McLaren-Honda to be granted an extra engine for both their drivers

To ease off their struggles by a little magnitude, the struggling McLaren team will be allowed an extra engine for each of their drivers, announced FIA. The decision was taking during the meeting of the sport’s Strategy Group that further agreed to a number of other changes.

“It was agreed to allow an extra power unit per driver in the first year to any new manufacturer entering the championship and, for the sake of fairness, the measure will apply retroactively to Honda for the 2015 season,” it said.

Despite having two of the best drivers on the grid, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, McLaren find themselves struggling to even complete the race all thanks to the struggling Honda Power Unit and its inability to get power more and reliability out of it.

This is possibly their worst start of the season so far. Once a challengers for drivers and constructors title, they’ve only managed four points so far, and too in Monaco.

The new entry to the McLaren paddock this year, the spaniard Fernando Alonso has suffered four successive retirements for the first time in his career while Jenson Button has had no good season himself, apart from the eight place finish in Monaco.

In Austria last month, Alonso and Button were both handed 25 place penalties – despite there being only 20 cars on the grid – for exceeding their season’s engine allocation.

The FIA said an overhaul of power unit penalties had been unanimously agreed and would be submitted to an express vote by its World Motorsport Council in Mexico City next week.