Formula 1’s Aston Martin team principal Adrian Newey says his group was blindsided by the fact its then-incoming works power unit partner Honda had only retained about 30% of its original world championship-winning staff going into the project.
Sounds like things at Honda have been a mess for longer than anyone but the heads of Aston Martin knew of.
It seems like the assumption was that the experienced people at Honda’s Japan base in Sakura who had developed the F1 engine for Red Bull, would join Honda’s new engine program for Aston Martin. And AM never bothered to check that assumption. When in reality these people had been assigned to completely different Honda projects and were not working on the engine at all
It seems like the assumption was that the experienced people at Honda’s Japan base in Sakura who had developed the F1 engine for Red Bull, would join Honda’s new engine program for Aston Martin. And AM never bothered to check that assumption. When in reality these people had been assigned to completely different Honda projects and were not working on the engine at all