Eric Boullier says he laid bare his fears to McLaren's hierarchy about Honda's 2017 engine as early as February amid an expectation the team would go "backwards" and could face a staff exodus. What turned out to be McLaren's final season in partnership with Honda was not officially confirmed until September but the writing appeared on the wall during pre-season at Barcelona, with team chief Boullier telling Sky F1 at the second test that they were "running out of patience" with their sustained lack of performance. Nine months on and, in a reflective end-of-year interview with F1's official website in which he recounts the timeline of the torturous decision to split,...
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