McLaren and Honda are working hard to make their new works collaboration gel. Back together in 2015 after more than two decades apart, the British team hailed Honda's return as simply the next chapter in an ultra-successful, title-winning tale. But that was before the silver cars lined up dead last in Melbourne, and McLaren-Honda has only been spared a repeat of that ignominy in Malaysia because backmarkers Manor have been granted an exemption from the 107pc qualifying rule. However, drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button insist the MP4-30 is now taking giant strides forwards. "As a team we are now 90 per cent," explained team boss Eric Boullier, according to the Spanish daily...
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