FIA technical delegate Charlie Whiting has confirmed that Honda will be allowed to develop its power unit throughout the 2015 season on a similar basis as was allowed for the other manufacturers.
Is that site usually reliable?FrukostScones wrote:token time:
https://translate.google.de/translate?s ... t=&act=url
Merc wil app/all. will have used 26, renault 25, Ferr 20 till season start.
leaves 6+7+12 / 3= 8.333 = 8 for Honda
yep (not always of course, but the have decent insider info), but still this could be not completely correct... but I think this direction should be true.McG wrote:Is that site usually reliable?FrukostScones wrote:token time:
https://translate.google.de/translate?s ... t=&act=url
Merc wil app/all. will have used 26, renault 25, Ferr 20 till season start.
leaves 6+7+12 / 3= 8.333 = 8 for Honda
But according to the Spanish sports daily AS, Honda is still not happy with the arguable fairness of its development scope under the FIA's new ruling.
"They are asking for a further clarification," the newspaper claims. "They want to be like everyone else, with 32 tokens for development."
well , they are correct not to be happy but I suggest this is another negotiating position [ like charlie's opening offer ]mikeerfol wrote:http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/honda ... eze-ruling
But according to the Spanish sports daily AS, Honda is still not happy with the arguable fairness of its development scope under the FIA's new ruling.
"They are asking for a further clarification," the newspaper claims. "They want to be like everyone else, with 32 tokens for development."
Their argument doesn't make sense, but then neither do the rules or lack there of...lebesset wrote:well , they are correct not to be happy but I suggest this is another negotiating position [ like charlie's opening offer ]mikeerfol wrote:http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/honda ... eze-ruling
But according to the Spanish sports daily AS, Honda is still not happy with the arguable fairness of its development scope under the FIA's new ruling.
"They are asking for a further clarification," the newspaper claims. "They want to be like everyone else, with 32 tokens for development."
but giving them the full 32 tokens sounds a step too far
Hence the suggestion I saw somewhere that Honda should focus on performance at the expense of reliability as they can fix the latter more freely...pob wrote:Everyone can still upgrade for reliability or cost reasons as under the v8 freeze, tokens are only for performance upgrades.
Yea - that's what I was kind of getting at but for Renault & Ferrari.adrianjordan wrote:Hence the suggestion I saw somewhere that Honda should focus on performance at the expense of reliability as they can fix the latter more freely...pob wrote:Everyone can still upgrade for reliability or cost reasons as under the v8 freeze, tokens are only for performance upgrades.
But no one ever does?turbof1 wrote:And of course, this allows that same competition to lodge a complaint against the proposed changes.
Indeed if it actually cost performance, as in the scenario keiko proposed, then it would presumably be even less likely to get blocked...turbof1 wrote:There have been only a few known situations when an engine was altered for reliability. None so far has been withheld for that. Of course there has to be a reason to lodge a complaint. Like adding obvious performance enhancements. If there's a clear fault at work that makes the engine break down, and the proposed solution does not add performance, there's little to protest against.
