News Details

Honda targets were too low in 2016 - Hasegawa

 XPB Images Honda did not set high enough targets for itself at the start of the 2016 season, according to head of F1 project Yusuke Hasegawa. Following a difficult first season back in F1 as power unit supplier to McLaren, Honda focused on improving its reliability during the off-season last year as well as addressing an ERS deficit. While there was a clear step forward this year - with the McLaren points tally rising from 25 points in 2015 to 76 this season - Hasegawa admits the initial goals were not ambitious enough. “Of course we set a target,” Hasegawa told F1i. “But honestly speaking, the target we set wasn’t big enough or good enough. So we weren’t optimistic...
Full Story »
7y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

‘Important to end tough year on a high,' says...

Sebastian Vettel says it was “nice to finish on a high” after taking...
7y ago from PlanetF1.com

Alonso samples MotoGP title winning Honda

McLaren Honda driver Fernando Alonso rode the title-winning 2016 RC213V...
7y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Rosberg: Horrible 2015 US GP was the kick-start

Nico Rosberg says the manner in which he lost the 2015 United States GP...
7y ago from PlanetF1.com

Mercedes driver recruitment process will start next...

Mercedes Formula One team will begin finding a replacement for Nico...
7y ago from F1Hub.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Aldeguer signs two-year MotoGP deal with Ducati for...

Fermín Aldeguer will make the step up to MotoGP in 2025, having agreed a...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Lundqvist: CGR resources are ‘everything I could...

Linus Lundqvist is one of three rookies contesting the entirety of the...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Consistency a top priority for Ericsson at ‘up and...

As Marcus Ericsson enters his sixth year racing in the NTT IndyCar Series,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kenjiro Shinozuka, 1948–2024

Kenjiro Shinozuka, the 1997 Paris–Dakar Rally victor and 2× World Rally...
11h ago from TheCheckeredFlag...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal star joins Ben White in rejecting...

Arsenal player Thomas Partey has declined an international call-up,...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal and Tottenham target moves closer to £60m...

Pedro Neto is expected to have played his final game for Wolves, pushing...
18m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Big Gabi out of Brazil squad + Forest's points...

Morning. Not a lot of news but the main Arsenal story is the fact that...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Man United want Real Madrid striker that Prem rivals...

The biggest clubs in European football could line up markedly differently...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.