News Details

New McLaren-Honda is '50 percent behind' its plan

Reliability issues continue to hamper development, but drivers seem happy with MP4-30. McLaren racing director Eric Boullier has admitted that the development plan of its 2015 Honda-powered Formula One car is '50 percent behind' where he planned it would be. At the halfway point of pre-season testing, teething problems with Honda's brand new V6 power unit and hybrid ancillaries has seriously affected its capability to run for anything other than a few laps at a time. "We did maybe 50 percent of what we wanted to do," said Boullier of the testing programme so far. "We have 12 days to get ready, so if we miss half then we won't be ready 100 per cent. So our development – in...
Full Story »
10y ago from Motorsport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

McLaren '50 percent behind'

Declaring McLaren to be '50 percent behind' schedule, Eric Boullier...
10y ago from PlanetF1.com

McLaren-Honda troubles continue in Barcelona

McLaren-Honda's troubled pre-season continued on Thursday as the second...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

McLaren troubles continue in Barcelona

February 19, 2015 (GPracingplus/GMM).- McLaren-Honda's troubled...
10y ago from GPRacingPlus.com

McLaren troubles continue in Barcelona

Feb.19 McLaren-Honda's troubled pre-season continued on Thursday as the...
10y ago from Motorsport.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Ryan Hunter-Reay joins Arrow McLaren for 2026 Indy 500

Arrow McLaren has announced that veteran Ryan Hunter-Reay will join the...

RLL locks in Louis Foster with extended IndyCar...

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced an extension to its contract...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Brazil issue fresh injury update on Gabriel Magalhaes...

The Brazil national team has issued a statement with regards to the injury...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Interlull ‘On This Day'

Morning, it's very Interlully, so let's do a bit of ‘On this day' to...
9h ago from Arseblog.com

Arsenal officials in Spain to watch LaLiga winger with...

Representatives from Premier League side Arsenal have reportedly travelled...
5h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal told what they need to do if they want to sign...

Antoine Semenyo is one of the most sought-after players going into the...
21h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.