Is It Too Early for McLaren to Shift Focus to 2015 and Its New Honda Engines?

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Published: April 22, 2014

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The 2013 Formula One season was McLaren's worst since 1980, before Ron Dennis first became team principal.

Now, Dennis is back, but the results have not significantly improved. In Australia, Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button did score the team's first podiums since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix, but it has been straight downhill since then.

As painful as it may be, should the team now start shifting its focus to 2015 and its new engine deal with Honda?



"If you think that's good enough you're not on the same page as me," Dennis told his team after the double-podium in Melbourne, per The Guardian's Paul Weaver. "If you think that's good enough then leave!"

Unfortunately for McLaren, that may be as good as it gets this year.

Yes, technically just over 20 percent of the season has been completed. More realistically, though, the championship chase is over—at least for the 10 teams that are not Mercedes.

The Silver Arrows of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have finished first and second in three of the four races this year. In the fourth, Hamilton qualified on pole but a failing power unit forced him to retire on Lap 2, leaving Rosberg to cruise to victory.

McLaren, meanwhile, has failed to score a single point in the last two races, matching their total of pointless races from all of last year.

During McLaren's disastrous 2013 campaign, the team's worst result in a race that both drivers finished was 11th and 12th in Montreal. Last weekend at the Chinese Grand Prix was worse. Button finished 11th and Magnussen was 13th.



McLaren is mired in fifth place in the Constructors' standings, already 111 points behind Mercedes (and even 11 points behind Force India). Shifting resources to the 2015 car would give the team a useful head start and ensure their new Honda power unit is integrated seamlessly into next year's chas...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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