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Originally Posted by jmlima
Other way around, Porsche re-badged TAG.
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Umm, no. He had it right the first time. TAG funded (hence TAG naming rights), but designed and built by Porsche. It was a sore point with McLaren and TAG that they funded the entire thing but Porsche got so much (deserved) good press without spending any of their money. Running the engine in a 956 prototype test mule and not keeping it secret didn't help!
The Footwork/Porsche V12 was failure for various reasons (I think a fair bit being lack of funding). Porsche built a V10 for Footwork after the V12 mess, but Footwork decided to move on. It's my understanding that the V10 was meeting its weight and performance goals.
I like how this thread has almost no content on McLaren and Honda. I can see some slight parallels with the Porsche V12, but not much. The biggest differences being team sizes, budget and challenges of the current era vs back in the day.
Richard