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Aston Martin’s nightmare: Honda owns up to power unit meltdown
© XPB Michael Delaney
21/02/2026 at 11:0721/02/2026 at 11:08 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. Aston Martin engine supplier Honda has publicly conceded what the timing screens in Bahrain had already exposed – its 2026 F1 power unit is lacking both performance and reliability. Across six bruising days of pre-season running, Aston Martin logged just 334 laps – the fewest of any team. Gremlins crept in early: an unspecified issue, a puzzling “data anomaly,” and then deeper mechanical setbacks. A power unit failure sidelined the AMR26 for four hours midweek. A suspected technical fault pitched Lance Stroll into the gravel. A battery-related problem cut short...
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