Lando Norris, left, and Daniel Ricciardo hold the keys to McLaren’s championship chances. Simply the way we worked together as a team was clearly the next step again which is the most important thing for me to see because we made a major reset to the team two years ago in terms of organization, culture and we created stability which hasn’t been there before at McLaren for several years. “In terms of operational strength at the track we had a very good season again, we made good steps forward in terms of consistency and speed of the pit stops. “In terms of reliability, we had a very good season,” he says. Improving McLaren beyond merely the performance of its car has been a quest for Seidl, who previously guided Porsche’s ultra-successful sports car program. We were even in a position to occasionally challenge them at the tracks which were suiting our car.” “We made a big step forward again with the car in terms of getting closer with the lap times in quali and the race to Mercedes and Red Bull,” said Seidl on McLaren’s 2021 season, his third at the helm. While Brown is responsible for McLaren Racing’s activities, responsibility for Formula 1 rests with Seidl, Key and executive director of racing Andrea Stella. McLaren hit its preseason targets, bar retaining its 2020 championship position, prompting Brown to describe the year as “successful” in its journey “to get back to hopefully competing for the world championship in a few years’ time.”
MCLAREN F1 2021 DRIVER
McLaren’s 2021 also came off the back of having to navigate choppy financial waters that were accentuated by the pandemic’s impact on the wider McLaren Group a December 2020 deal with US-based investment firm MSP Sports Capital steadied the ship and ensures that for 2022 McLaren is in a much healthier position, able to financially compete up to the budget cap of $142 million. McLaren subsequently spent its allocated development tokens on housing Mercedes’ power unit rather than solely tackling potential chassis weaknesses. But when these were postponed by a year, McLaren instead had to adapt the existing package that had initially been designed for a Renault engine.
It was an alliance planned to coincide with the overhauled technical regulations. McLaren had to deal with its reunion with Mercedes. Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris earned a well-earned 1-2 in Italy, while one race later in Russia, Norris was leading from the pole position until rain derailed his prospects. McLaren’s 2021 season was its best in terms of points (275) since 2012, the last year in which it was a title contender.įrom 2020 to 2021, McLaren slipped in the Formula 1 Constructors' standings from third to fourth, falling behind Ferrari, but crucially brought to a close a win drought that had extended to 170 races. The new 2022 regulations nevertheless give McLaren the opportunity to adopt new philosophies.McLaren will enter 2022 with the same driver lineup of Ricciardo and Norris.McLaren is now almost unrecognizable from the team that Zak Brown joined as CEO prior to 2017.
0 kommentar(er)
