oil firm Saudi Aramco, so Green speculated that this could be Aston Martin’s entry into the power unit scene. The Formula One World will soon debut a new engine with greater emphasis on electrical energy and the power unit producing 350Kw of energy from the existing 1.6 litre V6 engine in 2026.

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Andrew Green talks about the investigation pertaining to long-term power unit supply

“2026 is mooted as a new power unit regulation and I think as a team we’d love to be involved. We have Aramco now involved as a sponsor and I think conversations going forward in the next years, we’ll see. I’m sure we’ll be looking at it in great detail and understanding whether there’s a benefit to us moving in that direction,” said Andrew in an interview.

One of the key notes announce by Andrew during the launch of the new Aston Martin’s AMR22 car was that he anticipated a step forward in their ambitions and said, “I think going forward with our ambitions, I think we’re definitely investigating power unit supply in the long-term.”

Green believes that the power units have changed only “minimally” between 2021 and 2022 and said, “The power unit has minimal changes really from ’21, it’s probably the single area of the car that’s had the least amount of change from ’21 to ’22.”

Mercedes had described the engine changes for 2022 as the most significant since the introduction of V6 turbo-hybrids in 2014, owing to the introduction of a new E10 fuel. These are also the last power units developed in this era before the freeze takes effect.

“We’re still sort of in a homologated region of power unit. The power unit has been developed to take E10 fuel for 2022 so it had to be recalibrated and the fuels re-blended.“

“But that’s not a significant alteration. It’s a common power unit amongst all the [Mercedes customer] teams, they’re still only producing one power unit for everybody. So, I don’t think that was a big issue for them,” added Green.

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