Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
Makes you wonder if Mercedes can be said to be fives years ahead of BMW's road for instance. Is Honda ahead of Toyota or Renault ahead of Ford or Opel.
Why would Honda be ahead of Toyota considering that the TS020 was raced in 2012? Formula One adopted hybrid engines two years later?

Is Honda ahead of GM and Ford re hybrid engines? Yes.


Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
I think l see his point, the smaller teams cannot compete with their small resource base on the innovation front compared to the army of resources that the big teams can throw at it.
This is mostly irrelevant to the argument. Formula One has almost always been like this. What the current rules have done is frozen the advantage.