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Honda said to have found 220 horse-power during off season

Honda has reportedly aced the winter off-season following the Japanese carmaker's woeful return to Formula 1 last year with McLaren. That is the claim of Manuel Franco, the F1 correspondent for the Spanish sports daily AS, writes that the Honda power unit for 2016 is an incredible 223 horsepower stronger than the one with which Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button toiled with miserably last season. He said the feat has been achieved by closing the 70 horse power gap to the leading internal combustion engines of 2015, plus solving the 163hp deficit caused by Honda's troublesome energy recovery systems. 'Sakura, the Honda factory in Japan, has worked 24 hour shifts without Christmas...
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