Jackles-UK wrote: ↑28 Jan 2019, 03:45
You say that like McLaren didn’t try and move heaven, hell & high water in 2017 to try and run with a Mercedes PU for 2018 when they were negotiating a split with Honda. Mercedes were the ones who flatly refused - I assume it’s because they see McLaren as a title threat in a way that they don’t with Williams & Force India. Can’t see that opinion changing any time soon, despite McLaren’s recent maladies.
ill refute that TOTAL BULLSH*T story to the land of fairytales
http://www.espn.in/f1/story/_/id/218899 ... es-mclaren
Toto Wolff says Mercedes wanted to supply McLaren with engines in 2018 but negotiations dragged on for too long.
Wolff insists Mercedes was interested in a deal, but says he was not able to put the infrastructure in place to cater for a fourth customer team at such short notice.
"We wanted to give McLaren an engine, the problem is that it dragged on for a long time and we just didn't have the structure in place and the capacity to supply them an engine for 2018," Wolff told ESPN. "It was simply too late."
Asked if McLaren could return as a customer in the future, Wolff added: "You must never rule out supplying anybody in the future and this is why McLaren or anyone else in the future could be a partner."
please keep complete and utter lies away, and inform yourself better first.
Mercedes denied RedBull an engine, not Mclaren.
words from Toto Wolff himself.
So NO, Mclaren did NOT move heaven, hell and high water. That's quite frankly what their problem has been for the past years.
The only mentioning of Mercedes supposedly not willing to provide them was a hypothetical assumption made by Zak Brown claiming they (ferrari and mercedes) preferred seeing them at the back of the grid, and was nothing actually concrete but random talk. Hell, they still were convinced then they'd stay with Honda and Honda would turn things around and give them a winning engine.
The only team responsible for not having Mercedes is Mclaren themselves. They dragged it on for too long, and then couldn't get ANY engine. Not even the renault engine, as they were TOO LATE for that too. Who's fault would that be? ah yes, again, MCLAREN. The ONLY reason they have an engine in 2018 is because they managed to switch with Toro Rosso's Renault engine.