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Sauber F1 Team Calls Off 2018 Honda Engine Deal For Reasons I Can't Quite Put My Finger On
Sauber F1 Team Calls Off 2018 Honda Engine Deal For Reasons I Can't Quite Put My Finger On-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:21

The Sauber Formula One team, which currently runs Ferrari engines and is only a mere three points ahead of in the standings, was . For reasons I cannot grasp, the series Thursday that Sauber called off the deal.

In the , the Sauber team currently has five points to McLaren-Honda’s two. The leading Mercedes team has 330 points, but points are just numbers and do not determine your value as members of society. Write that on your bathroom mirror, McLaren-Honda.

Anyway, Sauber team principal Frederic Vasseur said it was “very unfortunate that [the team had] to discontinue the planned collaboration with Honda.” He said he wishes Honda the best, but that the decision was made “for strategic reasons” with “the best intent for the future of the Sauber F1 Team in mind.”

Huh. I just cannot quite understand what Vasseur’s saying here, or what would lead him to believe that Honda is not a great or successful F1 engine supplier.

Maybe it was ?

Honda, the power unit supplier to blame for the McLaren Formula One team’s miserable lack of…

Nah. No. Definitely cannot be that.

Or ?

Formula One is testing in Bahrain this week, and surprise! McLaren had issues. Sauber, one of two…

Nope. Not seeing any problems there.

Oh! I got it. Maybe was the reason.

Some of you have become complacent in your dislike of McLaren’s unreliable Honda Formula One…

Eh, that’s probably not it, either.

What a mystery this is!

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