For seventeen seasons the team that became Aston Martin raced with engines bought from Mercedes, and 2026 is the first year it builds a car around its own works partner. The Aston Martin Formula 1 2026 Team Livery Low-Top Sneakers carry that season onto a shoe: the racing green of the AMR26, the lime that traces its bodywork, and the partner names that line its flanks.
The upper splits into two moods. Deep teal covers the toe box, eyestay and collar, while a black wedge sweeps in from the heel along the lateral side, and between them a lime-yellow swoosh fades into a thin stripe that runs toward the toe. The lettering is laid out like the side of the car rather than scattered as decoration: ASTON MARTIN aramco sits low on the heel panel, MAADEN, BOSS, Valvoline and coinbase ride along the quarter, and the white midsole carries a bold black PIRELLI exactly where a tyre sidewall would show it. Lime laces finish the shoe, so even from across a paddock car park it reads as a team design before a single word is legible.

A hand tightening the lime laces on a desk, in front of a green Aston Martin box marked with Pirelli and Valvoline.
The first Aston Martin season built with Honda
Aston Martin returned to Formula 1 under its own name in 2021, but the car always ran a customer power unit. That changed for 2026, when the team became Honda's works partner and the AMR26, designed under Adrian Newey, began racing with the Honda RA626H. Honda's own announcement of the livery describes the outfit as the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team and frames the season as the start of a works relationship rather than a supply deal, and the background artwork behind this shoe makes the same point with a green car marked “Powered by Honda” on Pirelli P Zero tyres.
The year was a reset for the whole grid as well. Formula 1's 2026 regulations brought smaller, lighter cars and power units that lean far more heavily on electrical energy while running on sustainable fuel, so every team arrived at the first race with an unproven package. The artwork is labelled “FORMULA 1 - 2026 ASTON MARTIN”, and that specificity is what separates the pair from generic racing-green merchandise: it belongs to the first chapter of a new partnership, with Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll in the cockpits.

Hands lifting one low-top out of its box, with the Aston Martin Aramco and Pirelli lettering visible along the heel and midsole.
Why the green has always been the point
British racing green has been tied to Aston Martin for more than a century, and the modern Formula 1 team turned it into a brighter, more saturated shade that reads well on television. When the AMR26 was unveiled in Dhahran in February 2026, reports noted that the familiar green stayed while a few touches of white and red arrived with Honda. Lime, the team's highlight color, is used sparingly on the car to sharpen edges and logos.
The sneakers follow the same hierarchy instead of flooding the shoe with color. Teal carries the shape, black anchors the heel and lower quarter, and lime is saved for the three places the eye lands first — the swoosh, its fading stripe and the laces. White appears only on the midsole, which gives the Pirelli wordmark the contrast it has on a real tyre, so the pair sits comfortably beside a team cap or jacket in the same palette rather than competing with it.

The pair in an open green Aston Martin Aramco box, on a lit collector shelf beside Aston Martin scale models.
Fans who follow every round of the new era can count down the same season with the Formula 1 Advent Calendar 2026, which pairs naturally with a shoe that is tied so closely to one year on the calendar.

Close look at the teal upper, black heel wedge and lime swoosh beside the matching Aston Martin 2026 presentation box.

Full side profile of the Aston Martin 2026 livery sneaker against the green Honda-powered race car artwork.
Most racing merchandise stays in a drawer between race weekends, while a shoe goes out on the commute, to the office and onto the plane. This pair keeps the start of Aston Martin's Honda era in plain sight on all of those days: 2026, the works engine, the racing green and the lime that outlines it.
Written by Curtis Mayhew, Footwear Specialist at DoesignUs.