McLaren head into the Miami Grand Prix on a wave of optimism. Lando Norris finished a strong P2 in the Chinese Grand Prix last time out. The team is also bringing updates to Miami. Heading into Shanghai, Andrea Stella expected the Woking-based squad to struggle due to the track characteristics with the MCL38’s difficulties in…
Updated sporting regulations have been released today aiming to clamp down on problems identified in the opening five races of the 2024 season. Today’s updates to Formula 1’s sporting regulations aim to clamp down on false starts and encourage teams to hit the track during rain affected sessions. Both changes have been introduced based on…
Ferrari has had a good start to the 2024 season. They are the only team other than Red Bull to win a race to date as Carlos Sainz took the win at Albert Park in Melbourne last month. Behind these two teams, McLaren looks like they are establishing themselves as the third fastest one. The…
Speaking after the Chinese Grand Prix, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella gives Kudos to Max Verstappen and Red Bull for their record breaking achievements in recent years, while setting McLaren’s targets on closing the gap to the dominant champions. Following Lando Norris’ impressive performance to take the chequered flag in P2 during the Chinese Grand…
The McLaren team had a somewhat disappointing start to the 2024 season following their impressive performance at the end of last year, thanks to the major upgrades that were brought in Austria, Hungary and Singapore. After finishing P6 and P8 in Bahrain, McLaren has generally been the third fastest team. Japan was disappointing as higher…
As the sport develops, Formula 1 has been trying out some tactics to keep racing alive, most recently with the introduction of the Sprint weekend. Trying to balance the traditional race weekend alongside innovative racing formats, the F1 Sprint is back this year with some interesting changes for its fourth season in the sport. Featuring…
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has praised Lando Norris’s upturn in performance and consistency in both qualifying and race trim in the 2024 F1 season compared to 2023, pointing out how the young Briton is now capitalising on the areas where he needed to improve last season, especially during those critical qualifying laps. The Italian…
Oscar Piastri’s Chinese Grand Prix was a damage-limitation race for him and his team in the second half of it. While his teammate secured P2 and stood on the podium, Piastri managed to hold off Lewis Hamilton and finish in P8. The Melbourne born driver’s race turned in an instant. As Daniel Ricciardo was rear-ended…
McLaren’s good start to the 2024 season continued at the Chinese GP with Lando Norris scoring the team’s second podium of the campaign. For the most part, the British driver had an outstanding weekend. On pole by over a second in SQ3, Norris made a mess of the start by trying to go around the…
Lando Norris drove a phenomenal race to secure second place at the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix and his second podium of the season, keeping pace with Sergio Perez’s Red Bull and comfortably beating both Ferrari drivers to the flag. But after a difficult Sprint race which saw the Briton finishing down in sixth after running…
