(McLaren Honda)
McLaren-Honda’s Jenson Button stated that there is a lot of
hard work to be done but that the team knew that coming into the season after a
difficult opening day in Melbourne for the Woking based outfit which saw both
Button and team mate Kevin Magnussen suffer mechanical issues in Free Practice
One with Magnussen suffering a crash in the second practice session.
Button completed 27 laps in the afternoon session setting
the 13th fastest time of the day albeit 3.6s slower than Nico
Rosberg in the Mercedes.
The Woking based outfit endured a horrendous winter however
there is light at the end of the tunnel as Ron Dennis believes that it will
take until at least the Chinese Grand Prix for the new McLaren Honda
partnership to find its feet.
Button has also stated that the MP4-30 is a great car to
drive it just needs to be more reliable. The 2009 world champion is hopeful
that the team won’t be lining up on the last row of the grid for Sunday’s race
at the Albert Park Circuit. Button revealed that McLaren and Honda are working
as one to solve the issues as they go and he hopes that the team can be
competitive rather than later.
Honda came into this season having missed out on a year of
development of the 1.6 litre V6 turbo charged power units so for the time being
at least are playing catch up to Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault.
Button is expecting qualifying to be tricky tomorrow and as
for targets he said that the team will be concentrating on collecting data that
can be used to develop the car.
© Ben Johnston 2015
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