Masashi Yamamoto, Honda’s F1 managing director, has described the Bahrain Grand Prix as his most stressful day in the sport. For much of the first race in their final season supplying engines to Red Bull and AlphaTauri, Honda looked like claiming a morale-boosting victory through Max Verstappen. But with Sir Lewis Hamilton performing the undercut in his Mercedes to gain track position out in front, Verstappen closed him down but could not get past with a legal overtake and eventually finished second just 0.745sec behind. Honda want nothing more than to exit F1 as World Champions and Yamamoto knew it was an opportunity lost to strike an early blow, with the intensity of a thrilling race...
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