tranquility2k9
Podium Finisher
Some very interesting news on the horizon. The German website auto-motor-und-sport has started to speculate and report that talks are happening behind the scenes between McLaren and Honda, with regard to McLaren using Honda V6 engines from 2014. This would bring back quite a historic partnership and quite frankly makes me quite excited. The Honda engines have always been very good in my opinion and I think they could make a very competitive engine for the 2014 regs (remember their turbo engines in the 80's?).
You can view the article here:- http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/...s-mclaren-honda-vor-dem-comeback-4100663.html
- you may like to use Google Translate and copy/paste the text in for auto translation:- http://translate.google.com/
My interpretation is that McLaren's contract with Mercedes runs out at the end of 2012 and for 2013 they will have to pay Mercedes for use of their engines. They want to find a new long-term engine supplier and as they do not seem to want to make engines themselves, the partnership with Honda would make sense.
Thoughts?
You can view the article here:- http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/...s-mclaren-honda-vor-dem-comeback-4100663.html
- you may like to use Google Translate and copy/paste the text in for auto translation:- http://translate.google.com/
My interpretation is that McLaren's contract with Mercedes runs out at the end of 2012 and for 2013 they will have to pay Mercedes for use of their engines. They want to find a new long-term engine supplier and as they do not seem to want to make engines themselves, the partnership with Honda would make sense.
Thoughts?