Yup. For 2015, to some extent, one would still forgive Honda for having just entered the sport after a long time and getting it wrong.TyreSlip wrote: ↑06 Mar 2026, 04:59Honda did the same with its 2015 engine, but somehow it was all McLaren's fault for asking for a size zero concept. People here are doing the same by solely blaming Newey and not holding Honda accountable at all.Rikrikrik wrote: ↑06 Mar 2026, 04:41Honda seems to have put a bunch of recent graduates to work on the engine as their final project. It's unbelievable how a company of this caliber could produce something so pathetic.damager21 wrote: ↑06 Mar 2026, 04:37Honda PU has turned out to be a joke. For all talks of solutions being applied for this race weekend, the engine wont do even 1 proper lap.
This is an absolute disaster... without major exceptions from FIA and other teams, I dont see how Honda can turn around this season.
Honda had carte blanche with the 2017 redesign, and it ended up being worse for power than the 2015 one and just as unreliable. To this day, however, the narrative was that all of Honda's woes for years stemmed from McLaren holding them back with unreasonable demands.
On that note, Audi had a respectable debut with decent times in FP1, making them look a 100 times more professional than Honda.
In 2026, there can't be any excuse. Mercedes, Ferrari, Audi, Ford - all have built their engine which are way more reliable. Japanese companies taught the world concepts like six sigma and building high quality products... all that is lost.
On a separate note, AM has brought a host of new parts. Looks like they will have to test these parts it in the garage
