Currently, the Aston Martin F1 team use Mercedes power units as well as gearbox and rear suspension within their cars.
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The Aston Martin F1 team are mulling over the idea of making their own Formula 1 power unit from the 2026 season.
Currently, Aston Martin use Mercedes power units as well as gearbox and rear suspension within their cars.
But in the future, Technical Director Andrew Green believes the team will look into making their own engines.
“I think going forward with our ambitions, we’re definitely investigating our power unit supply in the long-term,” Green had said at the launch of the AMR22.
“2026 is mooted as a new power unit regulation and I think, as a team, we’d love to be involved.
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“We have Aramco now involved as a sponsor and I think conversations going forward in the next few years… we’ll see.
For sure we’ll be looking at it in great detail and understanding whether there is a benefit to it in that direction.”
Creating a power unit has been seen as something of a challenge in the turbo-hybrid era. It’s why there’s little in the way of variety in terms of engine suppliers currently in the sport.
Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault are the only major engine suppliers around. Red Bull and AlphaTauri use Honda made power units but which will now be branded as Red Bull power units.
This change came around after Honda exited the sport at the end of 2021. This then prompted Red Bull to buy out Honda’s F1 engine division and rebrand it Red Bull Powertrains.
But with 2026 set to see the intoduction of a newer power unit, it would be the best time to try and make one from scratch. This is also because there’s currently a freeze on engine development until 2026.
Nevertheless, the focus this season would be to get back into the upper half of the midfield teams.
The team formerly known as Force India and later Racing Point have huge ambitions. What’s more, with the backing of billionaire Lawrence Stroll, they are taking steps towards becoming title contenders.
They are in the midst of constructing a brand new factory that will have a new simulator well as a windtunnel.
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Despite that, 2021 was a season to forget for Aston Martin. The team, under its Racing Point guise, finished the 2020 season in fourth place.
However, they slumped to a lowly seventh in 2022, behind only backmarkers Williams, Alfa Romeo and Haas.
How they fare in 2022 will be better understood once the second round of pre-season testing at Bahrain gets underway in a week’s time.
