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Written by Joe Holding
This is an important year for McLaren-Honda. Their 2015 season was dominated by embarrassing retirements, radio outbursts and a power deficit that made Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso a pair of sitting ducks on anything that vaguely resembled a straight.Promisingly for the team though, reports over the winter have suggested that Honda have fixed the flaws that held them back last year, with some going as far as saying that the upgrades will put them right back in the mix come the first race in Melbourne next month.Just how accurate the speculation is remains to be seen, although Alonso himself claimed that a lap-time gain of two-and-a-half seconds was possible during the off-season.McLaren will have a much better idea of where they stand after the first pre-season test in Barcelona, which begins at the Circuit de Catalunya next week.
Date written: 15 Feb 2016
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This is an important year for McLaren-Honda. Their 2015 season was dominated by embarrassing retirements, radio outbursts and a power deficit that made Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso a pair of sitting ducks on anything that vaguely resembled a straight.Promisingly for the team though, reports over the winter have suggested that Honda have fixed the flaws that held them back last year, with some going as far as saying that the upgrades will put them right back in the mix come the first race in Melbourne next month.Just how accurate the speculation is remains to be seen, although Alonso himself claimed that a lap-time gain of two-and-a-half seconds was possible during the off-season.McLaren will have a much better idea of where they stand after the first pre-season test in Barcelona, which begins at the Circuit de Catalunya next week.
Date written: 15 Feb 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2143
