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Mukumoto: No Honda wins in 2015 and 2016 will be tough

A highly rated young Honda engineer has broken ranks and admitted the Japanese marque will not power a McLaren driver to victory in 2015. Despite the difficult, uncompetitive and unreliable birth in 2015 to the new works McLaren-Honda alliance, the ‘graphite-grey' outfit has been a near-perfect picture of optimism. Drivers and bosses are refusing even to rule out race wins, with Honda's F1 chief Yasuhisa Arai saying last week that catching up to Mercedes by season end remains the target. But when asked if Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button will be in a position to win races in 2015, Honda engineer Ryo Mukumoto admitted categorically to Marca: 'No. And next year it will also be...
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