#F1 Racing- Honda now at its pre-season performance target

Honda has to be proud of the progress it has made with its power unit during 2017 but should not have started so far behind its rivals, according to program chief Yusuke Hasegawa.

While McLaren was expecting a big step forward in performance from Honda during the off-season, the new power unit proved to be both unreliable and uncompetitive when pre-season testing got underway at the end of February. Since then, a number of upgrades has allowed McLaren to regularly challenge for a place in Q3 and it scored points with both cars in Hungary (pictured).

While the Hungaroring places far less emphasis on power unit performance, a strong showing in Silverstone highlighted Honda’s progress, but Hasegawa told RACER it should have been at the current level from the start of the season…

 

Source: F1 Racing News – Honda now at its pre-season performance target