Honda F1 Charity Day
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megy

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2,429 posts

243 months

Wednesday 6th June 2007
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Honda have put the tickets on sale now for the factory open day, 15th July at their Brackley factory, have a look here for details and the link to the purchase page.

pistol pete

805 posts

292 months

Wednesday 6th June 2007
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Intresting planning. about 7 miles away, and the same day as Prodrive's open day. And, both while I am on holiday frown

Pete

belleair302

7,008 posts

236 months

Wednesday 6th June 2007
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The Honda F1 facility is not one of the best, I would go to the Prodrive Open day...more to see and do....in addition to enjoying some motorsport heritage. Honda F1, one win, millions wasted and its going to get worse not better!

Ramthorne

4,226 posts

245 months

Wednesday 6th June 2007
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Will they be showing off their new hotel?

I understand the pod design did not stand up to being stranded at the docks, and that demolition is the only viable option. hehe


Pradley

93 posts

251 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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pistol pete said:
Intresting planning. about 7 miles away, and the same day as Prodrive's open day. And, both while I am on holiday frown

Pete
I have booked one of these for Sat and the other for the Sunday - cant do anything about your holiday but i'm sorted : )

Goochie

5,795 posts

248 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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When at uni I visited Prodrive, Ralliart, Jaguar (redbull) F1 and Morgan. Prodrive is easily the most impressive of them all.

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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Honda have a much longer involvement in motorsport than Prodrive. Apart from the motorcycle legacy whioch dates back to the 50s, they've had a number of F1 projects going right back to 1964. They always put on a good display of their historic hardware whenever they show up at Goodwood.

They're current situation is a bit of an embarrasment but that only belies their genuine motorsport heritage.

rubystone

11,254 posts

288 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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I've heard from good sources that Brackley wasn't really up to scratch compared with other facilities, specifically in terms of technology...I'd imagine that Prodrive is pretty much state of the art...Honda F1 are trading on past successes a bit too much for my liking

LocoBlade

7,653 posts

285 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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Ive not actually been round the main factory at Brackley but have looked round one of the satellite workshops that preps the bodywork etc and even that was interesting. Probably not a patch on Paragon (Mclaren) but will still be a decent day out I would guess, as long as you actually get to see everything.

-Z-

8,283 posts

235 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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hell they're so old fashioned even their website header says "BARhonda"!

http://www.hondaracingf1shop.com./products.php?id=...

anonymous-user

83 months

Tuesday 12th June 2007
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blimey, thats lousy! Things like that give a good indication of a companies culture. redface

So i emailed them biggrin

Got this reply.

"Thank you for your recent Email, we will deal with it promptly during the next working day.Depending on the nature of your enquiry it may occasionally take several days to reply to you with a complete response.Your email is important to us , please be assured that we will be giving it our full attention

Thank you for your custom.

Honda Racing F1"

Will be fun to see how long they take to fix that, hopefully quicker than they are fixing the car.