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Christian Horner remains confident Honda is the right move for Red Bull.
The Red Bull boss said that at Silverstone recently, the team was reassured that deciding to split with Renault is right.
And he says that moving to full works Honda power for 2019 is not too big a risk for the top F1 team.
"The situation is roughly similar between the two engines," he told France's Auto Hebdo, "but there is more room for development potential.
"Renault had a very difficult weekend at Silverstone," Horner added. "Our deficit was blatant, both in attack and defence.
"There is a gap to be filled and we have great confidence in Honda, especially given what they have in the pipeline," he said.
"There is no guarantee, but the progress we have seen encourages us to believe that, little by little, we will get there."
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Login to replyMr.Useless
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Christian, prepare the speech just in case it doesn't work out. However, this guy doesn't need any preparation to put a spin on things. He is the master of passive aggressive.
For many years H sucked and suddenly they will turn out very competitive against Ferrari or Merc? Perhaps if they reverse engineer merc PU. Otherwise, the progress should be slow - verified by trial and error. If Honda had a clue they would have been improving steadily. Instead they are stuck.
Good luck Christian.
ajpennypacker
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Sounds like Ron Dennis in 2014...
calle.itw
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I must admit, the more Horner and co tries to ensure us, the less I trust them. I was never on the hype train for No Man's Sky, so Murray's words never affected me, but hype did hit me with Dennis in 2014. Now Horner dont sound quite as overpromising as Dennis, nowhere near as bad, and at least he has some decent measurements already, but even then it would be much better if they were just saying "we'll see".