Honda Power Unit Hardware & Software

[PlatinumZealot]

As of September 1st Hasegawa was put in charge of the Milton Keynes factory in the UK. Is this good news?

http://members.f1-life.net/report/59923/

There is no one at Honda more drenched in F1 culture right now, so he is the man.

[63l8qrrfy6]

On a more serious note, based on the jobs they advertise they seem to do mostly stuff related to carbon fibre bits, ERS and some dyno work. Hardly anything exciting.

[MrPotatoHead]

I can trundle over there at some point if people are interested. The factory is perhaps 5 minutes from home.
It's a bit late for today (unless everyone is working past 8pm!)

MK? That’s where I’m from originally.

Yeah, for my sins I live in MK at the moment. My condolences on having originated here...

Haha MK isn’t that bad. Or at least it wasn’t.
I live in the Carolinas now in the US.

But back on topic - I don’t think Honda have any plans to move any of the major operations from Japan to the UK. I’ve worked with their R&D people and I just don’t see them making such a large (Honda) cultural shift

[godlameroso]

In that case MK is likely where they do the ERS mapping, where they try new things, shift energy around etc. Things that have to do with power unit integration with the chassis.

[Craigy]

In that case MK is likely where they do the ERS mapping, where they try new things, shift energy around etc. Things that have to do with power unit integration with the chassis.

Honda MK has been hiring motorsports electrical system people for a while now.

Edited to add:
https://www.motorsportjobs.com/en/job/h ... -vacancies

[godlameroso]

In that case MK is likely where they do the ERS mapping, where they try new things, shift energy around etc. Things that have to do with power unit integration with the chassis.

Honda MK has been hiring motorsports electrical system people for a while now.

Edited to add:
https://www.motorsportjobs.com/en/job/h ... -vacancies

Plot thickens.

[Joseki]

Honda MK has been hiring motorsports electrical system people for a while now.

Edited to add:
https://www.motorsportjobs.com/en/job/h ... -vacancies

Aren't those the roles that McLaren was in the charge of? Maybe they are going to use McLaren tech for 2018 before switching to full in house tech for 2019. It would be reasonable.

[Craigy]

Honda MK has been hiring motorsports electrical system people for a while now.

Edited to add:
https://www.motorsportjobs.com/en/job/h ... -vacancies

Aren't those the roles that McLaren was in the charge of? Maybe they are going to use McLaren tech for 2018 before switching to full in house tech for 2019. It would be reasonable.

There have been positions like that in Honda MK since the start of 2017.

[loner]

[ArcticWolfie]

Vandoorne getting an upgraded ICE this weekend:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vand ... ty-967512/

Honda has been pushing on with development and Motorsport.com understands the internal combustion engine has small modifications to improve performance.

[restless]

imo, we expect tji-like combustion from spec4 ?
In my book this is Major improvement, do you disagree?
No doubt they'll need months to finetune it... but still its major

[PlatinumZealot]

It can be Spec 4 - trial version. The real tuning of these engines in the chassis always take some kilometers to get right.

[loner]

Maybe it's spec 4 for the media but it's not the "real" spec 4? Usually Motorsport and AMuS are both reliable, it's strange to see two very different articles just 24h before FP1.

Michael Schmidt is a trusted reporter

Honda wants to debut at the GP USA with the long-awaited Spec 4.0 engine. In order not to lose all odds, Honda's last upgrade is to be distributed to two races . In Austin, it caught Stoffel Vandoorne, followed by Fernando Alonso in Mexico . Of all the development steps that Honda has introduced since GP Canada, Spec 4.0 is the largest.

it make sense because up to spec 3.7 they reached the turbo and mg-h peak it seems so to complete it to spec 4 nothing left but the ICE.

[Sasha]

Some neat Honda compressor patents......filed in Japan 2016-083764 and 2016-083765
Compressor blades(taken a page from the US Navy Submarine silent propellor design) and diffuser in the scroll around the compressor(works the same way as the one at the rear of F1 chassis).

Might explain the compressor everybody thought was axial design.

[stevesingo]

Some neat Honda compressor patents......filed in Japan 2016-083764 and 2016-083765
Compressor blades(taken a page from the US Navy Submarine silent propellor design) and diffuser in the scroll around the compressor(works the same way as the one at the rear of F1 chassis).

Might explain the compressor everybody thought was axial design.

I tried, unsuccessfully, to search the Japanese patent website. Do you have any links?