Who says they are not squeezing maximum speed with their chasis? Again u have no data to present and u compare Mclaren with STR. 2 completely different chasis phylosophis and very different engines. Honda itself admited their ICE has less HP than Mercedes and Ferrari and that they are still little bit under Renault. STRs engine is a second generation engina, same as Honda and we all know that last year Ferrari was quite close to Mercedes power wise. So, Honda is somewhere in the range of the STRs engine.
U said STRs car excels in the corners that Mclaren is abd at, and jet they couldnt achieve points in Suzuka. Youre whole theory collapses with this example.
Renault on the other hand is much worse than Redbull due to the facts:
1. Their car is from last year, made arround Mercedes engine
2. The car was barely updated at all
3. Redbull has a quicker lineup
4. The Lotus alone was made by much fewer funds last year, barely scrapped and stiched together together
If i would get the money to start my own F1 team, i would revive Arrows
its not me who said the honda has more power than the 2015 ferrari engine, its TR team boss himself and some of his drivers, i believe it was on ted kravitz notebook, if you want i can find it for you.
And this was i believe during the german gp and since then honda have brough consistent upgrades to their engine. and its not suprising the TR is botton of the speed traps.
the TR chassis i believe is a very efficient chassis producing good efficient downforce, unlike mclaren and TR chassis is more capable to gaining time during corners as evident in the the last few races. i have seen that mclaren are consistently running elements like monkey wings and the new batman wing to get downforce but honestly they creating more inefficient downforce. you hardly see TR running them.
As for renault , renault is not a small company , it a company with massive resources, but i find it hard to believe that they will be close to redbull next season. just like toyota, onces i believe they were said to have a very strong engine but there laptimes are bad, main reason, they never had a techincal expertise to lead. Redbull is very lucky they have the best designer Adrian Newey, and the redbull is more an evolution and it developed into this very efficient chassis. renault will never get close to redbull next year, unless, they get good technnical staff and plan for 2018 season. . if you are think renault will be good next season even close to redbull why dont you say it? and TR is some influence from redbull , and that one reason it as very similar feature to the redbull , no suprise it pretty good chassis,
as for honda,, they need to be brave and need try to supply a team not sauber but at least TR or williams , who might be capable to give the top guys challenge. i can understand why ron blocked them from supplying, but its time honda think about the future and not stuck with mclaren, or they will lose their image.
just to add to this mclaren mercedes in 2013 did poorly in japan and also in 2014 but that was when the unfortunate incident of jules death happened. it goes to show there its not an all out engine problem but a chassis problem that need to be addressed as well.
