Sauber's new deal with Honda will bring to an end its long-term partnership with Ferrari, which is providing year-old engines to the outfit through 2017.
Although Honda has struggled since its return to F1 with McLaren in 2015, Sauber expects the agreement to "certainly unveil future opportunities" for both parties.
In my opinion, this is no major surprise that the news has happen yesterday. As this has been rumoured for the past weeks that Sauber will swap over to Honda power units for 2018 season.
This is a very good deal for Sauber, as I believe that the Honda power units will cost less compared to the current year old Ferrari power units engines they are using currently. As this would help the financial side of Sauber of reducing debt with the team.
However, the current Honda power units are under-powered and unreliable if it does continue going into 2018 this could be the wrong decision for Sauber.
Don't forget, this would be the last season the team will use the Ferrari engines at the end of a 20 year partnership (minus the BMW Sauber days).
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