The Honda Mclaren partnership in its first year isn't unlike the first year Mercedes Mclaren partnership. Mclaren were qualifying in the mid teens and they were fairly perilously poor. The difference between then and now, is that now we've got a development straight jacket that would preclude any leaps of form.
I don't expect the relationship to rupture though. Mclaren will loathe to go back to a customer engine. Whether Honda will think the better of it, is less certain.
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