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How Toro Rosso performance reset perceptions of Honda

Pierre Gasly's superb fourth place for Toro Rosso in the Bahrain Grand Prix has reset perceptions of Honda's Formula 1 engine programme almost overnight. Honda were ditched by McLaren at the end of last season, the team preferring to forego a net $100m (£71m) benefit of being a works partner with a car company in favour of paying for Renault engines because they had lost faith the Japanese company would ever get it right in F1. That decision looks questionable following Toro Rosso's performance in the desert at the weekend. Not only did Gasly qualify a stunning sixth, start fifth after Lewis Hamilton's grid penalty and race strongly to fourth, but both Toro Rosso cars out-qualified...
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