How Honda Learned From Their Exploding Engines
We all know that Honda makes a great car, and an even better engine. But when they first got started, the engineers were embarrassed to even show up at the races (since their engines had a bad habit of exploding).
In this video, you’ll get to hear from the technicians who were part of redesigning the Honda engine into the dominating engine providers for all Indy Racing teams.
Quotes Not To Miss
- “All the demands from Soichiro Honda were to take risks and fail. The idea is that you can fail 100 times as long as you succeed once.”
- “So much of racing is failure.”
- “When you fail its not necessarily looked at as a bad thing. As long as you learn something from it and make something positive out of it.”
- “We can only make fantastic advances in technology through many failures.”
What To Walk Away With
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