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Honda sheds light on 2015 tensions with McLaren
Honda's Formula One Chief, Yasuhisha Arai has revealed some of the reasons why tensions arose with McLaren, once it was obvious that the performance of the Honda engine was below expectations. Honda's return to Formula One was a difficult one, even though the company anticipated trouble with the hightech hybrid motors that power Formula One cars since 2014 saw a major rewrite of the regulations. Arai admitted to the Nikkei Asian Review that the team lacked match rythm, having stepped into Formula One with 'about half' of its workforce completely new to Formula One. “The talks (with McLaren) are neither cozy nor confrontational,” he said. “Sometime around last summer, they asked if we...
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