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"After taking our drivers to visit several Honda facilities over the past three days, where they received a warm welcome, it's good to be on track for our home race," said Honda F1 Technical Director Toyoharu Tanabe.
"The latest version of our PU, which we first used on Friday in Sochi, has produced encouraging data today. It's a big improvement and validates the tuning work we carried out on this new PU since Russia. Unfortunately, Pierre lost some track time in FP2 with a fuel system issue, but at this point in the weekend, it's not too critical."
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Login to replyLotus4Ever
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Looks like McLaren was wrong in skipping Honda - but then again, the atmosphere at McLaren, no matter what engine supplier the use, is toxic.....
calle.itw
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They woulda never been able to utilize Honda in a good way even if the PU had been on par with Merc. They needed the current reformations Brown has set up.
RogerF1
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McLaren looked duff and it clearly isn’t the engine. Hope Honda reliability comes through with the performance at race pace. Ocon looked good, shame.
calle.itw
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As much as I love Honda (I do it dearly and erotically), it probably took two to that tango. The important thing is that one learned from its mistakes, while the other seemingly didnt, at least not until recently.