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Bob Fernley exits McLaren's Indycar program
I’m not sure about you but I was stunned to see McLaren fail to qualify for this year’s Indy 500 race. Alonso’s crash, the time it took to rebuild the car and the lack of pace were all shocking when Alonso compared similar efforts of the underfunded Juncos team who managed to rebuild a wrecked car and qualify for the race. Last November, McLaren announced they were bringing for Force India boss, Bob Fernley, in to run the Indy project for the company. Bob has a history with Indy back in the 80’s, the press release said at the time, and he also had a penchant for extracting the most out of limited resources as his time at Force India proved. It seemed a good fit. At the time, I was...
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