Boullier frees Magnussen: “I won't stop him from racing elsewhere”

We are practically back to square one. Exactly as happened last season, McLaren, which has yet to resolve its problems regarding the Honda power unit, finds itself at discuss the pilots. After Alonso sponsored Button's reconfirmation to the team just last week, the 2016 line up of the British team may not undergo changes.

The decision to rely on two Experienced pilots it is to be found in the disastrous season experienced so far by McLaren Honda. The long-dreamed of return of the duo to the queen category of Motorsport, at least until now, has not given the desired results with the Japanese engineer busy solving the problems of the power unit while the English team, precisely because of reliability and deficit regarding power and speed, he is unable to best express them chassis goodness of the MP4-30.

One of the very young people from the McLaren academy who dreams of getting into a Formula 1 is Kevin Magnussen. The Dane, who played a season as a starter with the Woking team in 2015 before giving way to Fernando Alonso, this year is covering the role of reserve pilot, who has never hidden that it is too tight for him. Kevin wants to race in Formula 1, he wants to return to being a regular driver and, if this opportunity presents itself to him, McLaren will certainly not stop him from making his dreams come true: "Magnussen is a McLaren driver and he never hid the fact that he would have liked to race in Formula 1 with our team – commented Eric Boullier – If there is a chance in McLaren, and I'm not the only one to decide, he will have priority over any other driver otherwise I would never stop him to run somewhere else, obviously."

Yet in case the Dane decides to leave McLaren the seats free for 2016 there wouldn't be many. With Lotus which, with Grosjean in the direction of Haas, will most likely promote Palmer, if the US team actually chooses a driver in Ferrari's orbit to join the Frenchman, Kevin's possibilities can literally be counted on the fingers.

Eleonora Ottonello