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McLAREN CORRECTED YOUR FAULTS AND LOOKS FOR YOUR PRAYER

McLaren Racing Director Éric Boullier said the English team corrected all the setbacks seen during the pre-season just over a week ago in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The Woking squad suffered from crashes over the eight days of testing, and the MCL33 proved to be the most problematic car on the grid so far.The British's activities were interrupted by a problem with a wheel nut, exhaust, electric, hydraulic failures, oil leakage, and a breakdown of the turbo, which required an engine change in the second week of work in Catalonia. After the session, the car returned to the factory, where it was properly inspected.Now, the French official has ensured that all setbacks have been reviewed before embarking for Australia, where F1 starts the 2018 season this weekend. "We did not have the reliability we were expecting in the collective tests, but all the issues we face have already been resolved at the plant," Boullier said in a statement."There is a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes to ensure that we do not leave any stone in our quest to extract the maximum pace from our package in the first race of the year. We do not expect miracles to be resolved from day to night. that we know is that we will do our best this weekend. "The 2018 season will be the first of the unprecedented partnership between McLaren and Renault. The English team relinquished the agreement with Honda last year because of the lack of performance of the Japanese engines and now bet on the tie with the French to return to fight at the top of the table.Therefore, Fernando Alonso already sees the Australian GP as the first real challenge of the MCL33-Renault set. "Australia will be our first real challenge so we have to work hard all weekend to gather all the ingredients. No one can predict how other teams will behave, and that only adds to the excitement," added the Spaniard. , owner of the third best in the general preseason table.




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