@@F1ll1nTh3BlanksHe said that he will treat 2026 as his potential last year and if everything will not go well next year for Aston Martin, Alonso might retire for good from f1
I mean, let's not pretend that Aston Martin's dreams were tangible in the first place. After all... Lance Stroll will crush Aston Martin's dreams every as long as he's driving for them and we know he's not going away any time soon.
may i bring to your attention that honda is BAD at predicting where they are, they sold a race winning car, overestimated their return and left a dominating partnership. law of averages says that this will be Honda's Mercedes era
These rumors mean absolutely nothing to me until the 2026 preseason testing. Rumors, rumors, rumors, MY GOD, can we just embrace that everything is a no until that season is off the ground and running???
Genuinely cannot bring myself to support a team as disjointed as Aston. The nepo driver happily crashing while promising juniors are sidetracked, what a fantastic showing for the sport.
Mercedes will mog every single PU manufacturer. Screenshot this and message me in 2026. There's a reason why Mercedes pulled out from the Formula E championship after great success..... Alonso even said a few days ago that Williams (a mercedes customer team) will ascend high up the order in 2026 so he already knows about Honda's shortcomings...
firstly, Adrian newey is not an " equal partner " with Lawrence Stroll. Adrian Newey is not an equal partner with Lawrence Stroll at Aston Martin, but he is a shareholder in the team. Newey is the managing technical partner at Aston Martin, a role that combines technical leadership with a shareholding in the team. " source F1 " secondly, yes, Honda did have issues up until 2021. " In the France/Austria series of races it appeared as if the Honda had the edge. At Silverstone the Mercedes appeared to be marginally ahead. It is that close, and it will be fascinating to see how this battle plays out in the second half of this gripping season. " source F1. august 2021. in 2022, even though the engine was a rebrand of Red Bull power unit, Honda still supplied the engine. it will certainly be interesting to see how your videos hold up in the next year to year and a half. just a week ago you proclaimed that Aston Martin would go bankrupt and now you are predicting them to be last on the grid for 2026. I suppose content creators for F1 has to make such broad ranging crystal ball proclamations for views. few will probably remember this video as well as others you have made in the upcoming years. I will be winning the lottery in the next multi million draw because my local lottery booth has had a winning ticket from their kiosk last week. wish me luck
I don't have faith in RBPT-Ford either - Red Bull can no longer rely on pre-existing technology, they have to build it on their own from the ground up. And they can hire as many engineers as they want, but they don't have the know-how the big boys have + Ford woll only offer some minor assistance (RBPT will do the heavy lifting) and slap the blue oval badge on the engine. And with Audi's engine reported to be poo as well, perhaps the battle for the best power unit will be between Mercedes and Ferrari and maybe Hamilton was up to something when he joined Ferrari. You don't leave a team like Mercedes that was driving force behind all of his wins and titles unless Fred Vasseur made a killer pitch to him that the Ferrari PU will be head and shoulders above anyone else and could be the ingredient for Lewis' 8th title.
Something that could give Ferrari an edge in the engine department is that the 2026 regulations require conjoined turbochargers rather than the split turbochargers that Mercedes and Honda have been using. Ferrari decided to do they best they could with conjoined turbos instead of using split turbos like the others. Their experience with them could give them an edge.
everyone is so fuccesd on 2026 that I think if I where a midfield team, I would focus on 2025. theres a championship to win, 24 races that need a winner and 70 odd podiums to fight for. surely if youre a customer team, you won't need to focus on building and designing the new engines, that will be the job of the supplier right?. If I was midfield , especially as it's so close surely theres value in making a 25 car compete and possible win a race or two. rather than focus on 26 and then end up finishing 15th anyway.
As a hopeful Aston fan, I'm not too worried. All teams will be facing similar issues and Honda excels in making strong and robust engines in any application.
"However, Koji Watanabe admitted that the challenge of building a new PU has been great - as it will be for every incoming manufacturer attempting to build these new units." "However, Watanabe also acknowledged that other teams will be experiencing similar challenges. In fact, Christian Horner referred its own power unit partnership with Ford as Red Bull’s “biggest challenge.”"
