Max Verstappen sounds enthused about Red Bull’s Honda-powered future. That is despite the fact that many in the paddock are wondering why a top team would sign up with a Japanese manufacturer whose recent three-year collaboration with McLaren failed so badly.

“Yes I’m surprised,” said Sergio Perez in France. “I didn’t really think Honda had a good engine.”

Verstappen, however, appears to know otherwise.

“I was in Japan last year,” he told Speed Week. “The engine factory is really great and it was interesting to see how Renault and Honda differ.

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