McLaren has confirmed that the radical swollen nose fitted to the MP4-26 in Barcelona on Tuesday will not be raced this season.<\/p>\n
“The equipment was for testing purposes only,” said the British team.<\/p>\n
Jenson Button smiled as he told Auto Motor und Sport: “Unfortunately it’s not a new trick that’s going to make us faster.”<\/p>\n
There are grave concerns about McLaren’s readiness for the looming 2011 season, with BBC commentator and former team driver Martin Brundle describing the car as “a mess”.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t slow down,” he told the Telegraph after seeing the car in action on the Spanish track recently.\u00a0 “It didn’t turn in.\u00a0 It couldn’t get the power down.\u00a0 Clearly they have a fundamental issue.”<\/p>\n
Officially, Button hailed the team’s “progress” on Tuesday, but he then told reporters that he is not expecting to win a third consecutive Australian grand prix.<\/p>\n
“I would be surprised if we can match the Red Bull and the Ferrari when we get to Melbourne,” he admitted.<\/p>\n
He is quoted by Finland’s Turun Sanomat: “If we have the third fastest car at the opening race, it will be a good start to the season.”<\/p>\n
\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" McLaren has confirmed that the radical swollen nose fitted to the MP4-26 in Barcelona on Tuesday will not be raced this season. “The equipment was for testing purposes only,” said the British team. Jenson Button smiled as he told Auto Motor und Sport: “Unfortunately it’s not a new trick that’s going to make us faster.” …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,153,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}