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Originally posted by ireshad
Also Honda have a bit of a tradition of coming into F1 proving a point and pulling out. Do they really want to then be saddled with a load of ex-BAR staff?
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Ireshad, I would thoroughly recommend you get a copy of the April Motor Sport, the one with the free & fantastic Video tape of the racing Auto Unions. On top of that, there is a very touching story of the shortest career ever in F1 of Jo Schlesser, who drove the ill fated awful Honda air cooled V8 magnesium-chassised RA302 which spelled Hondas doom in F1 at Rouen in 1968.
No Honda didn't prove a point and then pulled out of F1; says John Surtees:
" The episode of that car and the accident brought Hondas Formula One programme to an end. The fact that (the RA302) didn't work meant there weren't the resources to go back to what (the V12) we were originally going to do."
Soichiro Honda lost face big time, and you must know Asians to understand what this means. Honda must go into F1 in the name of Honda, and they must beat Toyota. Not to do so would make life not worth living for Honda himself.