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Honda expect to start using engine tokens mid-season

Honda will soon begin to spend its allotted engine tokens to improve the performance of its F1 power unit. To date, improvements made to the Japanese marque's power unit have been for reliability purposes. It means that McLaren's works supplier still has in its possession the 9 ‘tokens' it was awarded at the beginning of the year by the governing FIA, which can be exchanged for in-season performance upgrades. F1 chief Yasuhisa Arai would not say exactly when Honda will begin to use the tokens, but it will not be done at the very end of the season. 'That would not make sense,' he told Marca. 'We will [use them] when we know that we will gain, and it will be soon, after the tests.'...
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