Is it blue enough?
Edit, of course it is they will be using very very light oil
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Is it blue enough?
@Mudflap, last year you said Mercedes would get the biggest engine upgrade in the winter since starting these engines. Has that come true and what has improved or has the car improved so much?
you live and learn! TOYOHARU TANABE
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, HONDA F1
After a long wait for this season to begin, the first three races have come and gone very quickly and now, starting this weekend, we are heading into another triple header. Our race team returned to Milton Keynes after Hungary and, with no race last weekend, it meant everyone had a short rest after what were busy weeks for them. However we continue having to work with the various restrictions in place both when it comes to pre-race preparation and our trackside operations.
In the first triple header, we had two podium finishes with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing. However, we saw a clear gap to our rival therefore we are now working together with Red Bull to close it. In HRD-Sakura, we have worked on coming up with solutions for the issues we encountered during those first three races, while also analysing and optimising our PU management strategy.
Silverstone is usually one of the highlights of the F1 year, with a huge crowd of enthusiastic and knowledgeful fans, in the country that can be considered the home of motorsport, but unfortunately that great atmosphere they create will be missing this year. This is a home race for Red Bull Racing an indeed for the majority of F1 teams, and Silverstone is also very close to our own facility in Milton Keynes, therefore we would normally have had the race drivers visiting our factory to meet the non-race team staff, who in turn got the opportunity to come to the track with their families, to see the results of their hard work at first hand. Sadly, those activities will not be possible this year. But we know everyone will be following our progress and supporting us by watching on TV.
The fast and flowing track is a favourite with most drivers as it is an exciting high speed lap with some great corners. This is the circuit our whole car-PU package is given a severe test. We and our two teams learned a lot from the first three races and we will be putting that to good use this weekend, for the first of two races on consecutive weekends at Silverstone. Last year we had a tough race when an incident kept us off the podium. We think it won’t be easy this year either, but we will keep pushing with both our teams.
