Originally Posted by thare,Nov 15 2007, 01:47 PM

Hi all,

New to this so forgive me - was put onto it my a friend of mine Marco.
Just been reading through some of the stuff and a few points need clarification,

To the guy who suggested that there is an engineer rotation system in place - where do you get your info from. When Honda first came in they used to rotate the engine engineers on a 6 month basis, their reason being that many of the F1 staff weren't around last time Honda was in......however this stopped in 2003 due the exact fact you mentioned - lack of cohension. We would take a guy and train him up to become more "Western" and get him used to our way of thinking and then he'd be off back to Japan and we'd have to start all over again. As for the engineers themselves, well the core of the team has been together since 2002 and the same guys travel to every event week in week out. So i'm afraid you're way off the mark with that one. As for it not being set-up well, as we like to say "you can only piss with the cock you've got"

RB - put out to pasture? I dont think so. Believe me he is more gutted than anyone (JB included) that this year has been a dog and he has brought so much to the party from his time at Ferrari. Put yourself in his shoes - why should you kill yourself for P15 when you've got a family watching from the garage. But trust me if/when the car comes good he will be there or there abouts and he will give JB a run for his money. He could also teach him a thing or two about technical feedback - the guy is a computer and can re-run an entire GP from memory corner by corner.

Well i'm sure there are plenty out there who will have their responses to this. But let me tell you, this is not an opinion, THIS IS THE WAY IT IS.