As part of a daily series in the run-up to the start of pre-season, Motorsport Week brings you brief left-field reflections and stories of teams, drivers and reserve/test drivers that will be part of the Formula 1 paddock in 2019. Honda will this year supply Red Bull and Toro Rosso – the first time since its Formula 1 comeback that it has acted as partner to multiple teams. It will be the fifth season since it returned to Formula 1 as an engine supplier, which came off the back of a six-year absence, following the plug being pulled on its programme at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Honda’s return with McLaren for 2015 was beset by chronic underperformance and...
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