Aston will be stronger this year. I reckon they built a car that Newey has designed behind the scenes. He did not do "nothing" since April 2024. (Hopeful speculation😂)
Getting rid of Lance stroll, would mean there is no reason for Lawrence Joel to stick with Aston martin, and they could find themselves out of business very quickly, as they have an enormous amount of debt with all these new facilities.
You broke out the comedy today LAW, your entire diatribe had some sincerely hilarious moments... Lance Stroll has a destiny WAITING for him, WEC VALKIRIE DRIVER #3 ... Aston Martin F1 is WEC Lamborghini, pick your battles, your not a hypercar team, you're a GT3 customer producer. Aston Martin welcome to WEC, your F1 days are NUMBERED.
2026 is an engine-forward reg change. Wind tunnel time won’t be as important as having a strong icu and battery. Aero regs don’t leave much to the imagination. That said, I’m sure engineers will come up with slightly different interpretations team to team so maybe slightly different looking cars but it’s not as important as the engine
Hear me put on this though. Honda and Nissan are set for a merch, no? What if Nissan could help out with the electrical side of the 2026 PU? They are in Formula E after all. . .I'm not sure how much that could help but I mean it'd be pretty cool to see!
Why did you buy the hype into the first place? They announced their re-entry in May 2023, leaving 2.5 years before 2026. Cadillac has allowed 3.5 to 4 years before 2028. All other suppliers had started well before 2023, with the benefit of capital non-price capped funding for facilities that Honda missed out upon. Honda is late to rebuild a technical team and limited in redeveloping/rebuilding their technical R & D facility, Their manufacturing setup is fine as it already running today for Red Bull but there was nothing else left by 2023, just a skeleton crew. Why did you not mention this when the Aston Martin announcement was made? Why is anyone surprised?
Who are these people working at Honda? I thought that Honda would have fired all their employees, but Red Bull bought the operation, including the employees, as RBPT. Then my understanding was that Honda signed with Aston Martin, but with very little expertise, and they had to start from scratch.
Yeh, well... This rule change could have been an opportunity to finally ditch the concept of an engine formula for a standardised fuel formula and all the benefits that would bring. Oh, and the less reliance F1 puts in to aero the better the racing and the less money all the teams would p_ss away for no good reason.
(extreme conspiracy theory) Honda Sandbags so Alonso quits the team and Honda can put in their boy tsunoda behind the wheel and turn on party mode on their engines. I don't know if Honda still has their ego bruised due to a gp2 engine incident 😅
I would reckon that an engine supplier would want to feel confident in their interpretation of the ruleset. Seems like Honda's initial gusto a few months back has evaporated.
I dont fully understand why Adrian Newey is only allowed to start work 2 months later. That just seems wrong. Redbull not letting him look at everything anymore i can understand.
Ferrari has an advantage due to their turbo layout that they ve stuck with. But i dont think that honda they will be that bad plus they wont have an engine freeze to worry about. Throwback to 2014 when mercedes engine was unreliable even in testing and they convinced us that they wont be competitive.
While I like Aston Martin well enough, Fernando is the real draw. Can he choke down the disappointment long enough for Aston Martin/Honda put together a competitive car?
If you follow road cars and mixed ev/fuel you will know this system has a lot of problems I feel that cars will go back to green fuels in 2030 just wait for the first battery fire in 2026
It was inevitable. Honda just recently decided they actually wanted to stay in F1. They keep doing this thing where they leave F1 and then come back and bc of that they were never going to catch Mercedes, Ferrari or even Audi on day 1 just bc they actually never thought they were going to actually be in F1 in 2026. Add to that the fact that Newey said these new regs are really engine dependent and it's not hard to assume that AM will probably not have the greatest of times at the beginning of the new regs. Even then, AM has a lot of other things that need to work besides the PU. Idk guys, it kinda feels like AM might be in their way to be another Toyota in F1.
I think that they were initially confident with the rules and their focus on the electrical side of things...that's what it was like back in May...but now they've probably been overwhelmed.
