Vandoorne slates McLaren car

The departing Stoffel Vandoorne has slated McLaren's MCL33 but claims he will "give everything" in his last races with the team...

McLaren announced that Vandoorne would be leaving the team at the end of the season, last week, and that junior driver Lando Norris would be the Belgian's replacement.

Vandoorne too, was once a highly rated young driver, but with a season of failing to meet McLaren's demands, they will be parting company with him.

"Although I'm very much looking to the future since I confirmed I won't be racing for McLaren next season, I'm also 100 per cent determined to give everything for the remaining races this season," Vandoorne explained.

"Both the team and I are pusing very hard to get the best results we can with what we have." 

Vandoorne has consistently blamed his performances on the MCL33 - which is definitely been worse this season for the Woking-based team.

Even McLaren's CEO Zak Brown admitted to the car not reaching their standards.

"We continue to push, but unfortunately we have built an extremely poor car that does not respond to changes," the McLaren CEO admitted. "Other teams developed better than us while we seemed to have regressed. But we will not give up because we are identifying the problems we have and trying to solve them.

"2019 must be an intermediate step but we probably will not have our full technical capacity until the 2020 car arrives."