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Quote:Mehryar
I liked it to happen...even with forgetting 2018 to see them start performing but Claire has already refused such a deal with most straight way possible.
What I think is we should better Paddy's decisions on this, between those involved in the team (and probably across the grid) he knows the best how to turn an underperforming team to a good team with his plans.
Maybe sticking to most safe option for engines and focusing on our really weak points like chasis, aero, gearbox and suspension (well all of the car!) is better and then when we had a first level car, we can enter the fight for risking on engine side.
Quote:Ozzy Osbone
They aren't unlucky. I LOVE Honda and I LOVE their cars. I used to sell and work on them all the time. Utter brilliance. Then they sell out at the moment of glory, go on some idiot crusade for Hydrogen power and generally are about 5 years behind the curve ALL THE @#$%& TIME.
Come on Honda. What about all those great cars which never went wrong? High revving, flat to the ground. Just perfect cars.
Get it back Honda. You @#$%&.
Quote:Rumblestrip
Up to a point, Lord Ozzy, up to a point....
Setright, (aka LJKS - and the world's best motoring writer, to explain to our younger and antipodean listeners) a long, long time ago, absolutely swore by Honda's cars and bikes - in fact he transferred his allegiance from Bristol as, in his very experienced view, makers of the best road cars in the world. (Round about 1985, my grandma seems to remember.)
But it was an awful long time ago and the latest winged horrors and Blingomatics from Honda do suggest their complete and total loss of plot since then.
Completely separately, but it is a nice story....
Way back when, CAR magazine, for whom LJKS wrote, actually dared to rubbish a new Honda. Outraged, the MD of Honda wrote to the Editor saying that as CAR dared criticise their lovely new car, Honda UK would no longer be advertising in the magazine. But CAR, which was then knowingly the best car mag in the world, full stop, merely printed the letter on the Letters page without comment - and thus established with all its readers that the mag's comments were based on independent thinking rather than advertising revenue or pay drivers. This was a period when you could read letters from Giorgetto Guigiaro and Bob Lutz in the letters column of CAR (oh come on, you must have heard of them, one designed all the best Italian carss, other was Head Honcho of Ford) so such a public exposure really hurt Honda. Sadly no car mag has such balls nowadays.