The Spaniard was thus continuing his positive communication strategy despite results falling well short of the expectations raised by the return of the McLaren-Honda partnership. He wants to focus on the positive aspect, having reached Q2, without dwelling on an ultimately modest final result: \u00ab This weekend has been a nice surprise so far, and the car seemed better today. We’ve taken a step forward in terms of performance. Everything seems to be moving in the right direction. Obviously, we will never be happy finishing our qualifying in Q2, but it’s a step forward. The whole team should be pleased with this result because they worked so hard to achieve it.<\/i> \u00bb<\/p>\n
In this context, ambitions can only be limited for the race: \u00ab Tomorrow (today), the goal will be to finish the race and bring both cars to the finish line.<\/i> \u00bb<\/p>\n
The reliability problems are indeed not over, as demonstrated by Jenson Button’s new mishap: \u00ab In qualifying, I don’t really know what happened. It seemed like Friday morning when everything shut down in the car. There was a loud noise, I pulled over and got out of the car. We’ve had a few problems this weekend, but the important thing is that we are improving.<\/i> \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
McLaren is starting to turn things around as Fernando Alonso managed to reach Q2 for the first time this season, finishing 14th. As for Jenson Button, he couldn’t record a time and will start last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":39466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[92,947,1404],"class_list":["post-13460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-bilan","tag-mclaren","tag-sakhir"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n