2016 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX EDITION
will be worse,” said double former champion Alonso who finished seventh in
Malaysia last time out despite having started last.
“There’s nothing really wrong…it’s just the nature of the circuit that is not
suiting our car,” added the Spaniard. “Hopefully we can recover some places in
the race…points are the target even if it’s going to be very, very difficult.”
Last year’s Japanese race marked arguably the nadir of a bruising return
to Formula One for Honda who had renewed a once-dominant partnership with
Woking-based McLaren but struggled to adapt to the sport’s complicated new
turbo-hybrid technology.
GPI