McLaren-Honda in trouble. When improvement? (from
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Honda's problems are frustrating and probably no one expected that it will take so much. And far from finished. At the beginning of the season as the race developed systematically to go back some time back. A series of failures torpedoed efforts Honda. They came back with some settings to those of the beginning of the season. Mercedes power deficit surely now exceeds
100 hp - an abyss. There is no chance for any fight with any of the car on the track.
The maximum speed of eligibility confirm this thesis. McLaren is the slowest and lose up to
20 km / h. Faster cars are even Manora with last year's Ferrari engine. In previous races this deficit was smaller, in the range
12-15 km / h.
The maximum speed Silverstone 2015 According to Auto Motor und Sport on the basis of interviews with engineers team, as many as
two seconds on one lap, costing them at Silverstone Honda engine power shortage. Sam car is weaker than the Mercedes by about
0.5 seconds. The rest of the deficit comes from the tires, which by the fact that the car is slower are not properly warmed up. Fernando Alonso lost today in qualifying 2.7 seconds to Lewis Hamilton. Eric Boullier said that the engine at Silverstone is costing them a lot more than
50% of losses. So suggestions Amuse they are not far from the truth.
Just a few weeks ago it was estimated that the car and the engine about half responsible for the gap to the leaders. Since then, the car has clearly improved, and the loss remained unchanged. Honda uses a very conservative settings at Silverstone, forced them to do a series of failures. Currently they are waiting for changes in the rules on the penalties for extra-curricular engines. It may be that manages to be entered before the race in Hungary, and not certainly against Belgium. This means one additional set of elements of the drive unit without penalty and for each subsequent additional elements maximum shift at the end of the rate.
At Silverstone Team drivers use the old engines: one with Bahrain and the other from Spain. Which they have had already a lot of kilometers and their strength and reliability are at the highest level. Therefore, they use them very carefully: reduced power and number of runs in training. Drivers do not work out the best settings for it. And work on the development of the car are very slow. Even in Saturday's workout we tested new components of the car. New engines, founded tactically in Austria is still undergoing review and it is uncertain whether they will be able to revive (one suffered in a collision with Raikkonen and the other had a failure).
Honda is preparing amendments to give more power. The Japanese are still very confident that this package will give a good performance again this season, in the second part. Do you remember for sure the information from the beginning of the year that the theoretical performance of this engine is very large, but not used because of the failure rate. You definitely have a lot of store. They plan to use the last seven tokens (vouchers) quickly. Perhaps you've Hungary will take effect if the previously mentioned changes in the regulations, as it is not in Belgium. Improved want to turbo combustion engine alone.
