Jenson Button managed to score McLaren's sole top-10 finish (and therefore sole championship point) at this year's Monaco Grand Prix
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2015 is going to be the year that Honda wishes never happened, at least as far as the company's motorsports activities are concerned. Its high-profile (and big budget) return to F1 is a debacle, Chevrolet is dominating the company in IndyCar, its endurance prototype had to be withdrawn at the beginning of the year, and now it has pulled out of the annual Pikes Peak Hillclimb.
Honda returned to F1 this year, supplying the engines for the McLaren team, something that has rapidly turned into a fiasco with multiple engine failures that will probably contribute to the team's worst result since Ron Dennis' Project 4 merged with Bruce McLaren's team back in 1981. It had the potential to be a match made in heaven; the last time Honda and McLaren partnered up in the late 1980s they dominated the sport, winning 15 out of 16 races in 1988.
But the current F1 hybrid engines are complex beasts to get working properly, and each driver is only allowed to use a maximum of four engines during the year. If you need to use a fifth, that's an automatic penalty, but worse still, cumulative penalties are also levied if a car needs to use a fifth turbocharger, kinetic energy motor/generator unit (MGU-K, that recaptures energy under deceleration), MGU-H (that captures energy from the turbo), ECU, or battery.
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