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Honda to 'enhance' collaboration with outside partners in 2018
Honda's outgoing F1 boss, Yusueka Hasegawa, confirmed the manufacturer's use of outside consultants for engine development, a trend that will continue in 2018. Faced with persistent under-performance and reliability issues since it joined F1's hybrid era in 2015, Honda saw its partnership with McLaren progressively dissolve and ultimately implode. The engine supplier's revamped power unit introduced at the start of the year proved just as disappointing as its predecessor, enticing Honda to rely on outside help to extricate itself from the doldrums. As Honda switches its allegiance to Toro Rosso for 2018, Hasegawa says its collaborative work with its partners, the identity of which he would...
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