(McLaren Honda)
McLaren Racing Director Eric Boullier has slammed critics of
the team who feel that they should be instantly successful with their new power
unit supplier Honda.
Honda returned to Formula One for the first time since 2008
with McLaren at the start of this season however the Woking based outfit
struggled with different technical issues over the course of winter testing
while they also had difficulties in the opening Grand Prix of the season.
Last time out in Bahrain, Fernando Alonso came close to
scoring the McLaren Honda partnership’s first point of the season as he ended
the race in eleventh place however Jenson Button failed to start the race due
to technical issues with his MP4-30. The outfit never expected to be
competitive straight away and stated before the start of the season that they
were just looking for reliability in the opening Grand Prix of the season.
Speaking to Autosport, Boullier stated that nobody in the
team is happy with the current situation that the team find themselves in,
qualifying at the back of the grid and their race results.
However Boullier has stated that Fernando Alonso and Jenson
Button are also not happy with the current situation within the team but that
they know what is coming down the line in terms of the development of the
MP4-30.
The Frenchman made the comparison of Brawn GP and Mercedes
and how when the German manufacturer took over the team it took four years
before they won the championship. Boullier has stated that it may not take four
years for McLaren and Honda to be successful but he said that it is what it is.
© Ben Johnston 2015
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