Honda engine

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I've yet to do any proper research on this, as I'm sat on my lunchbreak and don't have the time, so figured I'd ask the PH F1 knowledge centre.

With the news just broken about Merc's cleverly positioned engine/turbo setup. does this leave Honda with enough time to get down to the drawing board and copy the design to an extent? I imagine at this point they're fairly far in to their R+D, but is there time to change things?

Obviously, if they're a long way in to the production then Honda are probably in the same situation as everybody else on the grid - presumably going back to the drawing board for next year's egnine. But if not then surely this gives Honda a massive advantage (at least financially) in that they've yet ot spend too much time and R+D going off in a different direction, only for the original version to be scrapped...

Thoughts on how Honda will arrive in 2015? And for that matter the other engine manufacturers?

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10 Pence Short said:

Don't you think Mercedes engine customer McLaren already had a good idea how Merc approached the engine design?

Remind me, who is partnering with Honda next year?

Firstly, I'm not sure, hence asking the question.

Secondly, as per the bit in bold, again I'm not sure at what stage Merc released this info to their customers? Obviously it was a long way behind when they released the info to the works team, or at least the info released to customers was limited as Merc have managed to create a much better package around the engine than the customers. Again, it's something I'm not sure on and hence asked the question.

10 Pence, do you have any idea on my questions or are you in the business of answering with questions?

(Queue "I don't know, am I?")

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PhillipM said:

I would imagine they'd had enough time anyway, there was plenty of discussion over whether it was feasible last year on here before they engines were even revealed, so I imagine every team considered it.

Which begs the question of why it was only persued by Merc...

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Scuffers said:

Sky's bit on it was mostly bullst.

Care to elaborate at all Scuffers?


^ I don't think there is huge hype about Honda transforming McLaren to a winning team, or certainly not from myself. But I think it will be cool to see that partnership again. Not that I remember it - before my time

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entropy said:

But they do. Have a look on the F1technical forums.

The people psoting in said forums certainly do not make up the "vast majority".