Glamorous: Mercedes will help Honda, Red Bull contrast
The Japanese House would accept the idea of using external consultancy to enhance the power of its own power unit: Mercedes will be assisted by the Mercedes that is willing to sell Honda's technology on the electronic front and ...
As anticipated after the tests in Bahrain, Honda has decided to accept external consultations to try to solve the problems affecting its power unit. An already unexpected news, but nothing compared to the name of the facility that will provide the support needed by Japanese technicians: the Mercedes!
Between the two parties all the details of the counseling were defined (in the paddock it is said that it will be mainly focused on the electronic and hybrid front) but there is an unexpected clutter that must be overcome before the operation becomes operational.
This would be possible because in the intentions of the new rules the engines should not have a power gap greater than 3% compared to a reference track such as that of Barcelona. The FIA, therefore, would be evaluating the data collected in the first three GPs of the season: if there was a scissors greater than 3% (and between Mercedes and Honda is much bigger!) The Federation could take action with Equalize the values.
An adversary team (shown in Red Bull Racing) does not seem to be in favor of this partnership, appealing to intellectual property (the same as preventing it from selling a chassis to another team) even in the case of knowledge transfer on the front of the power unit.
But in fact this is an unusual case, and will be analyzed in the Strategy Group scheduled today.
It seems, however, that Red Bull has little hope of blocking the deal, as the Honda's stay in Formula 1 is dancing. In contravention of their guidelines, Japanese technicians have been humbled by accepting a solution for them Not easy, but that would ensure a future for a project that today is actually on a dead track.
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