Marko: Alonso made Honda 'look bad'
Jan.29 - Dr Helmut Marko says Red Bull's new plan for 2018 is still on track.
Recently, Marko said the team had learned from 2017, when it started with a car off Mercedes and Ferrari's pace.
"Based on our experience last year, we gave the engineers a deadline," he now explains to Auto Motor und Sport.
"There is no worrying this time about whether we can make it to the first test."
Quietly, Marko is optimistic about the RB14 car amid whispers from France that Renault has got the reliability problems of its engine under control.
But there are no public goals from Red Bull, with Marko saying only: "Let us surprise.
"We have optimal values, but we do every year," he said.
Another positive factor is the strong involvement of Adrian Newey, although Marko admits the famous designer is not involved "100 per cent".
As for the future, Red Bull is reportedly looking beyond 2018 with Renault and considering joining sister team Toro Rosso in using Honda power.
"Honda is very active and have already found something," Marko said.
"Perhaps they will manage to be on Renault's level with their second engine (specification).
"Honda had to compromise because of the McLaren chassis and were not able to develop freely. And Alonso did everything he could to make the engine look bad," he added.
For 2018, Marko expects Mercedes to dominate again.
"The worst thing is their qualifying mode, because you cannot overtake on most tracks," he said.
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Alonso didn't go out of his way to make Honda look bad, everyone could see he was driving the nuts off the car. His driving showed how bad the engine was, and because of that Honda had no where to hide. Obviously Marko is going to be pro Honda and if they have another torrid season will he blame Alonso for that.
Honda and McLaren went from the back to the top ten in one year with the new engine a superlative by any means, yet Alonso still took every available option to slag off Honda
Honda were very brave admitting they took the wrong route with the first engine and started afresh after two years
Never once publically did Alonso state they had done good work with each upgrade
Alonso will never win another F1 title. There are new exceptional f1 drivers with
better driving skills and better reaction times.
Absolut right Alonso will never win any more F1 titel. Probably not even a race. He was not a soldier and did his work instead he was very unlojal to his enployer HONDA. Thats a very bad thing a dont lead to anything positive and I just wonder why he didnt quit and let another drive the HONDA MacLaren instead . Maybe he get paid by Renault to say bad things or why did he do it as it wouldent help to talk shit.
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