Helmut Marko will board a plane to Japan next week and will talk to some of Honda top executives there. Marko will talk to them about the future of the Honda engine, as well as some other important topics.
From the moment it was announced that Honda will leave Formula 1, Red Bull has done everything in its power to find a solution. The Austrian racing team will need an engine supplier from 2022, but does not seem to have any plans to become a Renault or Ferrari customer team again. Instead, they plan to buy Honda’s intellectual property and then build and maintain the bike themselves. In order to make this plan a success, they asked the FIA whether a full engine stop could be set, although not all competitors are happy with this.
Despite the initial opposition from Ferrari, it now seems to be heading in the right direction for Red Bull. “Nothing is official yet, but talks are ongoing and it looks like a compromise can be reached,” Marko told the Austrian. Kronen newspaper. “This is because things will change in the field of the engine at Ferrari and Renault. The engine shutdown would therefore not start at the end of 2021, but at the beginning of 2022,” explains the Austrian.
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Marko remains vague and still does not want to give a concrete answer. “There is movement going on. The glass is currently half full or half empty. But what I assume is that we are heading for the right direction.” However, according to Marko, talks in Japan will not only be about the engines, but also about Yuki Tsunoda, a Japanese Formula 3 driver and Red Bull’s involvement in Super Formula and GT. “But of course Formula 1 has absolute priority,” Marko emphasizes.
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