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Title impossible for ‘customer’ F1 team like Williams – McLaren

Ron Dennis has admitted he 'definitely' expected McLaren-Honda to be performing better than it is at the mid-season point of 2015. 'We had every reason to think that we would be in a better situation than the one we find ourselves in,' the Woking team's supremo explained in the latest edition of Autosprint, an Italian specialist magazine. But Dennis insists that switching from Mercedes, the field-leading ‘power unit' makers, to the struggling Honda camp was the right choice for the future. 'Our goal is to win the world championship,' he said, 'and that objective would not be within our reach if we continued with a customer engine. 'Today we are not at the level we want to be, but I...
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