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Honda admits “chain reactions” to blame for repeated failures
Honda chief Yasuhisa Arai has explained that the sophisticated level of turbo technology has made life tougher than he’d ever imagined on its return to Formula 1 with McLaren. The Honda-powered team sits ninth in the championship, and has suffered nine retirements (three of them with both cars in one Grand Prix) in 10 races along with several stoppages during the practice and qualifying sessions. Arai says that the power-unit package is so complicated that one failure in a small component triggers a domino effect. “If you try to harvest energy using the MGU-H, it puts a strenuous workload on the turbo,” he said. “When the turbo is under stress, it cannot do what it is supposed to...
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