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Vandoorne believes McLaren have been going backwards!

Vandoorne believes McLaren have been going backwards!

28-08-2018 13:19
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Bobby Vincent

McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne believes that his side have been going downhill since the Australian Grand Prix.

Vandoorne was extra ambitious last weekend at his home race in Belgium, but finished in P15, which was last out of the drivers who managed to finish in an action-packed race at Spa-Francorchamps.

It's been a poor season for Vandoorne personally, and also a poor season for McLaren as a team and unfortunately for the Belgian driver - he has consistently found himself the recipient of the team's reliability issues.

"It's difficult to get a worse weekend," Vandoorne admitted to Belgian daily La Derniere Heure. "We've seen the performance we have is very far away from being good. There's not really an explanation.

"The reality is that we haven't progressed since the start of the year, we haven't progressed at all compared to the others."

"After winter testing we were promised a lot of developments that never happened. Australia was our best race and ever since, we're just going backwards."

McLaren insist they are trying everything they can in order to make their MCL33 better for the drivers, but Vandoorne says that the prospect looks bleak and this weekend they face another power-dominated track at Monza.

"We are not going to get better in the last races, only in Singapore can we still hope to get points."