


"In what will be the company’s final season in the sport, Honda F1 has managed to introduce the new ES – fitted with a lighter, low-resistance, highly efficient and ultra-high power battery cell – just in time for the start of the second half of the season. Yasuaki Asaki, Honda F1's head of PU development, explained: "This new ES has been developed in a project that has taken several years, with an aim to combine improvements in energy efficiency with significant reductions in weight. Power struggle: How Honda caught up with Mercedes – and how the Silver Arrows fought back They said the energy store, fitted to the Red Bull and AlphaTauri cars in Belgium, represents the "final major development" to their 2021 power unit, before they bow out of Grand Prix racing at the end of the year. Honda's final season in Formula 1 has seen them bring forward their 2022 engine by a year in a bid to help Red Bull win a first championship title since 2013.
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Honda slipped a major F1 upgrade under the radar as they implemented a new energy store – what they've called a "significant" update to their power unit – for the Belgian Grand Prix, as they continue their all-out push to beat Mercedes to the championship in their final year in the sport.
