Honda Engines For Toro Rosso, Renault Engines For McLaren

TORO ROSSO GRABS HONDA ENGINES FOR 2018 AS McLAREN SIGNS ON FOR RENAULT ENGINES

    Toro Rosso will use Honda power from 2018 after agreeing a multi-year deal with the Japanese manufacturer.

    The Red Bull junior ends its contract with Renault early and its understood the loan of Carlos Sainz to the works team was part of the negotiations.

    “Everyone in our team is very much looking forward to working with Honda,” said team principal Franz Tost.

    “Ever since its founder Soichiro Honda entered his motorcycles in events, racing has always been a central part of the company’s ethos.

    It’s a very exciting challenge and I hope that both parties will gain a great deal from it as we develop together,”

    “It will be a question of adaption of our plans rather than a wholesale change and we are in the process of re-planning our design and production activities in conjunction with Honda to ensure that we both hit all our important deadlines,” said technical director James Key.

    "There are some challenges to face given the time of year but Toro Rosso has faced many different tasks with timing in the past and has the flexibility to deal with it.

    We will be working hard not to only re-design the power unit installation but also to ensure that this has minimal or no effect on our ongoing development work for 2018 – that is our current target"

    It’s not the first time Toro Rosso has used different engines to sister team Red Bull - the team has only recently switched from Ferrari power – but it has only ever used old engines when using a different manufacturer to Red Bull. This time Toro Rosso will use the latest iteration of Honda engines.

    The news comes as McLaren confirms it has ended its relationship with Honda after three years of disappointing results.

    McLaren has signed a three-year deal with Toro Rosso’s current manufacturer Renault in the hope it can be competitive again in 2018.

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McLaren Splits With Honda

McLAREN SPLITS WITH HONDA

    McLaren has ended its relationship with Honda and is set to use Renault power from 2018.

    Honda rejoined Formula 1 with McLaren in 2015 and has been plagued with performance and reliability problems throughout the three years. In that time, McLaren-Honda has taken just 114 points.

    With Honda showing little sign of improvement in the first half of 2017, McLaren made it clear it was looking at alternative options for next season. It’s understood the team has signed a three-year deal with Renault and will receive the same specification engines as the Renault works team and customer team Red Bull in 2018.

    Honda will remain in Formula 1, supplying engines to Toro Rosso, who is using Renault engines this season. It’s believed Carlos Sainz Jnr has moved to Renault as part of the agreement to allow Toro Rosso to end its contract early.

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Daniil Kvyat completes Toro Rosso's 2014 Line Up.

Even though the 2013 season is still going on, we're always playing 'Silly Season' a fun guessing game of which driver will go where. One of the things that has been confirmed is that Daniil Kvyat is going to be driving alongside Jean-Eric Vergne on the Toro Rosso team in 2014.

Daniil is from Ufa, Russia and was born April 26th 1994, making him 19. He is the Championship Winner of this years GP3 series. He currently resides in Rome, Italy and lives with his family.

Although he is young, he is already showing great promise by being a Champion of GP3. Many of the current Formula1 drivers have expressed that adding 'Young' or 'Rookie' drivers is going to be dangerous. I think most of that assumption is because the drivers will be using Turbo engines next year. It is an interesting time for younger drivers to be joining in, but I feel that Daniil will do very well on the team.
Daniil is not the only young Russian driver being added in the F1 line up. Sergey Sirotkin has a good chance of securing his seat at Sauber if he gets his Super-License.
More information on the 2014 Driver Line up to come!

Article Written By: Amy Hawk.