According to the announcement, Honda will eliminate alliance with McLaren, the British racing team supplying engines at the highest peak of automobile race F1, as far as the season.

Honda resumed the supply of engines to McLaren from 2015, boasted overwhelming strength in F1 from the latter half of the 1980s to the 1990s, revived the team "McLaren Honda" who had built the golden age It was.

Although Honda got noticed in returning to F1 for the first time in seven years, because McLaren side continued sluggish in the race due to insufficient power of the engine and successive troubles, I was looking for partnerships with manufacturers.

In response to the tie-up with McLaren, Honda will supply engines to Italian racing team Toro Rosso from next season and will continue to enter F1.

Honda's president Takahiro Yagori commented, "I am very sorry to distinguish himself at mid-term but I decided as the best way for each other's future."