McLaren MP4-26 Mercedes

[ell66]

Very Very Very short chord flap running on the Macca.

Looks the same to me, its been very short for a few races now.

[aral]

Rumours abound that McLaren will be using Honda turbo engines in 2014. Interesting.

[scuderiafan]

Rumours abound that McLaren will be using Honda turbo engines in 2014. Interesting.

Do you have any text for that?

EDIT:

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/ ... h-mclaren/

^SPEED article. There's also a thread on this forum

[PaulB]

That would be cool. The question is: Is Honda ready and consequent enough to develop a new F1 engine. As weve seen, they weren't it in 2003 to 2009...

[MIKEY_!]

They will have the advantage of not running a current engine program as the existing manufacturers have to.

[aral]

They will have the advantage of not running a current engine program as the existing manufacturers have to.

????? ALL teams will be using new engines, so all will have to restart from scratch! Honda are just as capable of manfacturing a competitive engine as Mercedes, Ferrari, etc.

[raymondu999]

What Mikey means is they don't have to split resources.

[adrianjordan]

That would be cool. The question is: Is Honda ready and consequent enough to develop a new F1 engine. As weve seen, they weren't it in 2003 to 2009...

I thought that Honda engines were pretty well thought of until the engine freeze. At which point they took the freeze a bit more literal than other engine suppliers and as a result fell behind...

...am I wrong?

[Florio]

They also had the most powerful V10 didn't they?

[scuderiafan]

They also had the most powerful V10 didn't they?

Without this metamorphosing into a Honda thread, I remember at Suzuka in 2004, the BAR Honda team had the "Suzuka Special" V10 that had around 980 horses.

[Holm86]

They also had the most powerful V10 didn't they?

No they didnt.

Im pretty sure BMW is seen to have had the most powerfull V10's.

[dan928]

No they didnt.

Im pretty sure BMW is seen to have had the most powerfull V10's.NO

honda had the most powerfull v10 in suzuka

[wesley123]

I am very sure BMW had the most powerful V10 engine, rumored to reach 1000hp at monza.

Apart from that, you are the first to even state Honda had the most powerful V10's

[gridwalker]

I think Honda had the most powerful V10 back in 1990 ... more recently, I never read a single report that ranked the modern Honda V10 as top of anything (except perhaps weight).

[wesley123]

Indeed, and apart from that I remember more Honda blow ups than any other engine on the grid.

Their V8 wasnt very good either