Formula One engine supplier Honda, having parted ways with McLaren, is setting its sights on challenging among the top-three next season with new partners Toro Rosso, a senior executive said. McLaren and Honda announced a long-awaited divorce on Friday, calling time on a troubled three-year partnership. As part of the complex deal, McLaren will join forces with Renault who agreed a split with Toro Rosso, freeing the Red Bull-owned team to take up McLaren's Honda supply starting next year. The shake-up ends McLaren and Honda's dream of recreating the glory years of the late 1980s and early 90s, when Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost were dominant. However, it does free Honda from a relationship...
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