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McLaren say finishing in Melbourne is realistic target

McLaren are confident they will see the chequered flag in Melbourne, despite a woeful start to testing with the all new Honda V6 turbo power unit. Together again after more than two decades, the famous British team and the returning Japanese manufacturer notably struggled at the opening winter test at Jerez. McLaren chassis designer Matt Morris admitted to Auto Motor und Sport that testing so far has obviously not been perfect. 'The number of laps and the performance was disappointing,' he admitted, 'but we were able to tick off some things on the programme that showed us that our new car is good.' Morris said the correlation between the wind tunnel and the track, as well as cooling, was...
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