article_snippet: McLaren have moved from Mercedes engines to Honda and it is a bit like any relationship; it takes time.
article_snippet: Driver talent is clearly secondary to budgets, albeit with a few exceptions at the sharp end of the grid.
article_snippet: This year there is a four-engine limit for the entire season.
article_snippet: So, combine that with the limited testing, and restrictions on engines, and how are engine manufacturers, particularly somebody coming into this Formula, such as Honda, expected to catch up, let alone match, those who started last year?
article_snippet: When you go through the design, manufacturing and development phases it is only when you put that engine in the car
article_snippet: But a Honda and Mercedes engines are completely different.
article_snippet: But the benefits Honda would have gained from that would be invaluable.
article_snippet: The massive problem for Honda is that Honda can do very little, in terms of testing, once the engine is certified and in the car.
article_snippet: Renault wanted to have an opportunity to produce a new engine this year, but the rules did not allow the rules.