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Hasegawa: We thought it would be easy
Honda F1 chief Yusuke Hasegawa has admitted that his engineering team underestimated the task of building a competitive Formula 1 power unit and as early as December last they suspected that they had a huge problem on their hands. Speaking to Autosport, Hasegawa said, 'I'm hugely disappointed. Of course we noticed most of the failures came from our PU. It's fair to say not everything came from our PU. [But] from the performance point of view, the biggest weakness is our PU. We are very disappointed.' 'As a matter of fact we were thinking too easy, [but] it was too difficult to achieve the new technology. We had some laboratory level experiments. We were thinking too easy, so that was my...
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