 Further criticism was directed towards the decision to consciously limit Honda 's involvement in the sport to supplying a single team , with Scuderia Toro Rosso and the embattled Manor Marussia touted as a potential Honda customer to gather additional data . However , the team rejected the criticism , arguing that the infrastructure needed to establish such a partnership would distract from their own campaign , and earmarking the 2017 season as the earliest possible date that an expansion could be considered . With the team revising its performance targets down from podiums to regular points , Éric Boullier acknowledged that the team would be facing a budgetary shortfall for the 2016 season , estimated to be some US $ 23 million ( £ 15 million ) , as the team had originally anticipated finishing fifth rather than ninth in World Constructors ' Championship , and with it , a great share of prize money . 
