Thread: Team Scuderia Toro Rosso: Now with HONDA
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Old 6 Apr 2018, 16:48 (Ref:3813294)   #263
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Originally Posted by F1Guy View Post
FYI, you are totally incorrect. Honda are not using a McLaren supplied MGU-H in 2018. The MGU-H in the 2018 Honda/Toro Rosso is a 100% Honda Racing built unit. Not supplied by McLaren, or any other "third part supplier". The 2018 Honda MGU-H is somewhat of a copy of the 2017 Honda/McLaren unit, but is 100% designed and built in-house by Honda Racing in Japan. Again, it has nothing to do with McLaren, or McLaren Applied Technologies.
Could you elaborate on a couple of points, based on the strong assertion you make in the post here please?

Firstly, how can a copy of a MAT design also be 100% Honda designed?

Secondly, if the 2018 design is a copy of the MAT design, how have Honda got around the associated IP rights of a MAT design?

Thirdly, the indication that Honda are using components from MAT comes from a Honda Press Release in Jan 2018 that said: 'Until last year, Honda was relying on McLaren technically quite a bit. We were receiving components supplies in Europe through McLaren. Battery pack (ES) was McLaren's, and it was supposed that we were going to do the battery by ourselves sometime later. There are complications in law regarding battery about air transportation and customs. That's why battery pack had to be done at Milton Keynes. So we have to expand internal production otherwise we cannot continue. We must sort these out urgently.' - are you able to confirm that Honda have expanded this internal production?
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