This Statement can only be bad for MotoGP

Zip said:
Honda must be really strugling =/
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I don't get why everyone is so suprised that Honda are doing this sort of thing, though.

Take GP racing. Every time they've started to do badly, they've walked away. They walked in '68 after killing Jo Schlesser with that awful RA302 They walked after '92 when it was clear that the Renault V10 was much better than their own offering. And they're walking now after a couple of miserable seasons spent pointlessly tooling around at the back of the grid.

The credit crunch just gives them a much better excuse than "we don't want to play any more if we can't win".
 
JRS said:
I don't get why everyone is so suprised that Honda are doing this sort of thing, though.

Take GP racing. Every time they've started to do badly, they've walked away. They walked in '68 after killing Jo Schlesser with that awful RA302 ".
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The magnesium-bodied Honda
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WTF WERE THEY THINKING!:eek::confused::(
 
I don't really see the problem. Given just how screwed economies are at the moment, we can afford, if you pardon the pun, to do without a few luxury sports. What an utterly arrogant thing it is to be spending millions and millions on a sport when, given the global financial climate you might soon struggle to be able to afford to pay your hard working employees.

Quite frankly, if it weren't for the employment they bring to local communities, the more football teams that go to the wall and force wages down in that sport the better too.
 
Zip said:
WTF WERE THEY THINKING!:eek::confused::(
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That it was a good way to make a lightweight body. Of course, if they'd made the handling a bit less....how best to put it.....suicidally dangerous then it would have been fine. Unfortunately, they blessed the car with the manners of a particularly vexed bear - John Surtees refused to drive it, Jo Schlesser didn't. One of those men is still alive.
 
james.miller said:
doesnt matter how it handled. if the Engine had gone pop it would stil have gone up in flames
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Schlesser's accident was made even worse by the fact that it happened early in the race - so his fuel tank was nigh-on full. Magnesium panels + magnesium wheels + metric ****-tonne of race fuel.....he was never likely to walk away from it.
 
JRS said:
Schlesser's accident was made even worse by the fact that it happened early in the race - so his fuel tank was nigh-on full. Magnesium panels + magnesium wheels + metric ****-tonne of race fuel.....he was never likely to walk away from it.
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They magnesium would ahve gone up like fireworks:(
 
It's the correct thing to do. You cannot spend 200 million on formula one and however many millions Moto costs and then cut back on staff and the number of days in the working week when you are wasting money.

Especially when it won't make much difference to sales anyway.
 
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