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Honda thought 2017 engine would be ‘too easy'
Honda Formula 1 chief Yusuke Hasegawa has conceded that the manufacturer thought developing McLaren's 2017 engine would be 'too easy'. McLaren have been plagued with reliability issues and are bracing themselves for another poor showing at the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend. And it now appears that a lot of the blame can be proportioned to a huge amount of complacency shown by engine suppliers Honda, following Hasegawa's admission. 'As a matter of fact we were thinking [it was] too easy, and it was too difficult to achieve the new technology – that was my mistake,' Hasegawa told Motorsport.com. 'We did some good progress in the mono-cylinder on the dyno, but as soon as we complete...
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