Jenson Button has urged McLaren-Honda to prioritise performance over reliability. Team boss Eric Boullier said recently that, as works partner Honda's awkward return to the sport continues, the ongoing troubles will soon begin to affect preparations for the 2016 season. At a sponsor event this week, Button agrees: "You can't finish this year two seconds behind Mercedes and expect to challenge them in 2016." Much of Honda's problem in 2015 has been reliability, but the MP4-30 package remains badly off the pace, and the biggest issue is clearly engine power. "We want to finish races and we want reliability to be good but personally I would rather see the improvement in pace and...
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