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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,'...
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