As much i dislike Lance Stroll and criticize his racing abilities, he has proven to be somewhat competitive in a more than decent car. Stroll Jr. needs a good car to shine and is probably able to translate that towards the engineering staff. Alonso as a very instinctive driver doesn't even noticing when he is driving around problems. Therefore he is not the guy to talk to regarding development but Lance is. When asked by the press to point out problems he can't give a genuine answer and he is socially not skilled enough to dance with those questions and answers. Honda is probably just tuning expectations down. Honda doesn't know, just like the competition, what enough performance and reliability is. Honda started before Audi confirmed their entry but with a skeleton crew at Sakura. Most staff was switched to RBPT in Milton Keynes. Stroll Sr. being that long in the game and knowing the history I can't imagine he would demand a size zero from Honda. Newey as a partner knows how to extract performance out of Honda. The 2021 variation of the 2018 STR-Honda engine was smaller than the demanded size zero at McLaren was. Some people are rumoring a swap between Alonso and Verstappen. I'm not so sure Red Bull is comfortable with that. AMR would get a known and highly regarded quantity in direction giving at car development by that swap.
Me as an Alonso fan can only stay humble and modest about his circumstances of where he is or may go in future bcuz it hasn't worked out great before 🥲
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Alonso is already getting PTSD.
He'll retire end of this season if things are actually as bad as rumours say.
@@F1ll1nTh3BlanksHe said that he will treat 2026 as his potential last year and if everything will not go well next year for Aston Martin, Alonso might retire for good from f1
Must be a nightmare, but the pay is good
@@night756 Yeah, but I don't think he'll stick around for that if the rumours are true.
That's why he will be replaced by Max 😂
I mean, let's not pretend that Aston Martin's dreams were tangible in the first place.
After all... Lance Stroll will crush Aston Martin's dreams every as long as he's driving for them and we know he's not going away any time soon.
there was no dream other than getting Lance a drive, they said that, everyone else is on copium sadly
Heres to praying they move him to WEC when they start in 2026
At least Newey is used to building a car around a crap engine.
imo, Honda is the only manufacturer, who is unafraid to acknowledge this problem.
Japanese honor. Better to acknowledge things early than make excuses later if things go really wrong.
may i bring to your attention that honda is BAD at predicting where they are, they sold a race winning car, overestimated their return and left a dominating partnership.
law of averages says that this will be Honda's Mercedes era
That was 16 years ago
"their star driver -Alonso, not Lance" thanks for clarifying that.
Nice work captain obvious
The Japanese are very honest people. Horner and ford, Toto and Mercedes will lie through their teeth to please their shareholders.
That's what I thought. I doubt Watanabe-san would sandbag.
These rumors mean absolutely nothing to me until the 2026 preseason testing. Rumors, rumors, rumors, MY GOD, can we just embrace that everything is a no until that season is off the ground and running???
No because that would mean no content and this guy LOVES to squeeze the last ounce of content out of everything 😂
@ And that’s why YOU are the target audience for believing what you hear and I’m not.
Even preseason doesn't often mean much. Where Aston Martin was really strong. And then just kinda fumble the rest in the season.
Is that why Ferrari decided to instead of Newey hire engine specialists for 2026?
Did Ferrari accidentally made a masterstroke???
More like a stroke
@@DanishWistara I mean if Newey himself says that engines will be more important in 26 than aero, I tend to believe him
Very accidentally, and then they'll f it up again
Everything ferrari does is accidental ... Good and bad
Lewis/Max : my tyres are gone man !.... ( Sets fastest lap )
Honda : Our motor is not good 😢 , we will leave F1 .... ( Wins wdc )
Yea... Ok
Took Honda a very long time to get up to speed with Merc in the hybrid era
*ALONSO CRIES IN GP2 ENGINE*
Genuinely cannot bring myself to support a team as disjointed as Aston. The nepo driver happily crashing while promising juniors are sidetracked, what a fantastic showing for the sport.
I think RBPT will be even Worse than Honda, Ford haven't had a competitive F1 engines in over 20 years.
Doubt that, RBPT is doing most of the legwork and one of the reason Honda is having issue is that most of the talent they had is now working for RBPT.
