McLaren Formula 1 team and its engine supplier, Honda have denied several stories and rumours that have appeared recently.
Adapted from GMM Firstly, Honda has denied that one of its engineers admitted the Japanese manufacturer is unlikely to power McLaren to race wins either this year or in 2016. The Spanish newspaper Marca quoted an engineer by the name of Ryo Mukomoto this week as answering "No" when asked if McLaren-Honda will win races in 2015. Honda hit back at the news, saying it was "surprised" to read the quotes at "a supposedly reputable Spanish website". "Mr Mukomoto has not worked on our F1 project," the spokesperson told us, "nor has he done an interview with the website concerned, or with any other international media. "The quotes that have been erroneously attributed to him are inaccurate, and we regard it as a shame that our engineer has been incorrectly exposed in this way." McLaren Meanwhile, writing for the Daily Mail, correspondent Jonathan McEvoy claimed that, at the post-Spanish Grand Prix debrief, McLaren supremo Ron Dennis was heavily critical of team boss Eric Boullier. "He said that Boullier had had 'a good kick in the ar*e", McEvoy revealed, adding that other staff were also told "they were not working hard enough". But a McLaren spokesman told us on Wednesday that Dennis' remarks were "reported out of context" and actually intended to be "humorous". "His (Dennis') rhetoric can sometimes be challenging, but it is always inspirational," the spokesman said. "Ron massively appreciates the hard work currently being done by all at Woking and Sakura (Japan), and he and Eric, together, are making the structural and operational changes that will take McLaren-Honda back to the front."
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