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Given Friday's tumultuous statement by Honda CEO and president Takeo Fukui, the questions can now be asked: should Honda's Formula One operation have existed in the first place, or did the team effectively exist on a (high drag) wing and a prayer?
Given its roots in a barely disguised campaign to sell cigarettes for British American Tobacco, should the team even have existed in the first place? And, given the outfit's spectacular lack of success, could the withdrawal of the team from motorsport's top four-wheeled category be likened to euthanasia rather than a death blow?
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