McLaren-Honda's 2015 Formula 1 season has been a thorough disappointment by anyone's standards, and there is no reason to expect that to change in the Belgian Grand Prix.
Honda has spent three tokens and upgraded its V6 combustion engine for this weekend's Spa race, which raised hopes this might carry the revived Woking/Sakura alliance closer to the front of the F1 field.
That is not going to happen in Belgium. Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso set the 17th and 18th fastest times in Friday practice, which placed them 2.469 seconds and 3.185s respectively adrift of the pace set by Nico Rosberg's Mercedes.
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