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Who cares what Honda thinks... all of a sudden now F1 needs to look at full ev. Madness when the other 3 are still in.
Honda has shown over decades of their fickleness. I’m out in out.
They went about this because they are not good enough. Cowards not willing to keep up the fight to topple Mercedes.
They are out because they lost over a billion dollars due to Corona and lack lustre car manufacturer. Zero interesting cars in the retail market place. They are just as complacent in their road cars and living off of former success.
They are out cause it’s their normal play book, get frustrated when they almost there but frankly never good enough.
Nothing new here... just Honda being Honda not unlike when they painted their car the earth colours.
No reason to even think F1 should go full EV. Go bigger on the ICE, throw that turbo in the garbage and decrease battery pack size to make cars smaller and lighter.
The problem isn't (just) that Honda is leaving. It's that nobody else is coming in and the current engines are super expensive and a major performance differentiator.
I agree that going full EV is a bad idea though. Formula E got there first. There's no reason to want F1 to be a copy of FE with more money and more star names on it. For now the cars would likely be slow, too.
A better idea is to take what we already have and make it cheaper, more equalised, with a smaller barrier to entry.
