News Details

Honda ‘a bit scared' after McLaren's bleak winter

Honda chief Yusuke Hasegawa has said he is worried McLaren will be left behind this season due to other teams making big gains with their power units. McLaren finished rock-bottom of the standings in terms of distance covered at the Circuit de Catalunya, racing through at least seven different power units and suffering four breakdowns in the final two days of testing. Yet Hasegawa ultimately believes it is the improvements made by other teams that has seen McLaren struggle so much and not primarily because of Honda's reliability. Asked whether he envisaged McLaren having such a disastrous winter, Hasegawa said that all the issues faced had come as a bit of a surprise. 'Of course not,'...
Full Story »
8y ago from PlanetF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

McLaren forced into yet another engine change during...

McLaren and engine partner Honda have been forced to change their power...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Hasegawa: What has happened was not seen on the dyno

McLaren powered Honda grabbed big headlines during the eight days of...
8y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Alonso: Bad year will not force me out of F1

Fernando Alonso insists that a poor season with McLaren-Honda in 2017 will...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Alonso: Honda has no reliability, no power

– McLaren driver Fernando Alonso has expressed his frustration over...
8y ago from GPUpdate.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Yamaha admits 2026 MotoGP performance will decide...

Yamaha knows it must deliver a more competitive 2026 MotoGP bike to...

Trackhouse Aprilia launches two liveries ahead of 2026...

Trackhouse Aprilia satellite team has launched its two new liveries in...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Will Power sees ‘all the ingredients’ for a...

Will Power is approaching the beginning of his new IndyCar chapter, with...

Ed Carpenter to contest 23rd Indianapolis 500

Owner of the Ed Carpenter Racing IndyCar team Ed Carpenter will race in...

Pato O’Ward joined by F2 champion in McLaren F1...

McLaren has announced its driver development program lineup for 2026,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Worrying update surely means Arsenal need to break the...

Arsenal reportedly have some concerns about Kai Havertz's long-term...
48m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Let's wait and see on Kai's knee

Morning all, happy Friday to you. Let's start with some reporting around...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

PL Predictions: Big upset brewing? Why Wolves can beat...

Our football betting expert Jones Knows provides his insight across the...
10h ago from SkySports.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.