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Honda says engine ERS now on a par with Mercedes
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Honda's Yusuke Hasegawa, who heads the manufacturer's efforts in F1, believes the efficiency of its power unit's Energy Recovery System is now on the same level as Mercedes' ERS. The unit's energy recovery capabilities were Honda's Achilles heel last season when McLaren endured a dismal 2015 which saw it linger at the tail end of the grid all year round. Honda therefore focused most of its development work last winter on improving its power unit's ERS, with Hasegawa now claiming that progress has brought it up to the level of Mercedes' engine, as McLaren-Honda's recent performance uplift in qualifying has demonstrated. "From an energy recovery system point of view, we have...
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