Mclaren F1 Director Reveals Promising Updates on 2021 Car

With the new car regulations to come into force from the next season, the teams on the grid are making as minimal upgrades as they can to focus on the next year’s machinery. But this is not the case with McLaren as their racing director, Andrea Stella reveals his team plans to continue to enhance their car.

Despite introducing several upgrades to their car at the recently concluded Hungarian GP, the Woking-based team is all set to make further upgrades to MCL35 this season.

Lando Norris, who has been arguably one of the best drivers in the first half of the season, retired before 1 lap at the Hungaroring after his collision with Bottas on turn 1. Whereas Daniel Ricciardo finished just behind the top 10.

McLaren failed to register a single point from the race. As a result, the Woking-based team sits joint third in the constructor’s championship with their arch-rivals, Scuderia Ferrari.

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What did Andrea Stella say?

As quoted by Crash.net, when asked if there will be any further upgrades for McLaren this season, Andrea Stella replied: “They will not be the last upgrades for this season.”

“Simply because when you release upgrades, then it takes some time to produce them and learn the trackside so there will be a few more.”

“Also in F1 you always keep acquiring some information once you test the parts at trackside because you never get a perfect correlation with the development tools so once you test some upgrades trackside you normally get information for further fine-tuning which doesn’t necessarily require to go past the wind tunnel.”

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McLaren should win the constructors’ championship by 2024: Zak Brown

After being a midfield team for so many years, McLaren is making a significant investment in their infrastructure to make them the frontrunners in F1 again.

The Woking-based team is installing a new windmill at their headquarters after years of using Toyota’s facility at Cologne. Meanwhile Mclaren CEO Zak Brown reveals, McLaren should be the title contender by 2024.

“I think it’s always dangerous to pick a point in time in which you should be going for it. What I will say is we will have caught up by 2024 with all of our infrastructures, most specifically the wind tunnel,” said Zak Brown.

“I think we’ll have no excuses come the 2024 season, and would like to think that by that point, the sport is going to be so competitive that there’ll be a variety of teams fighting for the championship, and I like to think we’d be one of them.”

Is McLaren making the right decision in making further upgrades to their current machinery? What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.