Confirmed: Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri to run Honda Power-units till 2025

It was confirmed on Monday (15/2/21), both Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri will run Honda Power-Units till 2025.

Honda has been affiliated with Red Bull since 2018, supplying Toro Rosso (now AlphaTauri), then Red Bull Racing in 2019.

Honda announced last October that it will be leaving Formula 1 at the end of this season. But, Honda was consider to handing over the intellectual property for Red Bull to use the Power-Units.

Last week Formula 1’s key stakeholders approved plans for an engine freeze to come into force from 2022, resulting Red Bull using Honda Power-Units without the financial burden on Red Bull resources.

The Power-Units will be called Red Bull Powertrains Limited (Red Bull for short; although, renaming them after a sponsor may happen similar in-between 2016-2018 as TAG Heuer Power-Units), will operate out of Red Bull Racing base at Milton Keynes.

In my opinion, this is no major surprise that the news has happen; engine freeze coming into force from 2022, the financial burden on both Red Bull teams will be minimal.

Red Bull powered by Red Bull for the next four years at least.