No I believe this year's PU's are frozen too just like last year(For this year of course)
No I believe this year's PU's are frozen too just like last year(For this year of course)
They have been checked as a precaution and repaired where necessary and are in the pool.
Are you sure? I distinctly remember one upgrade.DarthPlagueisTheVise wrote: ↑24 Apr 2021, 05:21No I believe this year's PU's are frozen too just like last year(For this year of course)
I thought the same, but apparently no in season upgrades allowed. Honda is currently developing it's 2022 Power Unit that is flex fuel capable and will have that ready to hand over to Red Bull powertrains for use in 2022.mzso wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 08:27Are you sure? I distinctly remember one upgrade.DarthPlagueisTheVise wrote: ↑24 Apr 2021, 05:21No I believe this year's PU's are frozen too just like last year(For this year of course)
Any reference? I also heard on this forum that there'll be two new spec PUs this year.GhostF1 wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 08:38I thought the same, but apparently no in season upgrades allowed. Honda is currently developing it's 2022 Power Unit that is flex fuel capable and will have that ready to hand over to Red Bull powertrains for use in 2022.mzso wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 08:27Are you sure? I distinctly remember one upgrade.DarthPlagueisTheVise wrote: ↑24 Apr 2021, 05:21
No I believe this year's PU's are frozen too just like last year(For this year of course)
I think Sasha's suggesting that Wazari on f1tech and Yasuaki Asaki (whose photo is a few posts back) from HRD's powertrain R&D are the same person. I may be reading that wrong.
Wazari's side hustle is "hand model"bigblue wrote: ↑27 Apr 2021, 22:05Yeah, that was what it seemed to imply. But ... that doesn't sound likely, does it ? Or maybe it meant one of the other pictures further back in the thread was taken by Wazari. Not sure that was what was meant either. Or ... well, I just don't know exactly what was meant.
Anyway, Honda are on a roll ! Oh, yeah, they're also pulling out at the end of the year. So, I wonder how many, if any, technical development staff (as opposed to production, maintenance) will be seconded to Red Bull. Could be an interesting experience for some Japanese engineers to be thrown directly into Red Bull F1 culture.