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| Honda celebrates the “double forty” at Goodwood |
| First World Championship For 1986, a new RA166E engine was introduced to meet the demands imposed by a further lowering of fuel tank capacity limit from 220 litres to 195 litres. The new Williams-Honda FW11 dominated the championship with Mansell and Piquet taking nine wins between them to secure the Constructors’ Championship for Williams-Honda with one round remaining. The Drivers’ Championship, however, eluded Honda when Mansell suffered a spectacular rear tyre blow-out in the final race. With the latest turbocharged engines now producing well in excess of 1000bhp (from just 1.5-litres), the sporting authorities sought to counter the ingenuity of F1 engine manufacturers by limiting boost pressure to 4 bar for the 1987 season. This again forced Honda’s technicians to seek new solutions... which they did successfully. With engines now being supplied to Lotus as well as Williams, Honda-powered cars took victory in 11 of the year’s 16 races. The high point came at Silverstone where the Honda-powered cars of Mansell, Piquet, Ayrton Senna and Satoru Nakajima completed a 1-2-3-4 clean-sweep. |
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| First Drivers’ Championship Piquet finally clinched the Drivers’ Championship at the penultimate round at Suzuka, the first Japanese Grand Prix in a decade. The Brazilian’s title was the first for a driver powered by a Honda engine and, at the same time, Honda had achieved its long-held ambition of victory in both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships. Restrictions on turbocharged engines were further tightened for the 1988 season with boost pressure cut from 4 to 2.5 bar and fuel tank capacity reduced from 195 to 150 litres. With a new 3.5-litre normally aspirated formula due for introduction in 1989, Honda set-up a separate project to concentrate on the creation of a new ‘atmo’ engine. However, for 1988, Honda’s engineers were determined to end the turbo era on a high note by competing with a new RA168E turbo engine designed to overcome the latest fuel-efficiency constraints. |
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