bigblue wrote: ↑06 Mar 2026, 18:56
Another interesting aspect of what's being reported are quotes like the following,
Honda had only retained about 30% of its original world championship-winning staff going into the project
(
from The Washington Post)
and
"They re-entered with, let's say, only, I'm guessing, 30% of their original base staff and now in a budget cap era
(
from the BBC).
The former makes it sound like a statement of fact (minus a little approximation), and the latter says it's a guess, and could be read to mean it's entirely speculation. Inevitably that 30% figure is going to take on the aura of fact over time, but it's really hard to know whether that's an informed figure or not.
That quote is from the 3 TPs interview by F1. Newey actually used the words "I'm guessing". In other words I haven't seen real data on this. This is just from what we saw when we went to Japan.
