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Honda confident current engine concept has potential to match Mercedes

Honda believe their power unit concept, which was designed from the ground-up for the 2017 season, has the potential to match the leading power unit supplied by Mercedes, and therefore they will stick with it and continue to develop it through 2018. Honda currently supply only McLaren and have struggled to get on top of the new engine rules, with seasons one and two proving disastrous for the team. Meanwhile their third season together hasn't gone much better, in fact they have less points than they did at the same point in 2016. But Honda chose to introduce an entirely new design concept this year, which Honda F1's head Yusuke Hasegawa compared to starting from scratch and...
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