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Toyoji Tanabe, Honda F1 Technical Director, attends Friday’s press conference for the Russian F1 GP. The root cause of the PU problem that hit Red Bull Honda’s Max Felstappen in the second race in a row in Italy has been identified, and he said he is taking steps to prevent it from happening again.
Max Felstappen was retiring in both races due to PU’s loss of power. The recall of 3 of the 9 races was related to the Honda F1 PU, and there was an urgent need to resolve the reliability issue.
Honda F1’s Toyoji Tanabe says he has conducted an analysis after the Tuscany F1 GP to identify the root cause of the problem and take action.
“I won’t go into too much detail, but it was a very complex subject and there were many associated parameters,” Toyoji Tanabe commented.
“We analyzed the data after the race and tried to understand what happened, especially right after the race. We identified the root cause of the problem and took steps to resolve the problem in this race.” It has been applied. It should never happen again. “
The PU problem did not occur on the Alpha Tauri machine.
“No. It was a very strange situation. It was the first time since I started in F1,” said Toyoji Tanabe.
Also, in qualifying for the Belgian F1 GP, there was an “off display” in Red Bull Honda’s Max Felstappen. A similar problem has occurred at the F1 Tuscany GP with the Alpha Tauri Honda F1 Pierre Guthrie.
After the Italian F1 GP, the so-called qualifying mode was abolished, and it was mandatory to use a single ICE mode in qualifying and the final. Therefore, the allocation of MGU-H deployments becomes important in the qualification.
In that regard, Toyoji Tanabe explains: “It was caused by a slightly different application and it maximized the power consumption of the lap.”
“That is, if there is energy left after the finish line, we will lose performance, so we are maximizing energy use. The conditions for the lap were slightly different, but it happens on both machines.” I did it. “
From the F1 Russian GP, new ICEs, turbochargers, MGU-H and MGU-K will be presented to Red Bull Honda’s Max Felstappen, Alpha Tauri Honda’s Pierre Guthrie and Daniel Kubiat. This is in line with the annual PU usage plan, and Honda F1 says it is not related to issues at Mugero.
In Friday’s free race at the F1 Russian GP, he did 133 laps in which four machines ran. We are collecting a lot of data needed for Race Week.
Category: F1 / Honda F1 / Red Bull / Russian F1 GP / Alpha Tauri
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