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Boullier: McLaren are 50 per cent behind

For some of Formula 1's top teams, 2015 is a case of putting the troublesome first year of the new turbo V6 era in the past and setting sights on closing the big gap to Mercedes. It is bad news for McLaren, the British grandee who struggled last year and relished the prospect of kicking off a new works collaboration with Honda in 2015. That has now begun, but the fledgling McLaren-Honda project is struggling with its innovative MP4-30 car as returning Japanese engineers discover the full complexity of the sport's new ‘power unit' era. Team boss Eric Boullier admitted in Barcelona on Friday that, with exactly half of the 12 days of winter testing now over, 'We are 50 per cent behind'....
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