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Vasseur: Honda contract lasted an hour under my watch
Sauber team chief Frederic Vasseur revealed that he was only one hour into his new job, at the Swiss outfit's headquarters in Hinwill, when he met with Honda and told them that the engine supply deal signed by the team's old guard was not going to happen. Vasseur said in an interview, 'I joined on July 17 at 9am and the meeting [with Honda] was at 10am. For me it was important. It is never easy to change the engine supplier first, but Honda was not in a very good shape.' 'Plus, and probably most important for me, was that we were linked to McLaren for the gearbox with absolutely no internal resources to do our own one.' 'I was convinced, as I had some contacts at McLaren, that they would...
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