Yusuke Hasegawa admits some of his colleagues at Honda did not appreciate Fernando Alonso’s forthright criticism.
After three uncompetitive and unreliable years, the McLaren-Honda partnership will be disbanded after next month’s 2017 finale in Abu Dhabi.
Honda F1 boss Hasegawa admits it was three years of high pressure, with Spaniard Alonso applying some of that pressure himself.
“Alonso always came to put pressure on me,” the Japanese told El Confidencial newspaper.
“If the car was bad, he had no qualms about telling me he was not happy.