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Originally Posted by JamesH
Since Honda are entering the fray, they have a year of development more than all the other engine manufacturers, I presume. Surely that is a little unfair.
Or have I misunderstood, and the Honda engine was frozen at the same time?
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Jumping in later, they have fewer "tokens" available to fix what they determine needs fixing their first year out.
If they
have to go to something like this, I think this was a slick way to do it. Sure, later entrants get the advantage of seeing some of what worked and didn't but a lot of it is super-secret intake and combustion chamber design or other goodies you can't know without getting your hands on a power unit (unlikely) or poaching talent from another manufacturer (more likely but possibly still very difficult). Probably it's a smaller advantage than it appears and the later you enter, the less opportunity you have to fix your mistakes.