My complain goes to...... FIA!!!
Maybe Honda could have done it much better, but I really think people hugely understimate how difficult must be designing a PU as complex as these, with no real world testing!!
Can someone point me to some other engineering challenge similar to this? Designing a complex PU wich
cannot be tested into the car it is designed to propel until few weeks before the competition starts is, IMHO, the idea of a complete dumbass. How are they supposed to know if the concept will work as expected? What are they supposed to do if there´s some teethering problem when the season start so soon after those tests? I´ll tell you, they can do nothing more than suffer a worldwide embarrasment wich, believe it or not, could not be solved during the whole season because there was a token restriction, and actually.... not even in next season!!!
as
the tokens didn´t allow for the neccessary redesign not even in winter, before 2016 season.
So basically Honda has been trapped with a poor design for two complete seasons. Yes that was their design, but this is engineering, you can´t ask a company to design a completely new PU from scratch and force them to
succed at first try, or suffer a worldwide humiliation for two complete years. Complete nosense
I´m still wondering how Honda dared to enter F1 with such idiotic rules.
And before someone says Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari are competing with same rules, they didn´t have a high perfomance target to match as Honda, because this complex PU evolve VERY fast, so only in one season they improved a lot, and Honda was forced to compete with them and deliver similar perfomance without their experience and kwnowledge, so they were forced to assume a lot more risks than the rest. Then they failed, true, but if you take into consideration all I said in this post, I really think FIA is way more responsible for Honda failure than Honda theirselves
Now
2017 is in reality second attempt for Honda, first time they can completely redesign the PU, but obviously their competitors were not still during 2015 and 2016, they have been improving a lot while Honda was stuck with, more or less, 2015 design, so now their perfomance target is even higher when Honda actually could not develop a proper PU concept due to past seasons restrictions, so this season the target became even more difficult to achieve
But people will keep saying Honda is useless, they don´t know what they´re doing, etc.
What I say is, poor Honda
Ok, rant over, now I feel better
