Abiteboul also shed light on the fact that McLaren shunned a proposal to co-operate more closely with Renault and rather opted for a return to Mercedes power, thus leaving the French Formula 1 engine supplier without customers. Abiteboul told Racer in a recent interview, “I think we would have been stronger together on the basis of our approach to the partnership 'So, obviously without that, we are weaker than what we could have been and it’s a lost opportunity, but it’s not like it’s something that is putting us massively in a different position to the position we are in today. “Right now there is nothing happening between us and McLaren on these types of things, so there is no...
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