{"id":19659,"date":"2011-04-13T17:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=19659"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:39:08","slug":"the-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/the-impossible-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible Dream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honda\u2019s F1 history dates back to the early sixties when the company looked to translate its motorcycling success onto four wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Honda tried to strike a deal with Lotus and Colin Chapman, which had won the world championship with Jim Clark in 1963 but when Chapman decided against it, the Japanese pressed ahead with their own car and engine. The Honda RA271E, with a load-bearing transversely-mounted V12, made its debut at Nurburgring in 1964 with young American Ronnie Bucknum driving.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19660\" title=\"Honda's RA 272 at Spa, 1965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Honda_RA_272_Spa_19651-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Starting a trend that would continue, F1 Hondas were prodigiously powerful if sometimes heavy. The RA272 gave around 230bhp, estimated to be 10% more than its rivals, and allowed ex-Ferrari driver Richie Ginther to win the company\u2019s 11th race, the 1965 Mexican GP, the last race for the 1.5-litre F1 category.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2TOQ52jaOQ4?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new 3-litre V12-engined car ran second on its debut in \u201966 and the following year Honda elected to run a single car for John Surtees &#8212; the only man to win world championships on two wheels and four \u2013 who had fallen out with Ferrari. Lola\u2019s Eric Broadley designed the RA301 chassis, dubbed the Hondola, which first raced in the \u201967 Italian GP at Monza. Surtees battled with Jim Clark and Jack Brabham and when one ran out of fuel and the other ran wide, the car won its first GP having led the one and only lap it would ever lead!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EZpmHeWLCk?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1968 there was pressure to run an air-cooled V12 to promote air-cooled road cars and the RA302, using lightweight magnesium parts, was built. On testing it, Surtees declared it dangerous and refused to race it. Honda France brought in Jo Schlesser to drive it in the French GP after Johnny Servoz-Gavin turned it down. The unfortunate Schlesser died in a horrible fireball accident when he crashed on the second lap of the last F1 race to be run at Rouen. Surtees finished second in the RA301. Surtees again refused to race the 302 at Monza and shortly afterwards Honda announced a \u2018temporary withdrawal\u2019 from F1.<\/p>\n<p>That lasted until 1983, when Honda returned as an engine supplier with the new Spirit team, which graduated from F2 amid F1\u2019s turbo era. The RA163E engine showed enough promise for Williams to do a deal to run Hondas the following year. Keke Rosberg found on\/off turbo power delivery and a flexing chassis a tricky combination, but took the Williams-Honda to victory in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zt3HxGbTE4?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of 1985, Rosberg and Nigel Mansell won the last three grands prix in Williams-Hondas. The team was dominant in \u201986 as Mansell and Nelson Piquet won nine races and the constructors championship but lost out in the drivers championship to Alain Prost when Mansell suffered a spectacular tyre blow-out 18 laps from the end of the season finale in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The team won 11 of 16 races in \u201987, with Piquet claiming his third drivers\u2019 title. Honda, however, switched allegiance to McLaren in \u201988 as the RA168 engine gave Ayrton Senna his first world title in a year that saw the Brazilian and team mate Prost win 15 of 16 races for McLaren-Honda.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been a clean sweep had not Senna tripped over a backmarking Williams-Judd a handful if laps before the end of the Italian GP. In a great irony, the Williams was driven by Jo Schlesser\u2019s nephew Jean Louis who, standing in for Mansell, who had chicken pox, was making his first F1 start on the eve of his 40th birthday\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In an era of continuing McLaren domination Prost (89) and Senna (90) took world titles with V10 Honda power, then Senna repeated the success and took his third and final crown in \u201991 with the V12 Honda RA121E-engined McLaren MP4-6. At the end of \u201992, however, with the active suspension Williams-Renault now dominant, Honda withdrew once again.<\/p>\n<p>They were due to return with a chassis being tested by Jos Verstappen and developed by Harvey Postlethwaite in \u201999 but the project was stillborn and Postlethwaite died shortly afterwards from a heart attack at a Barcelona test.<\/p>\n<p>Again as engine suppliers only, Honda returned with British American Racing and Jordan, eventually buying out BAR in 04\/5 and returning solely as the Honda Racing F1 Team in \u201906. Jenson Button gave them a first win in nearly 40 years with the RA806 in a mixed-condition Hungarian GP, but the going was tough.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19716\" title=\"In 2006 Jenson Button drive to Honda's GP victory in 40 years, his first.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jenson-button-honda-f1-italy-2007-1600x1200-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It got tougher still in 07-8 with no sign of a competitive car. Ross Brawn had been recruited, however, and early in a hopeless 08 season, the decision was taken to concentrate on next year\u2019s car. During that time a Japanese aerodynamicist came up with the double diffuser that was key to the \u201909 season. Suddenly though, in a shock announcement in December 08, with the worldwide recession taking hold, Honda pulled the plug. Button went on to win six of the first seven \u201809 races en route to the championship. Honda reputedly injected over \u00a390m running budget to avoid having to close down the Brackley factory. The car though, ran as a Brawn and carried a Mercedes engine. If only they\u2019d known\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Honda withdrew from F1 in 2009 it was a familiar tragedy. 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