Honda has restructured the senior management of its under-performing Formula 1 operations after the split from McLaren, with Yusuke Hasegawa to stand down as head of the Japanese company’s Formula 1 project at the end of the year. Honda, starting a new partnership with Red Bull-owned Toro Rosso from January, said in a statement on Thursday that Hasegawa’s position would be split into two separate functions. Toyoharu Tanabe, an experienced Formula One veteran who worked as race engineer to Austrian Gerhard Berger at McLaren in the early 1990s, had been appointed as F1 technical director. Tanabe, who was also chief engineer to Britain’s Jenson Button at BAR and Honda Racing between...
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