foreverhokie

just toggle the airplane mode on/off to reset the cell signal.

or at least encourage her to use the Auto Park feature. It's a wheel and patience saver :-)

It was first in the sister Toro Rosso car, so not sure the reliability and evolution could truly be measured, as it would under the main RB team. When Red Bull moved from Renault to Honda the next year, they saw an immediate team improvement. Stong and reliable engines with a good car around it. Regarding Honda leaving F1, the dreaded Covid year had a lot to do with putting extreme strain on their overall resources, and I truly think everyone in industry thought street cars were more rapidly going to EVs more so than hybrids. Turns out, many don't want an EV, they just want a Tesla! Back to F1, Red Bull desperately did not want to go back to Renault and they were not ready to produce their own powertrain, so they begged Honda to sell them their engine with technical support. To your point, I don't think Honda regretted at all staying in F1, but I do not think it was due to them suddenly having success. They had a good engine, just needed the right partner to package it correctly. This is going to be a rough year for AM/Honda. I hope some improvement will happen during the first third/half of the season to make them respectable at the end. The PR damage up front is going to be the worst, especially when the Japanese culture at Honda is not going to allow them to adequately point fingers at all the other AM shortcomings. I know I am biased towards Honda, I just hate to see them get dragged through the mud again in F1, when much of the failures are out of their control.

the Mclaren disaster from a decade ago. Forcing Honda into a poor engine architecture didn't work then and it's not going to work now. With the aggressive chassis/aero, he wants a shortened ICE and made them put the battery into split layers. They were already behind the eight ball based on timing...other teams were months ahead and as we saw during preseason testing, no other team had a body design that was a compact as AM. A late start and being put into a tight box for design, is generally not going to end well. Not that Honda doesn't have some flaws that need to be worked out on their end, but they know how to build an engine. I'm starting to think that Newey is reaching the end of his career. No doubt he is a legend of F1, but even Red Bull suffered early last year with the status of his design. He left Red Bull and suddenly their updates came to life and almost pushed Max to the Driver's Championship. Definitely not a good look for AM, given their endless resources. Just hope Stroll is not too proud to make Newey compromise, as this can't be only a Honda problem.

in being a works team again. Having majority ownership wouldn't have a lot of benefits if they weren't looking to control the total car development. I know that's exactly what Porsche wanted, even though they likely would have maintained the existing design, yet rebrand everything to Porsche. I think the future of RBR is going to be interesting, as they truly are developing the future car, yet letting Ford have brand recognition. I just don't see Ford actually spending the money and doing the work to design & build their own engine. I think they are going to see a decline as a team with Adrian Newey leaving as well to join AMR. Him leaving explains some of the decline in RBR from the first ~10 races to the latter races in 2024.

at least not like it did a few years previously with Mclaren. True, that they had not won a drivers or constructors championship yet, but the decision to pull out was due to corporate decisions and not the engine performance. Looking back, it was interesting that they didn't tell RBR their intent to stay such that RBR could potentially remain a partner. I suppose Honda knew that RBR wanted to "produce" their own powertrains, but I believe that was really only done by RBR when they no longer had a viable engine partner. The idea of a partnership with Porsche was announced, but they wanted majority stake in RBR, which was never going to happen.

in 2015. That was mostly due to poor engine architecture because of Mclaren's resistance to alter their chassis design. They forced them into a configuration that Honda knew would be a problem, but everyone had to keep moving forward and give PR friendly interviews. Every time Alonso would complain about having a F2 engine, Honda had to take it on the chin and not roll Mclaren under the bus. Though they never really set the record straight publically, they were not as quiet about the failures of the Mclaren partnership after they joined RBR and had a winning combo. Honda had already joined Red Bull Racing and was successful before they announced they were leaving F1 again, and that was primarily due to Honda executives not being sure that F1 technology was were they needed to go as an overall auto manufacturer. After a re-think and potential tie-in with Aston Martin, they decided to remain in the sport and I believe AMR was willing to work around the existing/current engine architecture, rather than make Honda do a complete redesign.

until you are finished using it. They and their foundations are designed for significant wind, but obviously there are failures. I wanted to clarify the process, as I've seen it reported incorrectly throughout social media.

The time consuming part is arranging for the support crane(s) and getting the proper permits for road closures to stage those support cranes and the trucks/trailers. Some jurisdictions are quicker than others, but this is the part that takes planning & time, not the actual removal of the crane.