Max Verstappen Takes Break From His Hectic Red Bull Schedule in $27,500 Honda SUV

Tanish Chachra | 18/01/2023
Max Verstappen Takes Break From His Hectic Red Bull Schedule in $27,500 Honda SUV

As a two-time world champion, Max Verstappen has a hectic schedule compared to most F1 drivers. And now, to maintain the high Red Bull has gained over the years, they would be needed to be on their toes even more.

Considering they are touted as the favorites for the next season amidst the rising challenge by Mercedes and Ferrari. They must maintain the edge they got with the new regulations in 2022.

Although, their wind-tunnel penalty could bring them more disadvantages. But according to Mercedes, that saves them money for development too. So, it would be interesting to see how Red Bull can use the current situation to their advantage.

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Max Verstappen relaxes with a fancy Honda

Seeing his current schedule with F1, Honda presents an ad where the 25-year-old’s retreat from his work is a $27,500 Honda car. In the commercial, the Dutchman can be seen driving the cars through serene roads and eventually taking an unpaved path uphill.

He relaxes there for a while amidst all the greenery, but it lasts until he gets a message from his team ordering him to come back as they have a lot of work pending.

The Dutchman returns to the team’s headquarters and says, “ok, back to sensible stuff”. The car he advertised is known as Honda HR-V, available in Europe, Japan, and other markets and comes in a bigger version in North America.

Red Bull with Honda until the end of this era

In 2022, Honda left F1 to focus on their EV market. But Red Bull, after successfully campaigning for the engine freeze, managed to strike a deal with them to use their engines until 2025.

Meanwhile, they ensured to initiate their own engine operations by the name of Red Bull powertrains, on which they plan to run the Red Bull cars from 2026.

Also, they have hired some staff from Honda who was involved in their F1 engine manufacturing. This partnership between them will go on till 2025, and therefore Red Bull keeps doing their commercial projects in return.

With Honda, Red Bull managed to come to the top of the F1 standings and are likely to dominate further as they have also aced the aero regulations which came last year.

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Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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