We are sure that few are banging their heads on the wall at Honda’s headquarters. Jenson Button of Brawn GP team (ex Honda F1 Racing Team) is the new World Champion. It was just before the beginning of the F1 season that Honda announced that the F1 Racing Team was available for sale due to major expenses and running costs. The team was sold and Ross Brawn took over with winning results from the first race. The wins came along one following the other. Great development and very ironic in the end. I bet that Honda’s executives wonder, if this was the worst decision ever made.
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on Oct 19th, 2009 at 2:58 am
I hate to say it: the Mercedes-Benz powerplant played a (huge) role in the ex-Honda package too.
That said, IF Honda had a change of winning the F1 championship it was this year.
on Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Japanese companies don’t work like other companies; I doubt anyone gave it a second thought.
They fell on their sword, which is what they were supposed to do. They did the honorable thing, and now it’s on to figuring out how to make a car dog-friendly.