Eric Boullier: 'McLaren are not good enough'

McLaren's racing director Eric Boullier has admitted that his team are not good enough to challenge for the championship and are instead aiming to repeat their fifth-place finish from last season.

This is McLaren's first season with their new engine partner Honda but the team are still yet to score any points and sit joint-bottom in the team rankings.

When asked about where McLaren will finish in the rankings, Boullier told BBC Sport: "Maybe it looks stupid, but fighting for the position we finished last year.

"It is not good enough - I want to win and I hope we will win. But I have to say something realistic.

"Let's say by the second part of the season after the summer break we are at all the races comfortably in the top-10 qualifying shoot-out and fighting for big points - I'm not saying the podium. That for me would be a big, big achievement."

McLaren have not won a race since 2012, with their last championship-winning season coming back in 2008, courtesy of their former driver Lewis Hamilton.