
Why McLaren risks long-term failure
Despite its dreadful 2015, McLaren is confident its partnership with Honda will work out. But, as BEN ANDERSON warns, too long without success in Formula 1 can be costly, as Williams knows
McLaren-Honda's terrible results in Formula 1 are regularly making headlines at the moment, but in truth the team has been on a relatively poor run for several seasons now.
Sport is always a sequence of highs and lows, but a sustained run of failure can be enormously damaging for F1 teams, particularly when commercial arrangements mean their budgets are directly affected by what happens on track.
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