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Honda worried by performance gap with rivals - really?

©WRI2 Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa admits to be troubled by the manufacturer's gap with its rivals on a relative performance level. The notion seems hardly surprising given the dismal pre-season testing performance delivered by McLaren's partner. Chronic reliability issues associated with Honda's new power unit dogged the Woking-based outfit's two-week development programme in Barcelona, limiting its mileage and generating huge frustrations within the team, from its management to its drivers. Curiously, Hasegawa appears to be more worried about the engine power gap with its rivals rather than by its reliability weakness. "Of course we knew the performance level but we didn't know...
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