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Newest F1 team to revive Arrows?
Reuters is
reporting that the new Super Aguri F1 team may run Honda-powered Arrows for the 2006 season. Strangely enough, the
team had already made separate arrangements to use the old Arrows team factory as its base.
The team had hoped to use last-years BAR-Honda chassis, but current F1 rules stipulate that each team must create its
own unique cars.
Enter ex-Minardi owner Paul Stoddart, who bought up the entire Arrows operation from Tom Walkinshaw when the team went
under in 2002, including the designs and intellectual property rights to the Arrows cars. He is now looking to sell the
package to Super Aguri, who would have to modify the cars to carry the Honda V-10 instead of the original Cosworth
V-10.
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Evan 10:50PM (12/18/2005)
I think You mean v-8, as the 2006 rules stipulate. It would be foolish of a BAR owned team to run an old v-10 with a limiter
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330R 10:50PM (12/18/2005)
Actually, Honda Racing Development's Yasuhiro Wada was quoted just the other day as saying, "Currently it's technically true that a V10 running with the proposed restrictor will be more powerful than one of the new V8s".
Although he went on to say, "However, we don't want to be forced back to a V10 as the principal of the new regulations is for a V8 formula. Every engine manufacturer agrees the proposed restrictor size isn't correct and we believe the FIA will apply a fairer equivalent."
So Honda still sees an advantage in the restricted 3.0L V10 over the 2.4L V8 - likely in low-end torque, coming out of corners. They'll most likely show up at Malaysia with the V8s, but I bet they'll continue development of the V10 over the winter just in case Scuderia Toro Rosso starts to run away from the field (yeah right, lol).
As for the story and the Arrows chassis, I see Honda and Super Aguri doing something very creative with the intellectual property rights to the chassis that will end up making the cars much closer to B.A.R 007s than Arrows.
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Stuart Waterman 10:50PM (12/18/2005)
Evan, Nope, I meant V10. I suspect that it would be a huge amount of work to adapt a V10 chassis to use a V8 in anything but a test mule role. The 06 rules allow for a restricted V10, as 330R points out, and Squadra (now Scuderia) Torro Rosso will be doing just that.
On the Arrows topic, it seems that the Arrows I.P. package would include the design for the A24, which never raced, but was rumored to be a major advance on the A23.
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