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In Japan rumours suggest Honda is looking at buying into McLaren.

After a six year absence, the Japanese car manufacturer is returning to formula one next year, initially as McLaren's works supplier of turbo V6 engines.

But when Honda quit at the end of 2008, it also wholly owned the Brackley based team that today is Mercedes.

The Honda buy-in rumours were reported on Tuesday by German-language Speed Week, saying the shares in question are currently held by the Bahrain-owned Mumtalakat company.

Bahrain currently owns 50 per cent of the Woking based team.

McLaren MP4-29-Mercedes. (Photo: WRI2)

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Charlie Whiting wants to prevent a repeat of the Monaco qualifying scandal.

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have fallen out spectacularly, after Hamilton accused his Mercedes teammate of making a deliberate mistake in the dying minutes of their fight for pole on Saturday.

The FIA looked into whether Rosberg triggered the yellow flags on purpose in order to ruin the sister Mercedes' run, but found no evidence of a foul.

Many, including Monaco steward Derek Warwick, found it hard to believe Rosberg 'did a Schumacher'.

"I know there are conspiracy theories, but you will not find a more honest driver in grand prix racing than Nico," he told the Daily Mail.

Nico Rosberg, Mercedes W05. (Photo: WRi2)

Even so, the FIA investigated the incident for hours.

"It was not black and white. It took a long time. We wanted to be sure and thorough," said Warwick.

"I have been around a long time and seen people try to pull the wool over my eyes. Did I have doubts in my mind? Of course I did. But he gave me the answers I needed," he added.

But Lewis Hamilton suggested he saw data late on Saturday that convinced him that Nico Rosberg had acted maliciously.

The FIA was not convinced, concluding from detailed telemetry that Rosberg braked only 10 metres later than he had on his pole lap, and was travelling only 6kph faster, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport.

FIA race director Whiting said: "And both Mercedes drivers braked 8 metres later at Ste Devote than they had before. They were just going flat out."

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff commented: "We will never know if Nico acted deliberately or not. But we give him absolutely 100 per cent the presumption of innocence. When you are pushing to the maximum, mistakes can happen."

Nonetheless, Charlie Whiting has an idea that would stop this sort of controversy from recurring in the future.

He said: "Why don't we extend qualifying by one minute when a yellow flag is shown in the last three minutes? It would give affected drivers the chance to try again."

The United States Department of Energy has proposed lending money to Alcoa to expand aluminum production at a Tennessee factory, setting the stage for the first loan to a supplier under a dormant $25 billion fund.

Tesla received a far less rousing recommendation from bond raters at Standard and Poor's Corp. -- which assigned the electric-vehicle maker a B- rating, or 'junk' status.

Fiat and BMW may miss the EU's tougher CO2 target that takes effect in 2021, according to a study, which said that Honda, Hyundai, Mazda and Suzuki also could struggle to cut pollution in time to avoid fines.

John Hennessey and his merry band of speed-crazed engineers in Texas have come up with another upgrade for the 2014 C7 Corvette Stingray.

Volvo revealed the first interior shots of its new XC90 SUV on Tuesday.

The state of West Bengal's Labour Department has called a meeting for tomorrow (28 May) in an attempt to avert the demise of the 1950s Morris Oxford-based Hindustan Ambassador which has been in production since 1957 after the Indian automaker bought production rights and tooling from the British Motor Corporation.

Hyundai, which has championed smaller engines, dethroned Honda as the greenest automaker in the United States, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Mini recruited skate boarding legend Tony Hawk to jump over its classic Cooper Hardtop in a stunt that has been a hit online.

Canadian automotive supplier Linamar is unlikely to meet its goal of almost tripling sales by 2020 due to capital costs and labor shortages, CEO Linda Hasenfratz said.

The new Volvo XC90 will have a large tablet-like touchscreen in the center console to control the premium SUV's in-car features, following a trend that Tesla started with its Model S.

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