Honda will withdraw from Formula 1 after the 2021 season. This is what the Japanese supplier has just announced. Bad news for that Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri, which will have to look for another power source.
The news comes as a surprise, as Honda didn’t make its return to the sport until 2018. The following season they joined forces with Red Bull Racing, achieving various successes in the form of several victories and podium places. In addition, Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda looks set to make his Formula 1 debut at AlphaTauri, which would allow Honda to have a homegrown driver in one of its teams.
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In a statement, Honda said that the car industry is in the process of a transformation that occurs once every hundred years. The Japanese company wants to be completely carbon neutral by 2050 and will focus on that in the coming years.
