Honda F1 project leader Yusuke Hasegawa has outlined a number of reasons why Honda has been struggling so badly in the beginning of the 2017 Formula One season. He confirmed that lots of problems were not discovered while running on the dynamo meter.
i was very surprised by the awful pace in Sochi after gaining some tenths in Bahrain post test maybe they didn't use this changes in Russia and will use it in Spain ?!!
i assume ...
Fabrega is usually right, but then it comes down to this, do you take a modest improvement, and use another power unit, and any penalties that come with it? Or do you wait for a bigger update for ~Montreal or Baku?
I agree. Penalties are coming either way. They should just bring the update in and hope for the best results. However at this point of time I doubt Honda knows what it is doing or even has anything substantial in works apart from minor increments that are not going to help at all.godlameroso wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 18:47Fabrega is usually right, but then it comes down to this, do you take a modest improvement, and use another power unit, and any penalties that come with it? Or do you wait for a bigger update for ~Montreal or Baku?
I think they should just introduce whatever they have the second they get it, penalties be damned. It's better to start at the back with a faster car than start at the back with a slower car.
Why would they hot blow or burn gas to turn the turbine when they have the MGU-K?
It has to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year, including paying for Alonso and paying McLaren sponsorship.George-Jung wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 22:51How much money is Honda burning on this project? Can't be cheap..with them writing of so many engines?
If you beleive Hasegawa (and I do) they have McLaren people helping them back in Japan. So they aren't hiding anything.amho wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 22:58I don't understand why always Honda changes the whole engine when a failure occures during the season.they say it's time consuming to repair or change the failed part therefore it's better to change whole engine but I think they hide something from mclaren technisians, they might have something revolutionary or a fundamental design error to hide?
We aren't talking about pulling out a simple part like a water pump on your car here. The parts are all so integrated, customized and tightly packaged on these power units that each failure has a knock on effect to other parts. You have to send the unit back to the factory to get dismantled and rebuilt basically. In the field it doesn't make sense to replace one small component it's easier and much faster to just uncrate the spare engine, MGU-K, Battery etc and slap it in the car then figure out why the last engine failed later in the week in Sakura.amho wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 22:58I don't understand why always Honda changes the whole engine when a failure occures during the season.they say it's time consuming to repair or change the failed part therefore it's better to change whole engine but I think they hide something from mclaren technisians, they might have something revolutionary or a fundamental design error to hide?
The batteries are charged primarily by the turbine, not the MGU-K, the MGU-K does nothing to the turbine, only the crank. The MGU-H does the bulk of the energy harvesting, so you need a powerful combustion process to not only power then crank and by consequence the MGU-K, but also to create enough exhaust energy to power the MGU-H. The MGU-H <-> MGU-K is unlimited so you can potentially deploy more than the 4MJ allowed from ES -> MGU-K.
The blocks themselves are a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things.George-Jung wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 22:51How much money is Honda burning on this project? Can't be cheap..with them writing of so many engines?
