Top six Worse Honda F1 race cars

With Honda returning to Formula 1 for the 2015 season, as an engine supplier with McLaren in 2015 with an all new Honda 1.6 litre Turbo V6s' power units. And during last weeks Abu Dhabi test after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Honda tested with McLaren during that test and only managed five laps altogether during the two days due to electrical problems with the new Honda V6 Engine. So this post will be Top six Worse Honda F1 race cars that have been in Formula 1.



Starting with number 6:

Number 6: 1992 McLaren MP4/7A
Story: McLaren MP4/7A was designed by Neil Oatley, it was the first McLaren F1 car that use a semi-automatic transmission gearbox in McLaren history. The McLaren MP4/7A used the 3.5 litre Honda V12 engine underneath. Despite the McLaren MP4/7A took five victories in 1992, three for Ayrton Senna and two for Gerhard Berger and only managing to score 99 points to give McLaren second place in the constructors championship in 1992. Although the McLaren MP4/12 was a race winning F1 car, the car itself was too slow and unreliable compare to Williams all dominating FW14B. But wasn't no where near the worst McLaren ever built.





Number 5: 1984 Williams FW09
Story: Williams FW09 was designed by Patrick Head and Neil Oatley, it was the first Williams F1 car that didn't had the 3 litre Cosworth DFV V8 engine underneath. Instead, the Williams FW09 had the all new 1.5 litre Honda turbo V6 engine underneath. Despite the Williams FW09 took Keke Rosberg to the Dallas Grand Prix win in 1984. However, the car was very unreliable that season and only managed to score 25.5 points to give Williams to fifth place in the constructors championship that season.





Number 4: 1988 Lotus 100T
Story: Lotus 100T was designed by Gérard Ducarouge and Martin Ogilvie, Lotus 100T had the Honda 1.5 litre V6 turbo engine underneath, but unlike it's predecessor the 100T wasn't fitted with electronic active suspension, because of less power from the Honda turbo in the 1988 due to Bar limited from the turbo from 4.0 in 1987 to 2.5 in 1988. Despite all this, Nelson Piquet took three third place finishes with the 100T in 1988, overall the Lotus 100T took Lotus to fourth place in the Constructors standings in 1988 with just 22 points. The Lotus 100T was a slow and unreliable car compared to the all dominating McLaren MP4/4 in 1988 which won fifteen out of sixteen races, despite both having the same engine for 1988. Overall, the Lotus 100T the worst Lotus ever built, not even close to the Worse Lotus F1 car ever.





Number 3: 2005 BAR 007
Story: BAR 007 was designed by Geoff Willis, The BAR 007 used the Honda 3 litre V10 engine underneath. Unlike the BAR006 which took to second place in the Constructor standings in 2004, the BAR007 took British American Racing to only sixth place in the Constructor standings, with 38 points in 2005, with Jenson Button only managing just two third place finishes as their best results.



Number 2: 2007 Honda RA107
Story: Honda RA107 was designed by Shuhei Nakamoto and Mariano Alperin-Bruvera, The Honda RA107 used the Honda 2.4 litre V8 engine underneath. And despite Honda won a Grand Prix the season before with the RA106, the Honda RA107 was no where near as its predicator as it was a very slow car. Best result was a wet fifth place finish with Jenson Button at the Chinese Grand Prix. Overall RA107 took Honda to eighth place in the Constructor standings, with just 6 points in 2007.



Number 1: 2008 Honda RA108
Story: Honda RA108 was designed by Shuhei Nakamoto, Jörg Zander and Loic Bigois, The Honda RA108 used the Honda 2.4 litre V8 engine underneath. And just like the 2007, the Honda RA108 was still a very slow car. Best result was a wet third place finish with Rubens Barrichello at the British Grand Prix. Overall RA108 took Honda to an even worse position then in 2007 with a ninth place in the Constructor standings, with just 14 points in 2008. After that season, Honda withdrew from Formula 1 until now of course.





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