McLaren 'studying options'

While Mercedes W08 completed more than 1000 laps in Barcelona (Spain), the McLaren MCL32 was only able to cover 425. The Honda block was only installed on the car British, the Japanese engine manufacturer's engineers were only able to rely on the data collected with the Woking team while those from Mercedes had more than 2600 laps to analyze.

The situation seems so worrying for McLaren that the latest speculation indicates that the British structure would consider urgently finding a new Power Unit and that it would have contacted Mercedes which powered it before the return of the Japanese firm.

“Winter testing was difficult and disappointing, admitted a McLaren spokesperson on Sky Sports. We work with Honda to correct defects and deficiencies. In association with Honda, we are studying options, but we will not comment on media rumors. »

The British channel clarified that Mercedes did not wish to respond to this subject.