McLaren racing director Eric Boullier has hit out at Honda for yet another failure in Canada at the weekend, adding to growing rumours that the partnership with the Japanese manufacturer may not survive the season.
The team, currently last in the championship standings, looked set to score their first point of the season with Fernando Alonso running tenth. But with two laps of the 70-lap race remaining, the Spaniard's engine gave up, forcing him to retire.
Boullier said it was hard to find the right words to express how disappointed the team are with "another gut-wrenching failure" of the Honda power unit.
"For the first time this season, running in 10th place within spitting distance of the flag, we dared to hope," said the Frenchman.
"OK, what we were daring to hope for were hardly rich pickings: a solitary world championship point for Fernando, who had driven superbly all afternoon, as he's driven superbly every race-day afternoon for the past two-and-a-half years. But, after so much toil and heartache, even that single point would have felt like a victory.
"And then came yet another gut-wrenching failure.
"It's difficult to find the right words to express our disappointment, our frustration and, yes, our sadness. So I'll say only this: it's simply, and absolutely, not good enough."
His comments come on the back of similar disappointment from team boss Zak Brown, who has hinted that the British outfit is heading for a divorce after suggesting other plans were being put in place.
