McLaren F1 Give Racing Point Some Reason to Cheer This Season

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl revealed that the team wouldn’t be protesting the legality of the 2020 Racing Point car. Instead, Seidl disclosed that the Woking outfit would strive to improve and stay ahead of its rivals. As a result, Mclaren could have a tough fight on its hands holding on to its position of ‘best of the rest’ in 2020.

McLaren won’t protest against the RP20

For the unaware, the 2020 Racing Point car resembles the 2019 Championing winning car from Mercedes to a great degree. The uncanny resemblance between the RP20 and W10 has caused a fair amount of unrest among the smaller teams. Going by preseason testing, the RP20 may have borrowed some of the W10’s performance as well.

With so many similarities and sudden spike in performance, several teams hinted at protesting against Racing Point. As it turns out, Racing Point recently revealed that the FIA visited the teams’ factory to inspect the RP20. Apparently, the governing authority found no problems with the team’s 2020 car.

Seidl is of the opinion that the RP20 conforms to the rules and regulations that are laid out. Furthermore, the German confirmed that the team wouldn’t be protesting against the Silverstone outfit. Speaking to Motorsport-total.com, Seidl said:

“We have to assume – and I’m sure that it is – that everything is legal,”

“no basis for complaining. And I don’t have time to waste my energy on it.”

“For me, looking ahead is much more important. When the new rules come up and the budget cap. When it comes to the cooperation between two teams, we have to make sure that the budget cap cannot be avoided and that resources can be used elsewhere for your own intellectual property”

“And the second issue that is important to us is engine equality between the factory and customer team. The rules are pretty clear there,” 

Seidl also disclosed that McLaren’s main goal for 2020 was repeating its excellent performance from last season. The Woking outfit finished a commendable fourth in the Constructors’ Standings, clinching a podium along the way.

“Of course, the bottom line is getting fourth place again. That would be great.”

 “At the same time, it is much more important to me that we take the next step with the car and as a team, this year” concluded Seidl.