Aston Martin fans are all in agreement after hearing Honda’s 2026 F1 engine for the first time

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The 2026 Formula 1 season will kick off in two months’ time, and fans have been left purring at Honda teasing the sound of their new power unit.

The Tokyo giants have dissolved their partnership with Red Bull and are focusing on supplying Aston Martin with F1 engines for the foreseeable future.

Honda’s return to the grid with the Austrian constructor in 2018 turned into a highly successful one, something that the Silverstone-based racing outfit will be hoping to replicate in the coming years.

Japanese power carried Max Verstappen to four consecutive world titles between 2021 and 2024. Upon the closure of the recently concluded 2025 campaign, Verstappen expressed his gratitude for Honda’s crucial part in his success.

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Aston Martin F1 fans think Honda’s new engine sounds ‘very angry’

Following the Japanese manufacturer’s post on social media that showcased the roar of their new 2026-spec V6 engine, fans had to voice their excitement to see the power unit in action.

The previous iteration of the engine that had been in use between 2014 and 2025 has received its fair share of criticism for the lack of scream that it offered in comparison to its predecessors.

Whilst it isn’t on the same level as the explicit V8s that came before, it is somewhere along the right lines, much to the delight of the Silverstone-based team’s fans.

One X (formerly Twitter) user commented, “That actually sounds better than the previous generation of engines,” whilst another agreed with the sentiment, posting, “Sounds much better now that MGU H is gone.”

Another user shared just how much they are looking forward to the new season after Honda dropped their new teaser, commenting, “That V6 is singing. If this is the Aston Martin–Honda soundtrack for 2026, crank the volume and take my weekends already.”

The sheer anger from the power unit encapsulated a lot of fans’ attention, with one user writing, “That thing sounds very angry.” Another user shared a similar opinion, writing, “The Aston Martins are going to sound livid.”

Now, the sound of engines doesn’t win championships on its own, but one fan certainly thinks that it’s a good start. They said, “It sounds promising, not gonna lie.”

Luckily for Aston Martin, they will be the only team that Honda will be supplying during the upcoming season, and they have no current plans to expand on that inside their UK-based Milton Keynes factory.

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Aston Martin are currently leading the development race in one aspect of the 2026 F1 regulations

Another ball that is in Aston Martin’s court for the upcoming campaign is that their title sponsor and fuel supplier, Aramco, is understood to have the ‘most advanced’ formula for the new synthetic fuels that will be in play.

Ferrari’s fuel supplier is believed to be the ‘least advanced’, which doesn’t bode well for the new entry Cadillac, nor their long-time customers, Haas.

With the biggest change in the upcoming 2026 regulations being the new engine formula, it is expected that we will see a number of retirements early on in the season next year as they try to work out some teething issues.

However, the grade of fuel that powers the engines will play a pivotal role in who will be finding themselves trundling back to the garage early, and who will be taking the chequered flag.

At this moment in time, it’s definitely looking good for Aston Martin.