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The rotation of information is critical to F1 and this is where Honda gave itself a handicap. Already they were up against it because of coming in late to the party when other manufacturers had three to five years headstart on the technology. But to compound that, they are cut off and isolated in Japan without the throughput of the know-how that has rotated through the Europe based builders.
It’s a similar thing with tyre knowledge. The top teams have tyre technicians with years of experience of different teams and it’s very valuable with unpredictable tyres such as the Pirellis.
Honda has a proud tradition of training engineers in F1 who then go on to the other areas of the business. It’s always been part of the rationale for going racing, as well as to show the challenging spirit.
They are now in the realms of damaging the brand, the longer their problems in F1 go on.
Attracting any people with cars sounds like a largely unrewarding existence.
Only person I've ever had come up to me about the car was a small (like 3-5 year old) child with his parents, little dude was stoked about seeing a Honda S2000. Let him sit in it and start it, that was when the car was stock.
That is 100000000x cooler to me than the approval of any adult.
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