F1 | McLaren, reliability objective for the Barcelona tests: "We don't want to replicate the situation of last season"

Interviewed about McLaren's objectives regarding the next test session in Barcelona, ​​Zak Brown wanted to focus on the reliability of the future MCL34, underlining how the hope is not to fall into the same technical problems experienced during the sessions of last season.

During the tests last championship, we remember, Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne were unable to put together good mileage, an aspect which significantly slowed down the development of the MCL33. Brown, precisely in this sense, is hoping for a significantly different situation, given that for McLaren it is more fundamental than ever to run in view of the Australian GP.

Here are the words of Zak Brown: “One of the reasons, but not the only one, why we were unable to carry out rapid development was reliability. When you get off the truck during the Barcelona tests and you can't immediately bring out the performance due to problems related to the nuts or the overheating of some parts, the risk is that you focus all your attention on reliability, losing ground in terms of speed"

“During last year's tests we worked precisely in this direction and I think the team did an excellent job, given that in Australia we managed to place both cars in the points”, he added. “This year's objective, however, will be to start in a different way, immediately achieving a good mix between performance and reliability”.