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McLaren 'size zero' approach justified - Boullier

 XPB Images While many believe McLaren's extremely compacted engine bay design was over-ambitious and at the root of Honda's many power unit troubles, the Woking outfit's racing director Eric Boullier disagrees, and believes a bold design was its only viable solution to challenge Mercedes. From the outset, McLaren packaged the rear end of its MP4-30 contender extremely tight, forcing Honda engineers in turn to reduce the space between crucial components of its power unit, a design imperative which many believe had a bearing on the engine's persistent reliability and performance issues. Boullier however defended McLaren's non-conservative and "size zero" concept....
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