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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/g...an-gp-1045560/ I think the only way to justify the stance the Honda is not making progress is to call articles such as the above as outright lies and that improved reliability is down to pure luck. Lastly, I will say... avoid conflating STR/Honda with... Honda as a F1 supplier. It is like measuring Renault by looking at McLaren, or Mercedes by looking at Williams. Nothing against STR, but teams don’t always live up to the capability of the power unit. Richard |
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But Red Bull can compare the data of both the Renault and Honda engines(since they own Toro Rosso) and gone with Honda. |
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Why do you think the opinion of a driver of the very team we're talking about is in any way relevant here? This is all PR speak, I am at a loss why someone would fall for that so blatantly.
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Mateschitz has been saying for the couple of years now that F1 was costing him too much for the returns. Now he gets free engines and is also being paid to have the Honda logo on all four of his cars. As a business man, he would be stupid to knock that sort of deal back. |
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I give up. I am wrong. The teams and drivers lie about everything. We can’t trust anyone or anything. Also, RBR only looks at financial data when making decisions, so we can expect a quick exit of DR and MV any day now to make way for pay drivers who bring money in. New rumor... Stroll to RBR?
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Hey Richard, it is quite clear, isn't it: McLaren was not succesful with Honda and they had "the best chassis". No way they can be wrong about that because they are a top team, right. Probably Williams has an even better chassis it is just the engine that sucks. After all, Williams is a (former) top team as well.
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And asking you to demonstrate where your claims come from isn't switching burden of proof. As point of fact, YOU made the claims the improvement was BS without any evidence. As you made the claims of a negative prior without any supporting evidence, you have the burden of proof just because you think we have to do your work for you doesn't make you right. You have not provided any evidence, lap times, fuel eficiency, etc to back up your claims. Sorry but that's not a discussion, that's an I'm right you're wrong child's argument. FYI, I have read articles on Autosport, F1Fanatic and others all demonstrating the improvements to the engine without being 'acolytes' as you claim. It's obvious you are just out to be argumentative for the purposes of thinking that's the 'smart' challenge but to me it shows your childish and think the internet is for trolling and well honestly that's what ruins the vast majority of it. |
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His comments about the return he was getting for the expense was not to try and get a better financial deal from their PU provider, but to get a better performance. RBR cost the company roughly $135million in 2011 - saving about $8-20million on PUs hardly makes a dent on the running costs.... |
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I will say that the best bet for anyone who wants to climb this mountain is seek out those who already apply scientific analysis to F1 races. There are a handful of people on the web who have backgrounds in statistical analysis (I am an educated amateur at this as I know enough "R" based statistical analysis to be dangerous) and apply that to F1 and other types of racing. They may already have published results. If doing it myself, I would tackle the problem from a few different perspective. The easiest is an analysis of power unit failures from 2017 and 2018. The trick here is to fish out when failures are power unit and when they are the car. Sometimes teams can play games at that. The implication here is that if it shows a statistically significant reduction in failures, that should be case closed to the question of "is Honda improving". This broadly assumes they are not trading performance to get reliability (I don't think they went backwards on power to get reliability) My other approach would be to try to measure relative performance of STR against other teams as the 2018 season progresses. Canada is only one data point, but I expect it would show a relative improvement. Race analysis can be difficult as extracting race pace is as much art as science because of factors such as knowing if a driver is in a train of cars (my pace is set by whoever is in front of me). Qualifying may expose more as there is less impact of other cars and lastly speed trap data can be an easy way to potentially expose gains in power, but lift and coast strategy and speed trap placement can cloud results. Overall I am mostly done with this topic of "Is Honda on the upswing or not". What i hope is my last comment is that I think some may confuse "upswing" with me elevating Honda to levels that I would not agree with. I think the power unit pecking order has been Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault and then Honda (even then, I am not going to argue Mercedes over Ferrari or vise versa as they are probably very close at this point). With Honda previously being a very very distant fourth. Now I think conversations as to where Honda ranks with respect to Renault are fair game. For me... that is the upswing. They have moved from distant fourth to challenging for third. And given that Renault can be a race winner in the right chassis... who knows what might happen in 2019? Overall, as this engine spec ages, teams are coalescing on solutions and the gaps are disappearing. It was inevitable. I think the problem has been that some people have been so disgusted with Honda's performance over the past few years that they just can't imagine that Honda might be moving beyond that period of failure. I can't blame the emotional drive for that line of thinking, but I also think it is blinding them to reality. Lastly, I am a Honda fan. So I could be accused of being blind to reality myself. But all you have to do is go back and look at my prior posts about Honda. I have been a tough critic and I have cut them zero slack. I try to call it like it see it even for one of my favorite marques. Both the good and bad. And as I mentioned early in this thread. I think the remaining question for 2018 is reliability for Honda. Time will tell. Richard Last edited by Richard C; 20 Jun 2018 at 14:06. |
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At least it has confirmed my thought that Toro Rosso brought in two "test drivers" this year, to try out the Honda unit, knowing they were not really going to get far up the grid with it..
