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Honda: "Worked three times faster to get the new engine ready"

Honda say they only started developing the new engine for the RB16B in October. The power unit was actually intended for 2022, but it was decided to bring it forward and align it with the 2021 car. Head of Honda's research and development team Yasuaki Asaki explains why this choice was made. "We have been working for the last few years to see where the limits of the old engine were," Asaki says in conversation with Formula1.com. "But it was only in October that we started to put everything into the development of the new engine." Read more Andretti disagrees with activism Hamilton: 'It causes division' Mercedes couldn't be beaten with old powerplant They still had to...
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