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Tanabe: 'That's one of our key positives'

Honda wants to leave Formula 1 with one last hurrah after 2021. The big goal of the Japanese is to become world champion with Red Bull Racing. The improved reliability is a big boost for this, according to technical director Toyoharu Tanabe. Improvement in reliability Max Verstappen had to fail a number of times in 2020 due to motor problems, but Honda was the only one of the engine suppliers that did not receive any penalty points. While a few years ago at McLaren engine after engine could be thrown away because of poor reliability. "One of our key positives was that we learned from previous seasons, improving our reliability so that we used just the three PUs allowed per driver,...
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