Honda has no plans to run its new Formula 1 engine on track before the start of pre-season testing in 2015.
The Japanese manufacturer will return to F1 as engine supplier to McLaren for the second season of the new regulations and is scheduled to fire up its engine on the dyno for the first time this autumn.
But contrary to rumours it might take advantage of not competing in 2014 to test on track either in an F1 car or a test mule, Honda motorsport boss Yasuhisa Arai insists it has no intention to do so.
"It is a rumour and people have talked about it but we do not have any such plans," Arai told AUTOSPORT.