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2017 McLaren Analysis: An Unmitigated Disaster

< ► > Zero wins. Zero podiums. Zero hope. Thanks to an engine as underpowered as it was unreliable, the final year of the McLaren-Honda experiment was an unmitigated disaster. Season Summary After a brutal first season back with Honda in 2015, 2016 had shown marked improvement in the fortunes of McLaren – alas, 2017 turned out to be more like the former than the latter. Racking up the engine failures in a fashion that would be comical if it weren’t so sad, the once-great team couldn’t even muster half of last year’s points total. Whether McLaren had a chassis to compete for wins or not (and it certainly looked the part at high-downforce circuits like Monaco and...
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