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How can we be perfectly honest about future unknowns?
Draw a line under the 2001 season and above the line we see BAR Honda in 6th place, with 5 teams under them, not 2. Below the line we can't see any results obviously.
But what we can see is the extension of the Honda engine contract, the hiring of David Richards and Geoff Willis and their track records, by all reports a decent-sized budget, and a pair of top drivers (despite all the knocks on him, if BAR Honda gives Villenueve a good weapon, he will know what to do with it. And Panis is just plain fast).
So if you think you can foreclose the future on Honda, Richards, Willis and Oastler, and JV and Panis and all their sponsors, then fine.
Your a braver man than I am Gunga Din.
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