Even though it is no secret that Formula One factories are busy places around the holiday season, McLaren have now revealed how intense its end to 2015 has been as it tried to recover delays in the build programma of the MP4-31. The main issue was the schedule was a late-in-the-day change to the 2016 calendar. The original schedule had the opening race in Australia pinned to an April 10th date; however, a revision to the calendar saw it brought forward by three weeks to March 20th. “Our entire build programme wasn’t lined up for that!” Simon Roberts, McLaren's Operations Director said on the McLaren website. 'So we knew we had a problem to solve. In terms of our design and...
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