Mercedes will mog every single PU manufacturer. Screenshot this and message me in 2026. There's a reason why Mercedes pulled out from the Formula E championship after great success..... Alonso even said a few days ago that Williams (a mercedes customer team) will ascend high up the order in 2026 so he already knows about Honda's shortcomings...
The Toto impression is spot on. EDIT: I just realized you pick the light colour differently depending on the content... Well done. Nice touch.
10:37 Thanks for that much needed clarification.
Lawrence Stroll: Honda will provide our engine
Alonso: Vietnam flashbacks*
firstly, Adrian newey is not an " equal partner " with Lawrence Stroll. Adrian Newey is not an equal partner with Lawrence Stroll at Aston Martin, but he is a shareholder in the team. Newey is the managing technical partner at Aston Martin, a role that combines technical leadership with a shareholding in the team.
" source F1 "
secondly, yes, Honda did have issues up until 2021. " In the France/Austria series of races it appeared as if the Honda had the edge. At Silverstone the Mercedes appeared to be marginally ahead. It is that close, and it will be fascinating to see how this battle plays out in the second half of this gripping season.
" source F1. august 2021. in 2022, even though the engine was a rebrand of Red Bull power unit, Honda still supplied the engine.
it will certainly be interesting to see how your videos hold up in the next year to year and a half. just a week ago you proclaimed that Aston Martin would go bankrupt and now you are predicting them to be last on the grid for 2026. I suppose content creators for F1 has to make such broad ranging crystal ball proclamations for views. few will probably remember this video as well as others you have made in the upcoming years. I will be winning the lottery in the next multi million draw because my local lottery booth has had a winning ticket from their kiosk last week. wish me luck
I don't have faith in RBPT-Ford either - Red Bull can no longer rely on pre-existing technology, they have to build it on their own from the ground up. And they can hire as many engineers as they want, but they don't have the know-how the big boys have + Ford woll only offer some minor assistance (RBPT will do the heavy lifting) and slap the blue oval badge on the engine. And with Audi's engine reported to be poo as well, perhaps the battle for the best power unit will be between Mercedes and Ferrari and maybe Hamilton was up to something when he joined Ferrari. You don't leave a team like Mercedes that was driving force behind all of his wins and titles unless Fred Vasseur made a killer pitch to him that the Ferrari PU will be head and shoulders above anyone else and could be the ingredient for Lewis' 8th title.
I'm pretty sure Red Bull poached a lot of the people who worked on their championship winning Honda engines.
Good thing RBPT hired many engineers with the know-how the big boys have (had)
Lewis will not get another title
Honda x Alonso seems to be cursed lmao
What mini stroller lacks = Skill, talent, good attitude, passion and know-how. What mini stroller has in buckets = Indifference and money.
Something that could give Ferrari an edge in the engine department is that the 2026 regulations require conjoined turbochargers rather than the split turbochargers that Mercedes and Honda have been using. Ferrari decided to do they best they could with conjoined turbos instead of using split turbos like the others. Their experience with them could give them an edge.
Aston Martin strikes a deal with Red Bull for their 2027 Engine.
everyone is so fuccesd on 2026 that I think if I where a midfield team, I would focus on 2025. theres a championship to win, 24 races that need a winner and 70 odd podiums to fight for. surely if youre a customer team, you won't need to focus on building and designing the new engines, that will be the job of the supplier right?. If I was midfield , especially as it's so close surely theres value in making a 25 car compete and possible win a race or two. rather than focus on 26 and then end up finishing 15th anyway.
Mercedes said in like 2012/13 they were behind for the new engine regs.. just keep that in mind. People downplay all the time
As a hopeful Aston fan, I'm not too worried. All teams will be facing similar issues and Honda excels in making strong and robust engines in any application.
"However, Koji Watanabe admitted that the challenge of building a new PU has been great - as it will be for every incoming manufacturer attempting to build these new units." "However, Watanabe also acknowledged that other teams will be experiencing similar challenges.
In fact, Christian Horner referred its own power unit partnership with Ford as Red Bull’s “biggest challenge.”"
