Tags: McLaren
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Brown all but rules out top-three fight
Zak Brown has all but ruled out McLaren entering the battle for a top-three spot in the championship, saying the grid order won’t change much in 2020.
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Alonso’s ambassador role with McLaren ends
Fernando Alonso is no longer an ambassador for McLaren after his contract with the team expired at the end of 2019 season and was not renewed.
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Brown sees McLaren taking smaller step in 2020
McLaren CEO, Zak Brown, thinks the team will have a smaller step of improvement in 2020 compared to the step made from 2018 to 2019.
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Norris lets slip McLaren launch date in live stream
Lando Norris has let the cat out of the bag by revealing McLaren’s MCL35 launch date is on Thursday, February 13.
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K-Mag: Haas won’t spiral like McLaren/Williams
Haas’ Kevin Magnussen says he doesn’t see his team entering a spiral of decline like McLaren and more recently Williams suffered.
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Norris: Sainz relationship only benefits McLaren
Lando Norris believes McLaren’s P4 finish in 2019 was made possible by his strong relationship with team-mate Carlos Sainz.
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Norris reveals his ‘strong’ to-do list for 2020
Lando Norris has revealed the areas he is working on over winter in order to come back a more improved driver for the 2020 season.
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Perez aiming to take fight to McLaren in 2020
Sergio Perez is hoping to “attack McLaren” in the 2020 season and also set a target of being “significantly closer” to the top three in Formula 1.
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McLaren has ‘clear plan’ to return to F1 summit
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl is happy to have been given the “freedom” to develop a “clear plan” for the team’s future.
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McLaren will max out budget cap to compete
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has revealed that that his outfit will run at budget cap level from 2021 as they look to compete with F1’s big boys once again.
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McLaren reshuffle management for 2020 season
Andrea Stella has been promoted to McLaren Formula 1 racing director as part of team principal Andreas Seidl’s management reshuffle ahead of the 2020 season.
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Norris sees Sainz as a mentor
Lando Norris says that Carlos Sainz has been like a mentor to him in the Briton’s rookie season on the grid.
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Brown: Someone will get 2021 right, and wrong
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says it was important to finalise his team’s switch to Mercedes power for 2021 as soon as possible.
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Seidl: Norris grew to be ‘complete’ driver
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl believes Lando Norris built his way up to becoming a “complete driver” in the second half of 2019.
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Sainz: 2021 a chance for McLaren to return to top
Carlos Sainz believes that the 2021 regulation changes present a “great opportunity” for McLaren to return to the top of the grid.
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McLaren ‘losing lots of money’ in F1
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has revealed that their F1 team is “losing lots of money” as they evaluate a possible World Endurance Championship entry.
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Norris: McLaren avoided overhyping 2019 season
McLaren’s Lando Norris believes the team helped their own cause in 2019 by not “overhyping” their season before it began.
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McLaren hoping for big boost from new simulator
McLaren technical director James Key is looking forward to putting McLaren’s third-generation simulator into action next season.
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McLaren’s head of aerodynamics leaves team
McLaren look set for more personnel changes in the winter following the departure of their head of aerodynamics, Guillaume Cattelani.
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Norris doubts more tests would helped ahead of debut
With pre-season testing reduced to only six days for 2020, Lando Norris says he doubts more days in the car would have better prepared him for Formula 1.
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Driver reviews: McLaren, Renault, STR, Racing Point
In round two of three, PlanetF1 delves into the performances of every driver, now it’s the turn of McLaren, Renault, Toro Rosso and Racing Point.
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Brown tried ‘to take politics’ out of McLaren
Swapping the experience of a double World Champion for a young line up, Zak Brown says he was determined to “take the politics out” of McLaren and cultivate healthy competition.
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Sainz: It was like a World Championship for me
Lining up Nico Hulkenberg for a final lap pass in Abu Dhabi, Carlos Sainz reckoned if “it worked with” Sergio Perez, it would work with the German. It did.
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Norris explored ‘different driving styles’ in test
On track for the last time this year in an official session, Lando Norris explored “different driving styles” as he lapped the Yas Marina circuit on Tuesday.
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Renault, not McLaren, could be Alonso’s 2021 F1 team
Fernando Alonso would “most likely” return to the Formula 1 grid with Renault, not McLaren; that’s according to F1 pundit Martin Brundle.
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Sainz: McLaren certainty unlocked confidence
Secure in the knowledge that he’ll be a McLaren driver in 2020, Carlos Sainz felt confident to show his skills out on track on his way to P6 in the standings.
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Abiteboul: McLaren used Renault as a benchmark
Cyril Abiteboul believes Renault has helped McLaren by providing them with a benchmark in their quest to rise up through the Formula 1 ranks.
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Qualy: Hamilton ends his pole drought in Abu Dhabi
Lewis Hamilton ended his run of nine races without a pole position as he topped the timesheets in qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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Wolff: McLaren will be ‘there or thereabouts’ in 2020
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is wary of McLaren potentially taking another big step in right direction and perhaps turn the big three into a big four in 2020.
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McLaren expand British American Tobacco deal
McLaren have announced an “enhanced partnership” with British American Tobacco for the 2020 Formula 1 season.