Honda's head of motorsport Yasuhisa Arai says the firm rejected McLaren's suggestion they should hire engine staff from established F1 outfits. The Honda unit struggled with reliability and performance compared to those supplied by Mercedes and Ferrari as the Japanese marque returned to F1 in 2015. But rather than look to immediately increase their knowledge of the new hybrid power units by recruiting externally, Honda persevered with a philosophy of training their own staff. "Sometime around last summer, they asked if we had sufficient [development] resources and wanted to know why we were doing things exclusively on our own," Arai told Japan's Nikkei newspaper. "They also...
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