bobobaba wrote:Brian Coat wrote:
So they may need a big combustion system upgrade and a comletely new MGU-H set-up, which sounds like a 2017 deal?
What do people think?
Very often I think Honda should have spent this huge amount of F1 money to support, develop the european distributors, train sales teams,teach business intelligence, use more effective marketing, etc. to increase Honda market share in EU. New Civic stands at the door and it will be unsuccessful in spite of the good product . As we saw many many many times in Honda products.
On the other hand I love to see Honda in the F1 where highest level engineering, techonolgy and pilots meet eachother. It is important to learn and I just hope that they will be the first who can apply these techologies in commercial cars.
And the race today was a clean message:there is a long way to reach the top. Hasegawa san is right:2-3 years to reach Merc level. Hope: Monza is only one track and top speed means nothing.
I think it would be better to choose Merc layout(turbo, compr) for 2017 than the traditional one. Maybe 2015 experiences help to make it compact size.
I hoped that Spa tokens brings prechamber system aand by Monza it will be a more competitive car. Not happened, and this is a big disappointment for me. I hope that end of the year will bring at least one podium.
When Honda first started, they made piston rings. Toyota rejected them because they were poor quality, but Mr.Honda didn't give up, he just tried harder. And eventually he succeeded, and this has been the Honda way ever since. Exposing yourself to faliure and rejection is hard, especially to the ego. It takes a lot of courage to say 'I tried I failed and I was wrong, but I'm not giving up, I'll learn from my mistakes and try again, and again.' The results speak for themselves, Honda has a lot of racing success.
