Honda: "Balance issues at Red Bull, but solved the problems of Verstappen"

Friday in Hungary didn't go quite smoothly for Honda. Pierre Gasly was forced to stay in the garage during the first free practice session, while during the second free practice session there wasn't much to do because of the rain on the track. Toyoharu Tanabe, Honda's technical director, says there's still a lot of work to do for Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri.

"The temperature in Hungary was generally very low. Because there was so much rain in FP2 and the temperature was so low, the teams hardly drove. Red Bull had a bad balance of the car in FP1 and wanted to finish a part of the setup. Due to the weather that didn't work though", Tanabe looks back with the Japanese AS.

Problems Verstappen solved

"Saturday will be another unstable day around the weather forecast, so we'll have to keep going during FP3". The balance in Red Bull's car wasn't the only problem Honda encountered in Hungary. Max Verstappen was also complaining about his engine during the first free practice.

"The problem that Verstappen had is solved in FP2. However, it is still difficult to assess whether it really works, because the rain makes it difficult to collect real data. It looks like the cold tyres will quickly cause you to oversteer. That's what he was talking about," concludes Tanabe.