According to racing director Eric
Boullier, McLaren are preparing
for a tough season-opening weekend in Melbourne and arrive with a number of unknowns. Jenson Button and Fernando
Alonso completed a combined 780 laps over two weeks in Barcelona but the
Honda-powered team failed to complete their full pre-season testing programme.
McLaren are set to trial their 2016 package in Friday's practice at the Australian
GP, and Boullier said “It's been a very
long winter, and I know that I can speak on behalf of the whole McLaren-Honda
team when I say that we can't wait to go racing again! We are certainly a step
ahead of where we were this time last year in terms of preparation. That said,
we didn't manage to complete our final configuration and set-up work for the
first race, so we go to Melbourne with a number of unknowns. It won't be an
easy start to the weekend in that sense, since we'll need to concentrate on
setting the car up for each session and readying the final specification of our
package as soon as we get to Albert Park”
The results of the MP4-31 from testing seem to point at improved
reliability, but it still remains to be seen where McLaren will find themselves
in the pecking order. The team endured their worst season in 30 years in 2015
and finished the second pre-season test with a time which was two seconds
adrift of Ferrari's leading pace.
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