Every car in this year's Indianapolis 500
was powered by a Honda engine. Also, it is believed that this was the first Indy race ever in which there wasn't one engine failure. Amazing. It kinda makes you wonder if Honda purposely engineered the engines more for reliability rather than power, knowing full well that regardless of how the engines were tuned, a Honda-powered racer would win...
A 100% Honda-powered field and 100% no engine failure rate sounds like a perfect win-win (marketing) scenario for Honda if you ask me.
mirth says:
08:52 AM, 06/ 5/06
Sound more like a sad commentary on the nature of racing these days....
rsholland says:
09:05 AM, 06/ 5/06
Yeah, I too wish there were more different engines involved.
ateixeira says:
09:27 AM, 06/ 5/06
I couldn't believe how easily Hornish Jr. pulled to pass on that last lap. Hard to believe the engines (his and Andretti Jr's) were related at all.
rsholland says:
09:49 AM, 06/ 5/06
One word: Drafting.