News Details

Button says new Honda boss a big boost for McLaren

Jenson Button is convinced new Honda motorsport boss Yusuke Hasegawa will be a great boost for his McLaren team this year. Hasegawa, with whom Button worked in F1 at the Japanese manufacturer's own F1 team a decade ago, has replaced Yasuhisa Arai as Honda's motorsport boss. Arai had led the car marker's efforts in F1 since it announced its return to Formula 1 with McLaren. Button believes Hasegawa is exactly what both Honda and McLaren need to move forward. "He's a great leader. He's a great listener," Button told reporters on Tuesday. "He spent last week all the time with the engineers, the McLaren engineers and mechanics to get a good understanding of the team. "I've...
Full Story »
10y ago from Motorsport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Yasuhisa Arai out; Hasegawa in as Honda make changes

Honda's Yasuhisa Arai is to step down from his position at Honda, and...
10y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Honda to get new Formula 1 chief

– McLaren engine supplier Honda has announced a restructuring of...
10y ago from GPUpdate.net

Hasegawa replaces Arai as Honda chief

Yusuke Hasegawa will succeed Yasuhisa Arai as the head of Honda's Formula...
10y ago from BBC.co.uk

Honda motorsport boss Yasuhisa Arai to be replaced...

It has been confirmed that Honda's motorsport boss, Yasuhisa Arai,...
10y ago from GrandPrixTimes.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar to limit entries to those holding a charter

The NTT IndyCar Series has confirmed that future races will be limited to...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Pato O'Ward issues damning verdict on ‘Mario...

Pato O'Ward isn't chasing F1 any more after falling out of love with...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Oliver Solberg crashes out of Rally Islas Canarias

Oliver Solberg and Elliot Edmondson have crashed out of Rally Islas...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Sebastien Ogier dominates Rally Islas Canarias

Sebastien Ogier and Vincent Landais headed a Toyota one-two-three-four in...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arteta desperate for 100 million solution to Arsenal's...

In recent weeks, Arsenal's issues in the midfield have been evident. While...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Premier League and FA Cup semi-finals: 10 talking...

nchez plays long game for McFarlane, Southampton can take heart, Arteta...
17m ago from TheGuardian.com

Injury hit

Morning all. It's a change of focus for midweek as we look ahead to...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

'Let Arteta win the league' - Arsenal fans make plea...

An Arsenal fan has posted a video of himself begging Manchester City...
9h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.