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for me i like the change as i think it keeps RB in the sport, gives them manu backing and money, and improves Honda's position/influence to affect engine rules because they supply 2 teams now.
and with RB's considerable PR weight behind them it might even be possible to force a change a season earlier than 2021 or at least get a set of regs that suits them better then what Merc/Ferrari/Renault are pushing for. actually the one rule i hope they can get changed immediately via better representation is the reduced PU allotment rules. maybe its silly but still hoping for the best from Honda...a competitive Merc vs Ferrari vs Renault VS Honda is an exciting prospect to look forward. not so much about short term performance but more so about long term potential which imo this deal maximizes. |
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I do remember a graphic during fp3 that showed four or five different cars through a speed trap. The fastest was the torro rosso. Was surprising to see that, and I think it shows improvement right there.
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We need to see how fast the Toro Rossos are after the summer break
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Hartley was definitely a test driver bought in for his reliability and technical prowess. So much for that as he massively crashes in the last 3 rounds Gasly isn't a test driver though, at all. If they were to bring in another driver just for testing purposes, you'd get someone with good F1 experience like Di Resta, Weirhein, Massa, Gutierrez or heck you'd keep the guy that drove TR when it was a Renault... Kyvat! TR need Gasly for when D Ric moves on in case something happens with Sainz Jr (like maybe Renault gets in front of RB!). And boy now that they've switched to Honda, what is Dan waiting for? I'd be offering my services for free to Merc or Ferrari. Dan could win the title in that Ferrari. Don't waste any more of your prime years in the 3rd best car, you can't win when you've got talents like Lewis and Seb in the top 2 teams. Even if RB manage to cling on to 3rd best still next year, surely they won't be anywhere near as close to the top 2 as they are now. We don't really know how much of a step Honda has made yet... Hartley's first 2 laps in quali were slower than Gasly in the old engine. Plus maybe TR were slow as **** in the corners to get that high top speed. |
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That was an experimental low downforce setup that Hartley immediately dismissed as not working.
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Toro Rosso don't have nearly as capable a team as Red Bull, so they're hit and miss on things like setup. But when they're on it, they're at or near the front of the midfield. Take Bahrain for example when they got 4th place, in one of their first races with the Honda. McLaren with the Honda reached that maybe once or twice in all their years with them. As for being at or near the top of the speed traps, some might say they're running little wing, but they also placed 7th at Monaco with only the top 3 teams and Ocon's Force India ahead of Gasly. With Red Bull owning Toro Rosso, and them running Honda's vs RB's Renault's, they have all the data they need to make that decision. Being a customer of Renault is not an unbearable expense for them, they have plenty of money. I think it's more about equal or better performance with the Honda and the potential they see with the engine in their much better car than Toro Rosso.
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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/i...-really-works/ The simulator is equipped with sensors that keep a record of every input of the driver. It is used by rookies to learn the new tracks, by the veterans to refresh their memory and, most importantly, to validate the set-up of the real F1 cars. data settings for a honda engine in the redbull f1 race simulator would not be that hard |
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