Same with Vettel/Webber, Button/Rubens, Alonso/Hamilton. Friends until a championship is at stake.
Thing is, could anyone actually tell the difference if Kimi wasn't happy... he'd speak less?
Seriously though he's mentioned a better atmosphere, Arrivabene is talking about no team orders. You can be no.1 in a team and in contract but not get team orders. Getting things like newest wing first, test new parts and decide if you like them, maybe getting things as simple as preference on choice of media commitments(and with so many being cringe worthy piles of crap... being able to avoid some would be a pretty sweet deal).
There is constant talk about Alonso being a bit of a **** to work with, demanding and like everyone should be there for him rather than being part of the team. Kimi however signed up there knowing he'd be a no.2 to Alonso. I'm a little disappointed in that, it kind of feels like he went there for the money rather than believing he had a shot at beating Alonso... but I think that means he's likely happy to be a no.2 to Vettel anyway.
Finally some pics of the Honda engine from the weekend, really only two options being that there is no radial compressor at the front of the engine for certain. There is a rectangular box there which could be a axial compressor but for the pressure limit and single stage limit in the rules would be a very weird choice(heavier, more complex, less reliable) with no real advantages unless they had to have something rectangular.
Reality is it looks more like a oil tank or something, meaning while it may be a split turbo, the compressor is very likely to be in the V as Ferrari's was last year. Seems to have all the earmarks of last years Ferrari, under spec'd mgu-h, compressor in the v, issues getting sustained power, ers issues. Just compounded by over the top packaging and constant reliability problems. Ferrari fixed that by redesigning turbo, compressor and mgu-h entirely, bigger, moved position, changed the set up. Mclaren are trying to change the mgu-h entirely.
