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McLaren-Honda will roll out a new-spec engine after F1’s summer break

Honda has admitted it underestimated the difficulty of its return to formula one this year. While much of the rest of the F1 world heads off for a summer break, McLaren's Japanese ‘power unit' supplier is still hard at work. A significant upgrade for Spa, the first race after the break, is being prepared. 'We want to change the characteristic with the chamber design and intake and exhaust system layout,' said Honda's F1 chief Yasuhisa Arai, revealing that some of the remaining seven FIA performance ‘tokens' will be traded in. However, he said Honda continues to stand by its basic 2015 turbo V6 design, even though it has proved unreliable and McLaren's Eric Boullier has spoken...
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