Please continue editing moments like 5:58 I am absolutely loving it XD
I smell a mohawk influence
Aston will be stronger this year. I reckon they built a car that Newey has designed behind the scenes. He did not do "nothing" since April 2024. (Hopeful speculation😂)
Getting rid of Lance stroll, would mean there is no reason for Lawrence Joel to stick with Aston martin, and they could find themselves out of business very quickly, as they have an enormous amount of debt with all these new facilities.
Underrated Toto Wolf impersonation 😂
At least we're gonna have some damn good memes
As long they keep Stroll i have no reason to take them seriously, ever.
For Papa stroll showing support, 2023 Las Vegas and that was the last time I heard him being supportive
Max: The engine feels lovely.
Alonso:The engine feels good.
Alonso: Much slower than before. Amazing!
Lawrence has never had to care about anything anyone has ever said about Lance...but Newey should be hard to ignore.
Pretty sure Ron Dennis had already left by the time Mclaren were using Honda engines
You broke out the comedy today LAW, your entire diatribe had some sincerely hilarious moments... Lance Stroll has a destiny WAITING for him, WEC VALKIRIE DRIVER #3 ... Aston Martin F1 is WEC Lamborghini, pick your battles, your not a hypercar team, you're a GT3 customer producer. Aston Martin welcome to WEC, your F1 days are NUMBERED.
GP2 honda engines are haunting alonso wherever he goes 💀💀💀
I have 0 trust about Aston Martin performing better than Toyota.
Will they save all their wind tunnel time for 2026 testing?
2026 is an engine-forward reg change. Wind tunnel time won’t be as important as having a strong icu and battery. Aero regs don’t leave much to the imagination. That said, I’m sure engineers will come up with slightly different interpretations team to team so maybe slightly different looking cars but it’s not as important as the engine
Hear me put on this though. Honda and Nissan are set for a merch, no? What if Nissan could help out with the electrical side of the 2026 PU? They are in Formula E after all. . .I'm not sure how much that could help but I mean it'd be pretty cool to see!
Why did you buy the hype into the first place? They announced their re-entry in May 2023, leaving 2.5 years before 2026. Cadillac has allowed 3.5 to 4 years before 2028. All other suppliers had started well before 2023, with the benefit of capital non-price capped funding for facilities that Honda missed out upon. Honda is late to rebuild a technical team and limited in redeveloping/rebuilding their technical R & D facility, Their manufacturing setup is fine as it already running today for Red Bull but there was nothing else left by 2023, just a skeleton crew. Why did you not mention this when the Aston Martin announcement was made? Why is anyone surprised?
Who are these people working at Honda?
I thought that Honda would have fired all their employees, but Red Bull bought the operation, including the employees, as RBPT.
Then my understanding was that Honda signed with Aston Martin, but with very little expertise, and they had to start from scratch.
Just wanted to apologise for dropping my subscription things have got a bit tough. Maybe whwn things get better i will rejoin
I can't bear this, I need to got eat some tapas. (cries in Spanish)
Yeh, well...
This rule change could have been an opportunity to finally ditch the concept of an engine formula for a standardised fuel formula and all the benefits that would bring.
Oh, and the less reliance F1 puts in to aero the better the racing and the less money all the teams would p_ss away for no good reason.
Will Sainz get more points than Stroll in 2025 and/or 2026? That would be great.
(extreme conspiracy theory) Honda Sandbags so Alonso quits the team and Honda can put in their boy tsunoda behind the wheel and turn on party mode on their engines. I don't know if Honda still has their ego bruised due to a gp2 engine incident 😅
5:58 is that a RPM reference?
6:03 ... lol :D
What frame of reference do they have?!
We know that these engines are going to be significantly slower than the current ones.
I would reckon that an engine supplier would want to feel confident in their interpretation of the ruleset. Seems like Honda's initial gusto a few months back has evaporated.
I dont fully understand why Adrian Newey is only allowed to start work 2 months later. That just seems wrong. Redbull not letting him look at everything anymore i can understand.
It's conventional practice for gardening leave.
How do you spell mahdi?
Stroll could be in big trouble with the GP2 engine.
