The departure from Honda’s F1 project of Yasuhisa Arai had tongues wagging in the Barcelona paddock this week. Rumours have been swirling that McLaren chiefs Eric Boullier and Ron Dennis ...
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Humiliating 2015 ‘good for McLaren’ – boss
McLaren’s abysmal season was actually “good” for the team, boss Eric Boullier says. Following the hype of Honda’s return to F1 last year and the reunion of the formerly-dominant Anglo-Japanese ...
Read More »Dennis defends McLaren management
Ron Dennis has defended the management structure at McLaren. The Woking outfit’s supremo recently denounced Eddie Jordan as the “village idiot” of F1, after he suggested the bosses are one ...
Read More »McLaren offers ‘more resources’ to help Honda
McLaren has offered to help works engine partner Honda to end the current crisis before it becomes “embarrassing”. Team figures have put a brave and united face on the struggles ...
Read More »‘No plans’ yet for Button’s McLaren future
Just five races into 2015, attention is already returning to the issue of Jenson Button’s future. Kimi Raikkonen may be a few months older, but 35-year-old is the oldest driver ...
Read More »New McLaren ‘better than it seems’
It has been a tumultuous winter for the fledgling McLaren-Honda collaboration. The MP4-30 has been unreliable and uncompetitive, and now star driver Fernando Alonso is on the sidelines after his ...
Read More »McLaren-Honda working on cultural barriers – report
Horse power and downforce are not the only challenges taking place behind closed garage doors at McLaren-Honda this pre-season. A report in the Spanish sports daily Marca claims that although ...
Read More »FIA allows Honda to join engine ‘unfreeze’
Honda has been granted some engine development freedom for 2015. The Japanese manufacturer had argued to the FIA that being left out of 2014 suppliers Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari’s ‘unfreeze’ ...
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