McLaren is hopeful reliability issues have been resolved McLaren believes it has addressed the reliability issues that hampered pre-season in time for this weekend’s Formula 1 curtain raiser in Australia. The Woking operation completed the least mileage of all the teams over the two Barcelona tests after being struck by a series of issues with its MCL33. Problems have arrived despite a much publicised switch from the unreliable Honda engines to Renault, which had hoped it would be a solution to the team’s pace deficit to its Mercedes and Ferrari powered opposition. Racing director Eric Boullier admits testing had not gone to plan but is confident the team’s reliability concerns have...
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