Yesterday, the future strategic partnership between Red Bull Racing and Ford Corporation on engine construction was announced, but Honda will remain the partner of the team through 2025. As Christian Horner assured, a kind of “Great Wall of China” was built throughout the period to prevent the leakage of intellectual property.
The transition to a new generation of powerplants is scheduled for 2026, before which Japanese motorists will continue to work with Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri and Honda logos will be on both teams’ cars.
“We have an agreement and our excellent relationship with Honda will last until the end of 2025,” RacingNews365 quoted the head of Red Bull Racing as saying. – There is no transfer of intellectual property, all Honda engines are made in Japan and everything related to Red Bull Powertrains (RBPT) is only fully focused on 2026.
It is therefore understandable that a “Chinese wall” has been built between the two programs, although we will of course work with Honda in the coming years to achieve the best possible result. Our Japanese partners intend to fulfill their obligations in full, and this is an absolutely unequivocal situation. And at the end of 2025, our relationship will come to an end.
Our engines are homologated, so their development is actually at a standstill. These engines are supplied by Honda, this company owns all the intellectual property, so we don’t look into these engines.”
Source: F1 News
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