Three tiers, eh?

[Joonyah]

I'm seeing today there a 1-2-3 8-9-10 for Honda.

They're back.

[skypigeon]

If you can call that a race.

[Joonyah]

If you can call that a race.

There was a start, there was a finish, and there were laps completed in between.

It was a race as much as Richmond 2009 was a race.

[doitagain]

Not in every thread, please. This one's about Honda's performance. Ther's already a BI thread or two going

Thanks!

[BrakeEarly]

Rahal was surprisingly fast for using a first spec homologated engine. His first engine was replaced before the engine pool was filled with the new spec engines. He has quite a few more miles before he becomes eligible for a replacement sans penalty.

Honda is "back"? Of course they are... They received a performance increase from a new turb via a gift ruling and then injected a new engine into competition and saw a performance increase on both.

Awful shrude on their part. Good for fans of Honda teams and drivers. Bad for fans of Chevy drivers and teams. Certainly has other potential negatives as well that time will reveal.

[sifaka]

I'm seeing today there a 1-2-3 8-9-10 for Honda.

They're back.

I agree they are back, but the top 10 finishing order looked like a random selection among two engines. Honda's actual order in the finish was:
1
2
6
9
10

Which means Chevy was
3
4
5
7
8

or put another way: HHCCCHCCHH


Where I come from there's no difference in the distribution of these finishing positions by engine type. Smells a lot like parity to me.

[BrakeEarly]

The more setup plays into it... the less the engine matters. Horsepower at the wheel doesn't mean as much when you can't apply all of it to the track without losing the back end or sliding into the wall.

Texas was a perfect solution to mitigate the poor decision making with the Turbos earlier this season.