So two Japanese car manufacturer giants, who continually haven't found the key to fight for the highest positions. And it looks as though as it takes another couple of years for the Japanese to become a serious threat to top challengers. But as long as one of them has not reached winning ways, then the another - home rival - isn't probably too worried.
Interestingly Toyota and Honda have quite often fought quite close to each other in F1. As I during winter somewhere said - they have collected almost equal amount of points from the last two seasons (88+35 and 38+86) and they also often ran quite close in 2002 and 2003. Only in 2004 the gap was too big to see any battle there.
In 2005 Toyota started well with BAR being far behind, but in the second half of the season BAR managed to catch Toyota in terms of competitiveness. For the start of 2006 Honda had gone in front, but by mid-season Toyota almost managed to catch Honda only to fall into deep trouble with reliability and Honda finding its form again. Now at the start of 2007 Toyota has a slight edge again.
15 races to go. How will the battle for the title of the best Japanese F1 team end this season?
