{"id":18254,"date":"2013-05-11T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2013-05-11T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T13:26:36","slug":"mclaren-to-use-free-honda-engines-in-2015-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-to-use-free-honda-engines-in-2015-report\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to use free Honda engines in 2015 &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren will surely be Honda-powered in 2015, according to Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-13-drivers\/Sergio-Perez-car.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/>Reporting from Barcelona, he said McLaren has let a deadline pass whereby it could have extended its customer deal with Mercedes beyond next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That can only mean Honda in 2015,&#8221; said Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the Japanese carmaker &#8211; having withdrawn from F1 amid the global financial crisis at the end of 2008 &#8211; will not charge McLaren for its turbo V6 engines.<\/p>\n<p>Honda, however, will surely subsidise its development costs with one or two customer deals, and Sauber and Lotus are thought to have already expressed interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are studying (the idea of returning to F1) as seriously as possible,&#8221; Honda president Takanobu Ito said recently.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus could be on the move due to the apparently high price of staying with Renault in 2014 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport said Renault wants to charge its customers between EUR 20 and 23 million per season, while the Mercedes engine will cost 17-19 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari is reportedly offering the cheapest package, with the price tag between 15 and 17 million.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren will surely be Honda-powered in 2015, according to Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt. Reporting from Barcelona, he said McLaren has let a deadline pass whereby it could have extended its customer deal with Mercedes beyond next season. &#8220;That can only mean Honda in 2015,&#8221; said Schmidt. Reportedly, the Japanese carmaker &#8211; having &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,5284,4460,4461],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}