McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has remained tight-lipped on reports that the team have let their option on the use of Mercedes engines for 2015 lapse, paving the way for a return to Honda power. Suggestions the Woking team are poised will end their long association with Mercedes at the end of next season have gathered sustained pace in recent months amid reports that Honda are gearing up to a return to F1, as an engine supplier, for the first time since they quit the sport at the end of 2008. A report in Germany's Auto Motor und Sport publication last week claimed that McLaren had until the end of April to notify Mercedes if they wanted to continue using their engines into 2015, an option...
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