MCLAREN – BUSTED Wow. Expectations were unrealistically high before the season, but did anyone imagine the first year of the renewed McLaren-Honda partnership would play out quite as dismally as it did in 2015. For a team with the history of McLaren, ninth in the constructors’ championship – its worse finish since 1980 – and a measly 27 points was simply appalling, even if you take into account that Honda was playing catchup to rivals Mercedes, Ferrari, and Renault. The Japanese firm’s all-new V6 power unit was unreliable, slow, and fatally flawed from inception, with its underpowered ERS system – a problem which will require fundamental design tweaks over the...
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