With the new regulations, all bets are off for next year. It would be a shame if McLaren have a great 2014, then go backwards due to slower unreliable Honda engines in 2015.

 

Does this mean I have to be a McLaren fan now? haha

 

Why are they going to be slower and unreliable? Some of the best years of F1 were when Mclaren had HONDA engines.

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and if you have never seen this, it is worth 5 minutes
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Nice little fact "During the Eighties and Nineties McLaren Honda won 44 grands prix and eight world championships."

 

Past performance is no guarantee of future success ;-)

Four world championships, unless you count winning both drivers and constructors as two.

It's certainly going to be interesting, but they've missed 5 years and are a year behind everyone else. McLaren will be the team breaking in a new engine in 2015, when everybody else will have had a year's running on theirs.

 

Honda are building the engine already. By 2015 it will be as 'ready' as anyone elses.

 

If Renault can build F1 engines, I don't think Honda will have too many issues

 

Except everybody else will have done 20 races, with 6 or 8 cars per engine supplier. Come on, it's not difficult to grasp.

They should have come in with the new regulations for 2014, but they've obviously been dithering and missed the oppurtunity.

 

They will still get the year doing dyno testing, plus they get to sit and watch what issues the other teams face and a years worth of feed feedback from McLaren on the Mercedes engine.

I suspect Honda are treading very carefully. They don't want a repeat of the last go at f1. They want to come back reliable and competitive, worse time to take that gamble is on the first year of a new set of rules so they're waiting till the dust settles and there is a proper sense of the pecking order.

That being said, they must be aware what they missed out in with the last big rule change.

 

It's worth pointing out that Honda have been building V6 Turbocharged racing engines for the Indycar series for a couple of years now.

(However, they are currently second behind Chevrolet!)

http://hpd.honda.com/indycar/specifi...rbo-V-6-Engine

The ECU is made by McLaren.

 

Rest assured, these engines for 2015 will have had hundreds of thousands of miles of testing before going near an F1 car.