F1 | Boullier: “Alonso is happy with the new McLaren”

Eric boullier sees Fernando Alonso happy with the McLaren MCL33, although he stresses that it's too early to know what the new car's true potential is. On the first day of test di formula 1 the boss of Woking, despite the accident on the way Spanish, he wanted to underline the feeling that the Asturian had with the single-seater right from the start.

The budget for this first day is positive: “Fernando seems to be happy with the car: you know him, when he feels he can be more competitive he always wants more, and this is a good sign,” he said today. “It seems like the car is fine, we still have to work on the set-up, it's a new car and it's still the presentation spec, we'll bring new parts into testing and test here,” he continued. The French he avoided talking about goals for the season so as not to generate false expectations: “I expect a lot – from the partnership with Renault – but we won't create expectations, first we need to understand where we are and today is only the first day. It's still early. We need to give feedback to the Woking headquarters and see if the numbers correspond to the performances,” he explained, remaining focused on short-term objectives.

The team leader noted that the problem had by Alonso the morning didn't didn't compromise the work program insurmountably: “The only bad thing today is that it cost us some time on the track, but we got back to our program, we got it back to keep running.” Then the hope for these days: "When it rains you can collect less information, especially on the aerodynamic level, but we can still work hard despite the rain", he concluded enthusiastically".