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McLaren-Honda braced for tough start to their new era

McLaren start the Formula 1 season in Australia with star signing Fernando Alonso absent and recovering from concussion, a Honda engine that has yet to run sweetly and a car that has spent more time in the garage than testing on track. Crisis? What crisis? The team's racing director Eric Boullier, a Frenchman with enough sangfroid to match any English stiff upper lip, is certainly not about to panic even if others are already predicting a long, hard slog ahead. 'It's true that we didn't do as many laps as we wanted. It's true that it's going to hurt the development of the car… but we will recover,' he assured reporters at the end of the final pre-season test in Barcelona. 'It's not...
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