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Honda targets top three with Toro Rosso in 2018

Honda says it never considered leaving Formula 1 as its relationship with McLaren unravelled, and has set a bold top-three target with new partner Toro Rosso. A string of announcements in Singapore on Friday confirmed that McLaren was dropping Honda early to switch to customer Renault power, in a deal that involved Toro Rosso moving in the other direction.  Honda's chief officer of brand and communications operations Katsuhide Moriyami said there was intense soul-searching at board level in recent months but that staying in F1 was always a priority. "For Honda, F1 started with the dream of our founder, Soichiro Honda, and we have a history of more than 50 years of F1," said...
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