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Button hopes to stay for Honda’s new 2017 engine

Button hopes to stay for Honda's new 2017 engine Jenson Button has confirmed reports Honda is working on a major redesign of its F1 ‘power unit' for McLaren to use in 2017. The Japanese marque has made steps forward this year after a disastrous 2015, but Button was still a tenth shy of making it into ‘Q3' in Russia. So while Honda is planning more upgrades for later this year, reports this week suggested the manufacturer has now acknowledged that putting the turbo inside the ‘V' of the six-cylinder internal combustion engine was a mistake. 'I think with the way the engine is, yes, it's difficult to extract the power that we feel we need,' Button said at Sochi. 'And that's...
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