BAR to run at Bonneville?

[Malcolm UK]

The British motorsport weekly magazines are praising Honda - BAR for their speeds at Mojave and still they are the team are saying the car will run on the salt in '06.  Cannot understand how this team will gain from running an '05 spec car for a "record" that does not represent the current rules?

Effort does gain a lot of 'ink'..... but at what cost?

[JackD]

"Don't date out of your species."

[Wayne Brown]

By the time the salt is in good condition for them to run on it will already be half way througt there season. That does not help them on that years car development. Who knows if the 2006 spec. engine makes the ammount of power that they need??  

[Tom Shannon]

http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s169/st85218.htm

Hey,they even got a "certificate".

[JackD]

I'll bet that showed the Mustang Ranch a thing or two about pubic recognition.

[Utahfab]

This years rules?  Next years rules?  It has nothing to do with development and nearly nothing to do with F1.  It?s just marketing.  Their sponsors pay for eyes and this gets them more.

[fastesthonda_jim]

interesting race, but it has cool audio of the Honda car

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1914692207624681889

[Rex Schimmer]

Tom Shannon, thanks for the link to the Bar pictures! They took the scoop shovel wing off, removed the "barge" boards, flattened the front wing and raised the ride height and I'll bet the tires are at 15 bar plus! I suppose with around 900 HPs they should go over 250! Someone needs to contact Honda and see if any of these "old" engines could be loaned out for other land speed attempts. With the future demise of the Honda engine in IRL racing they should have a real pile of race iron laying around growing rust, well OK aluminum and mag don't rust but you know what I mean.

Rex

[JackD]

When money is no object, speed is not either, it is publicity.
They spent the most for the least of anybody lately and might have ruined it for other real efforts.
That is the thing that would prevent the surplus engines from being available to avoid the bad publicity that would surely follow a comparison.
It is kinda like the Choco-tec stuff that is getting so much attention.
That kind of HP is available and no big secret, but unless the tires improve,it will remain unavailable for real application.

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