Despite departure still a new Honda engine: 'keep fighting'
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Honda will leave Formula 1 at the end of the 2021 season. The Japanese engine supplier returned to the sport in 2015 to claim the world title, but will eventually have to make do with just a few wins.
Honda thank Red Bull
"With Red Bull Racing, our top team well-equipped for winning, we set a clear goal of winning the championship titles and established a strong partnership. As a result, we have been able to demonstrate our high competitiveness. Thanks to our solid partnerships with both teams and high level of competitiveness we have earned, we have claimed three wins during the last season and two wins so far this season," Honda president Takahiro Hachigo said in the statement.
"On behalf of Honda, I would like to express our gratitude again to both Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri for enabling us to fulfill our ambitions of winning F1 races."
Honda develops new engine
In F1, Honda achieved a certain level of success by attaining our goal to claim victories. And now, we will funnel our strengths into achieving innovations in the new field of creating carbon-free power units and energy and realizing carbon neutrality," Hachigo ushers in Honda's new path.
"We still have seven more races this season, and we are introducing a new power unit with improved performance for the next season. In order to fulfill expectations our fans place on Honda, we will work together with Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri to continue competing with our utmost effort and strive for more victories all the way to the end," the Honda executive said.