McLaren experienced their worst ever season in 2015, coming in second to last with the under powered Honda unit.
McLaren experienced their worst ever season in 2015, coming in second to last with the under powered Honda unit. The company is now hoping 2016 will yield in better results as team racing director Eric Boullier suggests. McLaren in much better shape to race this year ahead of 1st race of Formula1 according to him.
Eric Boullier
Boullier said: “Last year we couldn’t do anything on the car. Checking nothing, actually. At least this year we went through a lot – job list, to-do lists, and check lists. In terms of systems and even the car itself, we pushed some limits on some new designs we had on the car. Some of them failed, some of them not, which is a normal process of testing, but I am happy with the results. At least now we have covered this mileage over the last eight days, so we are much more prepared and comfortable. We are also feeding back into the machine more data, so we know where to go and it’s going to be a big boost to us for development.”
McLaren’s full-spec 2016 car will not appear until the first practice session of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix later this month as the company had prepared a lot of parts which could not be tested on this year’s car.
“If you ask me for a date, a commitment or something, we can’t say anything and we don’t want to say anything,” said Boullier. “We have a comparison, which is a lap time, when we are obviously competing in the same conditions. From that point we know where we are and what we want to achieve and we will see where we go. Right now we don’t want to create words, we are not in a position to give any accurate predictions, so we don’t want to have any wrong expectations.”