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In my view, Honda has never been really competitive since David Richards was let go. This was a huge mistake and now they're paying the bill.
HQ in Japan should eat dirt, call Richards back and let him run the team again, since his own plans of a new F1 team seem to have been stalled anyway.
i feel they probably have given up on this years car development. the only new things will be as test for next year, which i hope they are a long way through the development of already. ultimately they need to work out what works and what doesn't, and more importantly why. i'd hope the recent technical staff signings will help in this, and i'd expect them to be working flat out on next years car rather than persevering with what is patently a dog of a car. they've managed a point, and with a fair wind they may fluke another, that should be enough to keep them off the bottom of the scorers sheets for the year.
meanwhile they can take all Super Aguri's data and use something positive to take into next years car, from a clean slate, cos this one ain't working
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Originally Posted by SteveMcQueen
I can't forget that Honda was given a two-race ban for using a secondary fuel tank the year after Richards left the team. Richards was lucky to be out of the picture when the results of his stewardship were finally discovered.
Honda are a long ways from being a contender. They haven't got a clue. They don't know why the old car was fast or why the new one is slow. My guess is that it will take at least three years to turn the situation around.
I believe Ruben's words were "I'm driving flat out and I can't catch the !@@$% Spyker!"....
At this stage, it can go one of two ways for Honda.
1) This humiliation will cause major changes to the team and equipment that will make them unbeatable(obviously not overnight!) in the years to come, or
2) Honda will walk away.....
That has to seriously frustrating :sQuote:
Originally Posted by luvracin
literally carrying the burden of the world with that whacky paint job.
To be honest, they probably already have. It would explain their slide back down the pack after they appeared to be making progress a few races back. Rather than ploughing resources into maybe making the RA107 quick enough to grab a couple more points by the end of the year, it's probably a far better move to start from a clean sheet of paper (or the RA106) and work towards building a proper car that can regularly challenge for points next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by VkmSpouge
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Originally Posted by V12
Assuming they don't care about sponsors :D
I found it a little strange that Rubens keep on driving. If I was two laps down, driving as hard as I could but without any hope of catching even my slowest rival, then I would have found it very difficult to keep pushing and not pulled into the pits and parked up.
I really don't see what Honda or Rubens gained from their performance on Sunday, it's not like they were testing new parts or trying out different set ups.
Maybe Gil DeFerran's frustration was warranted. I would have expected a much better situation from Honda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm