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McLaren gave Honda six months for turnaround – Brown
McLaren’s executive director Zak Brown says his team gave Honda six months to find a turnaround to be competitive in 2018 and tried “many different things and many different ways” but when performance wasn’t forthcoming it gave the team no option. After a tough start to its collaboration with Honda as its power unit supplier in 2015 and 2016 it became apparent the Japanese manufacturer’s new philosophy and design approach for this season hadn’t found the predicted gains. Worse was to follow during pre-season testing when McLaren was continually hit by reliability issues which were set to plague its F1 campaign. With a frustrated squad, and a furious star driver in Fernando...
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