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Originally Posted by Casper
Please explain how they had a year to learn. What happened was they had a year to build a PU while others raced, they could not for instance halt that design, build and R&D to watch the other cars and see what happened. Early 2014 or late 2013 they set in stone their design and had to live with the result, not say in October 2014 we can see where others went wrong and we can now design and build to avoid those mistakes. In fact I doubt that they had any advantage at all as they could not walk up to Renault or MB and ask them what the problems were.
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Although your fundamental argument is correct that the Honda unit would probably have been designed in 2013 or earlier, I am sure that Honda would have had at least one "observer" in place within the McLaren personnel to keep his/their eyes on the Mercedes unit and to report back to Japan.
However, as McLaren, as acknowledged by the team, were always at least one "development" behind Mercedes and other teams using their PSUs, it might be difficult to gauge what if any benefit they might have derived from their observations, and if indeed they would have been able to incorporate any ideas garnered from the Mercedes' units.