It was also, according to then-editor Don Sherman, very boring, which led the C/D team to ... they worked with Honda to get the car and an extra 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine.

C/D operative (half inside the little Honda, head down behind the ... of this exercise was to breach the un­known. Mention twin engines to anyone and you'll conjure up images of droning airplanes ...

Honda's F1 journey has been a remarkable one, beginning with its first victory at the Mexican Grand Prix in 1965 to its golden era entry as an engine supplier for Lotus and McLaren in the 1980s.