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McLaren has had 95 percent success rate with upgrades

McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says his Formula 1 team has achieved a 95 percent success rate with aerodynamic development of its car so far in 2017. The Woking-based team has endured a difficult start to the F1 season, thanks mainly to poor reliability and below-par performance from its Honda engine, and has yet to score a point after six races. But a significant upgrade ahead of May’s Spanish Grand Prix, including a raft of new aerodynamic parts on the MCL32 plus tweaks to Honda’s fuel and intake system worth 10bhp, allowed Fernando Alonso to qualify inside the top seven for the first time in 2017. McLaren introduced further updates for the last race in Monaco, where Stoffel...
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