Xtreme Racing News

Let's give this another try with McLaren, who are on their third engine of the season and we're still trying to test. Yesterday during the lunch break, rookie Stoffel Vandoorne was reporting multiple issues at once and Honda confirmed that the were changing the engine again after finding yet another electrical issue, not similar to Mercedes AMG Petronas' issue last week. The team is back out in Spain today for day 2 of the second week of Formula One testing in advance to the Australian GP in a few weeks. The boss of Honda is telling media outlets that he's worried about the future of McLaren after Jenson Button retired and now they have Vandoorne and Fernando Alonso, who have both had their issues in Spain. As pracice is wrapping up soon, McLaren went back out after a red flag for Kimi Raikkonen, the team announced Alonso was going out for  "gathering aero data, testing tyre compounds and mapping the power unit". The aero data and tyre test was going to happen anyways but they want to map out the power unit since the engine was just put in yesterday night after the electrical poblem was found. Both the rookie and veteran are testing today. Earlier today the team retired early before Alonso came out, Honda denied reports that it had somehing to do with the engine this time and that everything is fine.