23 May, 2013 McLaren looks set to be the only Honda powered team in 2015, the second year of the new turbo era that gets underway in next year. The British team is already signed up to be Japanese carmaker's ‘works' partner, but it had been reported that Lotus, Sauber and Williams had enquired about becoming customers of Honda's turbo V6 engine. Indeed, it was believed that – under FIA rules – Honda was actually obliged to make available its engines to one or more customer teams when it returns to Formula 1. But German-language reports, in Speed Week and by the SID news agency, quote Martin Whitmarsh as suggesting Honda is in fact not obliged to have customers. 'To my...
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