The danger of underestimating McLaren
It took McLaren just three races to go from testing disaster to grand prix winner - but Tony Dodgins was not surprised to see the Woking team pull another miracle out of the bag
You write off McLaren at your peril, as several of us have learned to our cost over time.
The first time I recall the technical direction of the team being seriously called into question was 2003 - the year of the McLaren that never was, MP4-18.
Everyone had been severely spanked by Ferrari the previous year (Michael Schumacher: 144 points; the first non-Ferrari driver Juan Pablo Montoya: 50) and so McLaren had decided it needed to go radical.
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