McLaren has unveiled its papaya and blue-liveried MCL33, as it prepares to welcome in a new era, following the truncation of its disastrous Honda partnership. McLaren opted to form a works partnership with Honda for 2015, rekindling the iconic late 1980s/early 1990s association, but a lack of reliability and performance hit its prospects. Honda overhauled its power unit concept for 2017 but was plagued by early problems, by which time the relationship proved irreparable, and McLaren began seeking an alternative for 2018. Having secured a best race result of only fifth, and twice finished a lacklustre ninth in the standings, across three years, McLaren ditched Honda in favour of Renault...
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