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Alonso quick to congratulate Honda on title triumph

Fernando Alonso has a somewhat chequered history with Honda, but was not shy to congratulate them on their latest World Championship success. The Spaniard famously made reference over the team radio to a “GP2 engine” when driving a McLaren with Honda power – embarrassingly for them, in the 2015 Japanese Grand Prix. But there are no hard feelings on the current Alpine driver’s part because he made a beeline to congratulate Honda officials in Abu Dhabi after Max Verstappen had clinched the Drivers’ title in the engine manufacturer’s final race before they exit Formula 1. The recipient of Alonso’s wishes was Honda’s sporting director Masashi Yamamoto, with whom the...
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