I've been rooting for McLaren since the Mika days and I've never seen this team in such bad shape.
From the bland livery to the awful engine, it's such a sad decline.
And the worst part, it all seems to have been self-inflicted. It all started when Martin Whitmarsh facilitated a deal to give Mercedes engines to Brawn GP.
That friendly gesture is what ultimately triggered Honda becoming the Mercedes era - McLaren and McLaren becoming the 2007-2008 Honda works team. McLaren lost Lewis, Paddy Lowe, most of its sponsors and the Mercedes engine deal after that.
It's kind of depressing that many of the factors that make Mercedes so successful today were once part of the McLaren team.
I wonder what McLaren (and F1) would look like if Martin Whitmarsh hadn't come up with the idea of giving Mercedes engines to Brawn GP?