BassVirolla wrote: ↑05 Mar 2026, 00:16
selvam_e2002 wrote: ↑04 Mar 2026, 22:58
dren wrote: ↑04 Mar 2026, 21:11
Season hasn't even started and people think this is going to be a shitbox for the entire season. I still expect podiums at some point in the 2nd half.
yes. they need 3 years like how they screwed the Mclaren in 2015....
I really, really hope that this is not the case. I'm a huge fan of Alonso and Newey, and now, at last, they are together.
But all this "we have to solve the vibrations and we will be competitive" brings me nightmares of Yasuhisa Arai and 2015.
Maybe I am not good chosing my preferences. I've been a Renault fan since the V10 Williams of the nineties.
Although from the outside the two situations seem comparable when looking at the tests, objectively everything has changed since then.
Honda had never made a hybrid engine for F1 and in any case had been out of it for many years, now instead they are starting from a solid base that they produced until last year and in the meantime they've been working on this project since 2023, not like in 2025 when they didn't even know where to start.
Honda 2015 ≠2025 totally.
Personally, I'm more concerned about the Japanese presumption, that's true. Thinking that a concept like the V-configuration is necessarily good.
Not really to fight for the back row (forget about it completely, Aston Martin has too many important sponsors, it can't happen). But spending a year fighting with Williams Racing Bulls etc. again would be unnerving, especially if the problem is a lack of power.
