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Originally posted by Valve Bounce
No Honda didn't prove a point and then pulled out of F1; says John Surtees:" The episode of that car and the accident brought Hondas Formula One programme to an end. The fact that (the RA302) didn't work meant there weren't the resources to go back to what (the V12) we were originally going to do."
Soichiro Honda lost face big time, and you must know Asians to understand what this means. Honda must go into F1 in the name of Honda, and they must beat Toyota. Not to do so would make life not worth living for Honda himself.
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I'll accept your facts on that era, I don't know that much about it prior to about the mid 80s. However I have one quibble with the Soichiro Honda end of things. If that is true, then why did Honda abandon their own team originally, basically citing financial reasons (as well as other more tragic ones). What has changed in the meantime that Honda is now willing to throw even more money at F1, then if they had just stayed in to begin with.