Caporegime
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It's two a piece for each car which is frankly pretty standard for most teams. Most will run a older engine for friday if they have an old one then switch to the one they want to use for the race for FP3. So Honda are installing a fresh one for the start of the weekend and will probably do the same for FP3, effectively no extra work.
They could have done this all year to avoid penalties at more races though it works better if you can stock pile engines that last more than 2-3 sessions. Hardly worth taking an extra penalty if that engine you take only lasts through FP3 and you need a new one for the race anyway as you'd take another penalty.
I'm interested to see where they are reliability. Using the Hungary engine which they say is 'fixed', as yet that Canada spec engine has lasted a single non power heavy race in Hungary. Add power and add heat and more potential problems causing unreliability so lets see if they can even last this weekend. If they can do 2-3 races on this one engine I'll be impressed, not in general just with their improvement. 3 is the bare minimum, that would still give you 3-4 penalties over the year, 4 is the lowest you want to be and could get away with one penalty in a season, 5 is the target.
I hope they've made a step forward as we need more teams not necessarily fighting Mercedes but we need more cars competing with each other. Regardless of if they catch up to Merc, Ferrari, RBR, Williams or Lotus it just means one team actually competing with another so more action on track. We need them to move forward.
They could have done this all year to avoid penalties at more races though it works better if you can stock pile engines that last more than 2-3 sessions. Hardly worth taking an extra penalty if that engine you take only lasts through FP3 and you need a new one for the race anyway as you'd take another penalty.
I'm interested to see where they are reliability. Using the Hungary engine which they say is 'fixed', as yet that Canada spec engine has lasted a single non power heavy race in Hungary. Add power and add heat and more potential problems causing unreliability so lets see if they can even last this weekend. If they can do 2-3 races on this one engine I'll be impressed, not in general just with their improvement. 3 is the bare minimum, that would still give you 3-4 penalties over the year, 4 is the lowest you want to be and could get away with one penalty in a season, 5 is the target.
I hope they've made a step forward as we need more teams not necessarily fighting Mercedes but we need more cars competing with each other. Regardless of if they catch up to Merc, Ferrari, RBR, Williams or Lotus it just means one team actually competing with another so more action on track. We need them to move forward.
