Honda Motor Co.’s withdrawal from Formula One racing in December to save money may give it an advantage over rivals: fresh blood from an elite cadre of engineers to improve its Civic compacts and Odyssey minivans.
The automaker reassigned the racing team’s 400 engineers to speed up development of new technologies to improve fuel efficiency and emission levels for mass-produced cars.
“F-1 was all about pursuing the best energy efficiency to achieve speed,†Kazuo Sakurahara, who led Honda’s team of F-1 engineers, said in  … Details
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