McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says that Stoffel Vandoorne is starting do the job expected of him after his solid run to seventh in the Singapore Grand Prix. Unusually, Vandoorne enjoyed a clean weekend with no lost sessions or grid penalties on a circuit that was always expected to be favourable to the McLaren-Honda package. The downside for the Woking team was that Fernando Alonso was an early retirement as a result of damage he received in the first-corner incident triggered by the two Ferrari drivers and Max Verstappen. “It’s a better weekend, but the result is a little bit leaving us bitter, with one car less,” Boullier told Motorsport.com. “Fernando did a mega start,...
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