#MakeHistory. This was the slogan that accompanied the return to F1 of the Honda alongside McLaren starting from 2015 in the second year of the turbo-hybrid era. The three-year period 2015, 2016 and 2017 was traumatic for the Woking team and the Japanese manufacturer, forced to chase Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault on very complicated and mined terrain like the power units that made their debut in the Circus in 2014. Honda was ready to retire at the end of 2017, but Helmut Marko has revealed that he has convinced the leaders of the Japanese giant not to abandon the dream of returning to winning in F1.
“When I began to hear in the paddock that the Honda was ready to retire, I did everything in my power to make sure it wasn’t like that. – explained Marko joined by the Dutch newspaper Formule1 – I set my contacts in motion and phoned the Honda president to guarantee him the world title. I hit the right chords “. The title then arrived in 2021 with Max Verstappen, Marko added some not insignificant details on the aces put on the table to convince Honda to remain in F1 as a partner of the then Toro Rosso in 2018 and then an engine supplier to Red Bull. starting from 2019. “I connected Honda and AVL, a company with 12,000 employees, 80% of whom are engineers. Based in Graz develop dynamic engines and benches. They have supplied Honda with equipment worth over fifty million euros“Marko specified.
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