They need to dig him up again. Would at least give them something else to blame other than Honda if he were back.
Yeah the whole "stage a coup because we finished 5th in the constructors" thing must be feeling a bit awkward now for Ron.
expected to be more competitive than it was at Singapore's Marina Bay circuit last weekend, and Alonso and team-mate Jenson Button retired with gearbox problems. It was the 10th time in 13 races the team has failed to score this season, leaving it ninth in the F1 constructors' championship with 17 points, nine adrift of Sauber and 446 behind leaders Mercedes. "I think [in terms of] reliability we are not on top of some of the issues we have in the car," said Alonso. "But this is normal, the project is too young, we have now the same mileage of the Mercedes team in Australia. "So definitely we are in our winter testing still, and these issues should not happen in race 13 or race 14, but we are a little bit behind the pack. "We could have achieved some points for the team [in Singapore] so it is a little bit disappointing, but that is the way it is. "It's just a reminder that we need to work harder than ever because we lack performance plus reliability, so these two things combined is a lot of work to do and we want to do that. "To score points, first you have to finish the race and we didn't manage [that] so we need to think in the next one." Alonso refused to be downbeat, adding this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka - which will be Honda's first home race since renewing its F1 partnership with McLaren - provided the motivation to keep pushing. "I think Singapore was our best chance [of a good result] to be honest, because of the track layout," he said. "But in Japan we'll try again because, it's the home grand prix for Honda so hopefully we can do something special there.
They really do look like they are having fun NOT!!!!! They are probably thinking those cars are faster than their McHonda's.
Funniest thing I've seen in this forum for a while - and yes, that's a compliment to the forum as well as yourself!
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...ic-on-mclarens-prospects-for-final-2015-races "It is not a surprise anymore - this has been processed in February! When you are five seconds off the pace in Australia, you don't think you arrive on the podium in Suzuka," the Spaniard said." So much for "we won't win the first race, but we might win the last"
Just watching the 2nd practice on BBC and one commentator has just said that the testing rules ban putting the engine/power unit in any other chassis to test on road/track!!! So that does shed a bit more light onto why Honda and Renault have had difficulty developing. Yes they can dyno the engines which is fairly good but transient condition testing is very difficult. They are using simulators but sims need to be validated against real world. Without dedicated testing the teams can't fully instrument an engine to assist in the sim validation. This does go somewhere to show how difficult a job both Honda and Renault have to catchup.
