Ahead of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, McLaren-Honda driver Fernando Alonso suggested that his current team needs to improve drastically if he is to stay next year.
As of right now, neither him nor his teammate Stoffel Vandoorne has scored a single point in the 2017 Formula 1 season, with Honda’s hybrid engines still down on power compared to their rivals.
“We have to win,” said Alonso during a recent press conference in Montreal. “If we are winning before September or something like that, when I make a decision, I will stay.”
The Spaniard did back off slightly when pushed to confirm that he will definitely leave if McLaren can’t get back to their winning ways this year.
“I mean, you never know. You cannot be 100 percent now in June about a decision for next year that I don’t even start to consider,” added the former F1 champ.
During his first stint with McLaren in 2007, Alonso won four races, whereas now, since his return, his best result has been P5 on three separate occasions.
“I joined this project because I wanted to be world champion and we are not in that position, so if you don’t see things changing and you are not in a competitive position, maybe you change project.”
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