‘The engines are absolutely fine’ - DennisRon Dennis has played down a troubled start to McLaren`s season. After a winter of performance and reliability concern, the silver team hit the Bahrain track on Friday and suffered an electrics failure on Kimi Raikkonen`s MP4-21.
Juan Pablo Montoya, too, complained about a lacklustre Mercedes-Benz, as the pair shrank to 12th and 13th on the opening timesheets.
But Ron Dennis denied his Colombian driver`s moan that the V8 unit might have to be changed.
“The engines are absolutely fine,” he said. “When you run at lower revs to protect the engine, that does make the engine a little uncomfortable to drive. But (Kimi and Juan`s engines) are exactly the same.
Our underlying performance is quite good.”
Dennis protested that Raikkonen`s electric box failure was the first such breakage in `years`.
“I`m not too concerned,” he added. “It`s not too serious.”
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