Originally posted by Andy:
....... I say BAR (team) finish about 6th overall in 2000. .......
Aim a bit higher Canadian!
Overall finish 3rd +/- 1 in 2000.
In next four years, Honda powered F1 cars -WILL- parade around the F1 circuits as they did in the past with F2(11 wins out of 12 races) and also F1(15 wins out of 16 races).
Here how it works.
Honda will select fine young engineers internally for the F1 program.
Probably late 20's to early 30's of ages who does -NOT- have any racing engine experience at all. This is very important point, fine engineers but -NO- racing engine experiences.
Those engineers are given four to five years to learn F1 engineering A_to_Z at F1 circuits.
After learning it in the highest racing environment possible in the world with fine F1 pilots for four years, five years at most, they WILL become experts.
(Of course Honda Tokyo has strong backup team there to support them to achieve it.)
Now, this is the most unique part of Honda thinking..... Once you become expert, then you will loose something very important that is what Honda is always looking for...
That is "creativity", or "creative thinking". Honda knows that human has limit. If you become an expert in one field, then your thinking pattern or ideas are somehow fixed and not as creative as someone who has never done it befor. Then F1 engin development process will slow down or come to stop there.
Honda doesn't punish failures they will analyze the situation and find out why it failed then they just simply don't repeat same mistake, Honda engineers are encouraged to try new things without fear of failure.
Those whom now has four to five years experience and became expert will be reassigned to different projects such as production car design and put their F1 engineering knowlidge into their production car designs, such as Civic.
P.S. Sorry so many miss spellings and grammar errors. Hope Mr. Spelling/Grammar Prod is not around.........
[This message has been edited by MN (edited 03-10-2000).]