Aston Martin’s Chief Trackside Officer, Mike Krack, recently explained how the team and Honda are now working together much more efficiently following the difficult start to their relationship in early-2026.
“It’s easy to point the finger, but we sat together and we said, ‘We are in this together.
We need to work hard to get out of it together’,” explained Krack, with the outfit cut adrift of the pack at most tracks so far.
“Believe me, it was tough, but it is something that you have to go through, and then you improve from there.
“I think we need to be grown up, we need be professional, in such situations, and we need to get ourselves out of it.
Aston Martin’s Chief Trackside Officer, Mike Krack, recently explained how the team and Honda are now working together much more efficiently following the difficult start to their relationship in early-2026.
“It’s easy to point the finger, but we sat together and we said, ‘We are in this together. We need to work hard to get out of it together’,” explained Krack, with the outfit cut adrift of the pack at most tracks so far.
“We knew that there would be a lot of difficult moments. We had more than one meeting where we discussed this, and I think it improved the relationship big time – in the garage, in the engineering office, and also in the whole technical collaboration between [Aston Martin’s factory in] Silverstone and [Honda’s headquarters in] Sakura.
“Believe me, it was tough, but it is something that you have to go through, and then you improve from there.
“I think we need to be grown up, we need be professional, in such situations, and we need to get ourselves out of it. If we manage to be in the game again very soon, then I think we can maybe sit together, look back at these last six months, and take all the positives that we learned from it.”
