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" The open-wheeled stars have aligned again, and it&amp;#039;s almost uncanny what they&amp;#039;ve revealed: a McLaren Honda Formula 1 team, again. It&amp;#039;s been roughly 20 years since the chassis constructor and engine supplier worked together and achieved phenomenal success, with four consecutive driver&amp;#039;s and constructor&amp;#039;s championships from 1988 to 1991. For those keeping score, that&amp;#039;s a total of 44 wins, 53 poles, and 30 fastest laps in a total of 80 grand prix races.  And we have a bit of a memento of that era sitting in our lobby, actually. It&amp;#039;s a McLaren Honda MP4/6, of the same type that took Ayrton Senna to the team&amp;#039;s final titles of that incredible run of wins. It&amp;#039;s an incredible car, from an incredible era, piloted by arguably the best F1 driver ever. That&amp;#039;s what McLaren Honda represents to any F1 fan with a sense of perspective.  Will it be that again? It&amp;#039;s anyone&amp;#039;s guess. McLaren has been in this game a long, long time, but the MP4-28 of this year is, to be blunt, flawed. That probably doesn&amp;#039;t mean much, because by 2015 when the new team will launch, everything will be different. There will be a 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 utilizing direct injection and KERS amidships, and that&amp;#039;ll require a much different chassis. And who knows what sort of aero restrictions and regulations will be imposed.  McLaren, of course, will handle the chassis and aero package, and Honda will handle the powertrain. Considering Honda&amp;#039;s long experience with V6 configurations, pioneering efforts with hybrids, and its history of constructing incredible turbocharged F1 engines in the 1980s, signs are good that Honda will master this tech required to be competitive. That being said, F1 is such an exotic alternate universe of engineering concerns that the new team can&amp;#039;t afford to take anything for granted.  It should be noted that the engine supply deal isn&amp;#039;t exclusive, and Honda may end up providing engines to other teams. But the Honda-McLaren relationship will be a traditional &amp;quot;works-type team arrangement,&amp;quot; according to McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale. Whether that will give the new team an edge over Ferrari and Red Bull in the future, or whether these competitors will be packing the same drivetrain, is anybody&amp;#039;s guess.  In the chronology of F1, 2015 is an epoch away. But ancient history is repeating itself, and whether McLaren Honda can reconcile its aspirations with its historical record of success is an open question.  via Honda, McLaren, and ESPNF1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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