With Honda’s shock announcement final fall that it’ll finish its position as a Components One energy unit provider after the 2021 season to concentrate on electrical automobiles, Pink Bull Racing and sister crew AlphaTauri, the one groups utilizing Honda’s energy unit, had been left in a tricky spot.

Not one of the different energy unit suppliers, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz AMG and Renault, are eager to produce Pink Bull particularly, with Mercedes instantly ruling out the likelihood as a result of capability constraints.

Luckily an answer has been discovered. F1 organizers along with the groups agreed at a February 11 assembly to a freeze on energy unit adjustments beginning in 2022 and lasting till a brand new energy unit idea is launched in 2025. Beforehand the organizers had proposed some significant changes to the present energy unit for 2022, together with standardizing some elements.

After the 2021 season, Pink Bull will take over Honda’s energy unit and begin manufacturing them for each its personal crew and AlphaTauri. Pink Bull will set up the brand new division Pink Bull Powertrains to deal with manufacturing of the ability models.

“We now have been discussing this matter with Honda for a while and following the FIA’s choice to freeze energy unit improvement from 2022, we might eventually attain an settlement relating to the continued use of Honda’s hybrid energy models,” Helmut Marko, Pink Bull’s motorsport advisor, mentioned in a press release.

On the Feb. 11 assembly, F1 organizers additionally established a working group whose activity it’s to create a brand new format for qualifying to assist make it extra participating for audiences. One risk is utilizing a dash race to find out the beginning grid.