As the McLaren team packed up in the twilight at Albert Park, back at its Surrey headquarters work was continuing feverishly to try to remedy the major problems which have left the new MP4-28 struggling to compete in the midfield let alone at the front. The extent of the seriousness of the predicament was underlined by both lead driver Jenson Button and team boss Martin Whitmarsh. Button, who said his ninth-place finish was better than he feared, admitted: "We all know the way things are and there is an understanding that it is not OK." And Whitmarsh, who did not even try to pretend over the weekend that the challenges facing McLaren were anything other than huge, told...
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