McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne was out performed by team mate Fernando Alonso once again yesterday as his disappointing season continues.
Vandoorne disappointed once again yesterday in the qualifying for the British Grand Prix.
The McLaren driver failed to make it beyond Q1 on Saturday and blamed it on the car.
Vandoorne's step up to F1 in 2016 has proved to be a huge step for the Belgian driver.
He replaced Jenson Button in September 2016, to partner Alonso for the 2017 season.
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"Today was really difficult," Vandoorne admitted to GrandPrix247.com following his disaster in qualifying on Saturday.
"The car was undriveable today and we don't really understand why at the moment.
"I think we were actually in much better shape than we looked (on Friday) but since this morning something has been feeling fundamentally wrong with the car and we've not been able to really find what the problem was before qualifying.
"In qualifying as well the feeling was pretty terrible. Very bad.
"Nothing more we could do, so it's very frustrating. I felt very uncomfortable, no pace at all.
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"(It was) impossible to really drive and to do anything.
"It's a shame to come out of qualifying like this."
Vandoorne is being consistently outperformed by his Spanish team mate Alonso and quite substantially as well.
The Belgian will start four places below Alonso later on today, as he was nearly a second slower than Alonso.
On Friday, Vandoorne was eight tenths off Alonso in FP2, and the gap grew to a full second on Saturday (FP3).
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Vandoorne's quotes are just the latest criticism of McLaren in the unrest of the Woking-based side.
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