McLaren supremo Ron Dennis has admitted that he is hoping for the team's Honda-powered cars to dominate Formula 1 as they did during the 1988 season.
During that season, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost won 15 of 16 races as McLaren swept all before them, and Dennis is looking for a similar showing from the class of 2015.
He told Autosport: "What we achieved then, and what our rivals Mercedes achieved this year, is exactly what our objective is for the future - which is domination.
"I remember at the beginning of the [2014] season I said we were here to win races. So you could argue that as we didn't win a race and we're using words such as 'domination' then we're setting ourselves up for an almighty fall.
"But domination doesn't come in a short period of time, it takes time. It is what we're about because it is the only thing that really sets you aside from people who just win races. Winning races is challenging but domination is really challenging."
McLaren have failed to win a race since Lewis Hamilton's victory at the 2012 United States Grand Prix.
Chris O'Keefe
