"There are a lot of cultural differences, and I think it is more about McLaren understanding the strategy and commitment of Honda and make sure we fit it into our world rather than expecting them to come to our culture,

The remaining tokens available to each of the four manufacturers are:

Honda 7 (2 used)
Ferrari 7 (3 used)
Mercedes 7
Renault 12

Canada is a power circuit, so we need more power, and with heavy braking the energy recovery is also important.

We will think about how to deliver the MGU-K power to feed that kind of fast, high-speed circuit.

McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button will be allowed to use an additional power unit without penalty in 2015 after the FIA tweaked Formula 1's rules for new engine manufacturers.

As part of a raft of regulation changes decided in Wednesday's Strategy Group meeting, the FIA said an extra power unit per driver will be granted for any new manufacturer entering the sport.

The FIA said "for the sake of fairness" the measure will apply retrospectively to Honda, which entered the sport with McLaren this year, for the 2015 season.

It comes after Alonso and Button were given 25-place grid penalties in Austria when they both exceeded their respective engine allocations by taking a fifth unit.

The rules divide the power unit into six elements - the internal-combusion engine, the MGU-K, the MGU-H, the turbocharger, the energy store and control electronics - that can be individually exchanged.

When a driver breaks into the first of their extra power units with the introduction of any one of those components, they are hit with a 10-place grid penalty with a five-place drop for the subsequent components of that power unit.

The pattern continues with each subsequent extra power unit, but now each McLaren driver will be able to introduce a complete set of components without penalty thanks to the rule change.

Meanwhile, the FIA added the price customer teams have to pay for an engine supply will be looked at as part of a wider tweak of the current engine formula.

Currently, customer teams are paying between £14-17million for the powertrains.

"Mandate has been given to the FIA and FOM to propose a comprehensive set of measures for power unit development and cost of supply," added the FIA in a statement.

"This will include full review of the token system, increase in race fuel allowance, limits of the usage of engine dynamometers etc."

Вступило в силу новое правило по которому вновь-прибывший моторист может использовать на одну СУ в сезон больше "во имя справедливости")

нам не поможет!))

Нашим харакири-сан только анлим поможет

Spa is the final upgrade for this year, with ancillaries to follow in the following race,

Mk 3 [will be introduced] in Spa [and] we have already started development on next season's power unit.

Mk 4 will be on the same level as Mercedes, that is the target; Mk 3 will be on a level similar to Ferrari, which is what we're aiming for. It's a big step.

[The car has] not so good mechanical grip, or aero, compared with Red Bull there is still a big gap,

We have checked the GPS data; the chassis and aero package needs time and fine-tuning, such as wing angle, ride heights, suspension settings.

[Engine] unreliability has meant lots of parts were changed in winter testing and so things like flow-vis and taking data has been done during the season in FP1, due to the unreliability in the winter.

From the start of the season we knew there was a cooling problem, so we turned the engine power down a lot,

We upgraded the power unit in Spain to 'Spec 2' and we have almost perfected the heat rejection.

Due to the compact package, you have the very skinny [bodywork] and everything on the inside had many issues regarding heat rejection, which causes a lot of damage for the MGU-H, the MGU-K.

Finally, in Hungary, we have no problems and we have a good package.

It was very positive.

It actually beat all the expectations on the data, the dyno measures.

It worked as per plan, and has improved.

So we introduced this engine here because we know it's a track layout that doesn't suit our package, and then run it from the race in the USA.

From the forthcoming race at Austin onwards, McLaren and Honda will run the new unit with Alonso, with the plan to hand team-mate Jenson Button the updates for Mexico.

At this circuit, on the engine itself, there has been a scheduled improvement, but total horsepower, with deployment, is still weak.

Джорджио Пиола изучил технические обновления MP4-30, которые McLaren привезла в штаты и вот статья с анализом

там одна фраза забавная - Что самое интересное, часть доработок McLaren подсмотрела у соперников из Mercedes и Ferrari.
похоже в плане новаторства мы вроде бы хороши, но вот чтобы это новаторство реально приносило плоды, нам пахать и пахать и желательно своими мозгами.

ну и если бы подсматривание / высматривание было таким простым делом - подсмотрел, внедрил, поехал, выиграл...