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Originally Posted by nKoan
I agree that its a very small gesture (and much smaller than Honda is trying to play off) but I wouldn't exactly call it bad. Still, I think a small gesture is still better than nothing.
Also, I'm not a huge believer in the usefulness of being carbon neutral, but F1 (and WRC) are already carbon neutral. Mosley also wants to move both sports to be more green, so while this may be an empty gesture now, its kind of the future of the sport.
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I'm not knocking the benefits of the program... I'm just pointing out the irony of using the most polluting enterprise (motorsports is a ton of wasted resources, for what's basically entertainment purposes) as a platform for spouting about environmental awareness.
Like the article says, the ploy screams of "well we don't have a title sponsor, what do we do?", not "let's save the earf!" It's not like the Honda F1 car is electric, or running cats, or doing anything to save the earth aside from acting as a moving awareness billboard. If Honda really wanted to make a difference, their F1 program is not the starting point... their line of cars is the starting point (not to say they don't make a difference, as Honda sells the most fuel efficient line of cars in the world).
Bottom line: if you're going to use F1 as an environmental platform, you better be demonstrably more green in your race program... especially with your car. And with competition so tight in F1, I don't see Honda putting catalytic converters on the RA107.