New engine but ongoing disappointment for McLaren, the second most successful team in Formula 1 history, who hope to put an end to three years of misery using Honda-made motors by ditching the Japanese engine manufacturer and partnering with Renault as a customer team. The move, however, has been anything but trouble-free so far as McLaren continued to struggle despite the change to Renault power units during two weeks of preseason testing in Spain, which ended on Friday. Technical mishaps limited McLaren to the fewest laps of the 10 teams running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. McLaren logged 599 total laps over eight days. Defending champion Mercedes led with 1,039. Toro Rosso,...
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