McLaren and Scuderia Toro Rosso will effectively swap engine allocations as part of the former's split from Honda Honda’s motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto has claimed that the McLaren Formula 1 team struggles to adapt to change. The two parties will split at the end of the season after three frustrating seasons, with McLaren switching to Renault engines and Scuderia Toro Rosso taking over the Hondas. Yamamoto, Honda’s general manager of motorsport, suggested that STR will be more receptive to change than the Woking squad was. “Working with McLaren, I’ve realised that they are a very big company which is very systematic,” said Yamamoto in an interview on the Honda Racing website....
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