Not going to get much better for McLaren – copied from SkyF1 site…
Are McLaren-Honda’s woes this season set to continue? Well according to Sky F1’s Martin Brundle, Honda’s big engine upgrade has been cancelled as it’s reliability has not improved.
The Woking-based team are the only team yet to score a point this season and have been severely handicapped by the unreliability and lack of power in the Honda power unit.
Already this season, Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne have recorded did not starts while Alonso has finished only one race, last time out in Spain, and Vandoorne has already taken grid penalties for exceeding the four penalty-free changes on parts of the power unit.
Honda had said they were hoping to have an upgraded engine by the middle of the season, with next month’s Canadian GP reported as a possible target, but Brundle claims that is now not happening.
“I head yesterday that the big upgrade that Honda had coming is not working and has been cancelled,” Brundle said after Practice One for the Monaco GP.