Sandbagging for sure! Modest Japanese being humble…
Ferrari has an advantage due to their turbo layout that they ve stuck with. But i dont think that honda they will be that bad plus they wont have an engine freeze to worry about. Throwback to 2014 when mercedes engine was unreliable even in testing and they convinced us that they wont be competitive.
While I like Aston Martin well enough, Fernando is the real draw. Can he choke down the disappointment long enough for Aston Martin/Honda put together a competitive car?
Is this another case of Alonso being cursed?
The new rules are garbage, they had to change the car because the engine idea sucks so hard.
Cant wait
If you follow road cars and mixed ev/fuel you will know this system has a lot of problems I feel that cars will go back to green fuels in 2030 just wait for the first battery fire in 2026
praying they suceed would be sad if aston martin car company goes under
Can someone check on Fernando's wellbeing
It was inevitable. Honda just recently decided they actually wanted to stay in F1. They keep doing this thing where they leave F1 and then come back and bc of that they were never going to catch Mercedes, Ferrari or even Audi on day 1 just bc they actually never thought they were going to actually be in F1 in 2026. Add to that the fact that Newey said these new regs are really engine dependent and it's not hard to assume that AM will probably not have the greatest of times at the beginning of the new regs.
Even then, AM has a lot of other things that need to work besides the PU. Idk guys, it kinda feels like AM might be in their way to be another Toyota in F1.
I think that they were initially confident with the rules and their focus on the electrical side of things...that's what it was like back in May...but now they've probably been overwhelmed.
Australian Lawrence Stroll 😂
Forget aston stroll if Honda fk up 2026 even if the car has good aero im gonna crash out
Is Alonso cursed. If so, who cursed him?
Let’s go
Poor Alonso.
What about the Stroll FAN out there
Max Verstappen is about to move to Mercedes instead of Aston Martin...
Lance gonna be 22nd!!
As much i dislike Lance Stroll and criticize his racing abilities, he has proven to be somewhat competitive in a more than decent car. Stroll Jr. needs a good car to shine and is probably able to translate that towards the engineering staff. Alonso as a very instinctive driver doesn't even noticing when he is driving around problems. Therefore he is not the guy to talk to regarding development but Lance is. When asked by the press to point out problems he can't give a genuine answer and he is socially not skilled enough to dance with those questions and answers.
Honda is probably just tuning expectations down. Honda doesn't know, just like the competition, what enough performance and reliability is. Honda started before Audi confirmed their entry but with a skeleton crew at Sakura. Most staff was switched to RBPT in Milton Keynes.
Stroll Sr. being that long in the game and knowing the history I can't imagine he would demand a size zero from Honda. Newey as a partner knows how to extract performance out of Honda. The 2021 variation of the 2018 STR-Honda engine was smaller than the demanded size zero at McLaren was.
Some people are rumoring a swap between Alonso and Verstappen. I'm not so sure Red Bull is comfortable with that. AMR would get a known and highly regarded quantity in direction giving at car development by that swap.
He's not the worst driver F1 has ever seen, but his character and skill level aren't warranting such a long tenure in the sport organically
@LawVS
Correct, being a pay driver buys you time.
Just because what?
I personally don't believe a word thejudge13 says
That's why I qualified my reporting with the foam AND gripping it tightly.
@LawVS oh yeah, I've seen the foam of doubt many of times 😜.
Just personally, when I see the judge13, I know to believe the opposite
Anyone who believes anything Honda says is a fool !!!!!
They are sandbagging and Stroll will be sacked anyway
please keep reusing that backmarkers visual gag, definitely a keeper for this season
Honda and aremco will be breathing down papa strolls neck to get rid of lance
Ferrari engine?
Oh no! Anyway...
GP2 Engine, GP2! Bhaow
Poor Fernando is gonna scream GP2 engine again 🤦
Meh.
Oh dear
Oh no noooo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh no
oh well
What a shame
Oh noooooooo
And to be honest it's boorriinng
Me as an Alonso fan can only stay humble and modest about his circumstances of where he is or may go in future bcuz it hasn't worked out great before 🥲