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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2017 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly to rather cloudy becoming partly cloudy VISIBILITY: Good WIND: East force 5 to 6 becoming force 4 to 5, locally force 3 to 4 by afternoon. Overnight becoming force 2 to 3 locally force 3 to 4. SEA: Moderate to rough, locally rough at first. Overnight becoming moderate. SWELL: Low Southerly becoming Southeasterly by midday and becoming East to Northeast overnight A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. PARTLY CLOUDY 16 º C / 11 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 6. Reduce to a lower grade 7. Bedouin 8. Toil 9. Abilities 10. Long hard seat 12. Frozen dew 15. False 17. River sediment 18. Restaurant 19. Suds Down 1. Take off 2. People in general 3. Use again 4. Small sword 5. Travel on water 11. Bent 13. Treated with salt 14. Back portions of feet 16. Ark builder 17. Hardens Rb2 any (except xg6) Rxb8++ ........ xg6 Rh2++ FORMULA 1 Honda's new approach 'very high risk' HONDA'S Formula 1 chief, Yu- suke Hasegawa, has admitted that the manufacturer's decision to adopt an all-new approach with its 2017-specification en- gine involves "very high risk ". Honda endured a tough return to F1 with McLaren in 2015 and, while it made steady improve- ments through 2016, remained adrift of engine rivals Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault. However, for 2017, manufac- turers have been given freedom to overhaul their units and bring updates to the track as they wish, after the controversial to- ken system was scrapped. McLaren technical chief Tim Goss recently revealed that Honda has "redesigned " its pow- er unit, with engine architecture and layout altered to improve performance and packaging. Hasegawa, speaking to Autos- port, said: "The concept is com- pletely different. "It's very high risk, we don't know a lot of things about that new concept." Addressing when gains are likely to be felt, he commented: "We know it will give us a per- formance advantage, but the biggest risk is whether we can realise that potential this year." Hasegawa added that the In- ternal Combustion Engine (ICE) remains a priority. "We need to concentrate on the ICE for this year," he went on to state. "If we improve the engine it- self, which means boosting ex- haust gas energy, we need to boost the turbine otherwise we cannot perform at the same lev- el in terms of deployment. "We still have to do some tests and there will be some trial and error. "I hope we have understood the direction and the [power unit] elements to focus on, but it's not easy to combine the elements to realise the improvements on the ICE completely." McLaren will field Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne in 2017.