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Boullier sure is the man for McLaren

Boullier sure is the man for McLaren

19-05-2018 10:57
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Jake Williams-Smith

Eric Boullier has reiterated his belief that he is the man to lead McLaren. Rumours around the paddock of late suggest that the Woking-based outfit could be on the lookout for a replacement. Boullier joined McLaren from Lotus in 2014.

"We don't want to comment much about what we are doing (internally)," said Boullier. "Obviously we are trying to be the best and being the best means also looking at how we can be more efficient in terms of our organisation.

"It's part of life for a Formula 1 team to keep looking at how to deliver better and more.

"In my past life I've been managing, rebuilding, restructuring a few teams and I won with all of them in any category there was.

"It's hard work. There's a lot of expectation obviously from McLaren and from a lot of people.

"I think I know my job and we need to make sure we can make it, deliver it on time. The timing needs to be the right time, not the wrong expectation.

"No orders are needed, we know what we need to do: we have to improve the reliability and we have to improve performance."