FIA: Honda will also be able to develop its F1 engine

McLaren Honda F1 – The FIA ​​would have retraced its steps by also allowing Honda, as already granted to Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault, to develop its own power unit during the 2015 Formula 1 season. Honda, McLaren's new engine manufacturer, had expressed its discontent with having been excluded from developments during the season with the famous 32 intervention tokens granted to other engine engineers.

Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari can in fact modify up to 48% of the engines used in 2014 for the next season while Honda, as the new engine manufacturer, should have homologated its engine by February 28th and not make changes during the season.

But after several meetings with the FIA ​​the Japanese manufacturer managed to obtain some concessions from the FIA. According to the Federation, none of the three current engineers will use all 32 development tokens at the start of the season. Mercedes is still in a dominant position, obviously, but Renault and Ferrari will also leave areas to develop during the season so the FIA's idea is to grant Honda a number of development interventions calculated on the average of the tokens unused by the other manufacturers before the first race in Australia.

According to the BBC, Charlie Writing, FIA race director, said: “If the three 2014 manufacturers have eight, seven or five unused tokens respectively at the start of the season, then the new engineer will be allowed to use six during the season )”.