Honda didn't perform as expected this season. After an 'excellent' winter test Red Bull would be ready for the battle with competitor Mercedes. As it turned out: Honda is still lagging behind. And that is also difficult for Honda's chief engineer, Masamitsu Motohashi, to swallow.

Motohashi also admits that Honda, with both Red Bull and Alpha Tauri, has problems adjusting a good setup: "I think that one of the main reasons that we have not been able to decide on a good set-up is that we have not been able to understand cars as well as we would like". says Motohashi to as-web.jp

Positivity for the future

Despite Honda's mediocre results, Motohashi is positive about the course of the rest of the season: "After the first races we are learning more and more about how the car behaves in changing weather and track conditions, and how we adapt our cars to them".