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Verstappen not interested in Horner/Brown rivalry

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Max Verstappen insists he simply «doesn’t care» about the feud between Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner and McLaren boss Zak Brown.

The latest spat between the two has overshadowed much of the track action at this weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin, where Verstappen qualified second behind title rival Lando Norris.

Brown was leading the charge for Red Bull to face punishment if a potential breach of parc ferme rules was found after the presence of a device below the Red Bull cockpit that allowed a quick change of ride height was discovered.

It fuelled suspicions that it could have been used by the team to adjust its front bib, but the FIA’s judgement has since found that Red Bull did not break F1’s rules.

The controversy comes after McLaren faced its own FIA investigation following the Azerbaijan GP after video footage of its rear wing flexing was broadcast.

The way that the upper element of the rear wing rotated back to help open up the slot gap led to the concept being swiftly labelled as ‘mini-DRS’.

McLaren clarified that it had made modifications ahead of the race in Austin, with Horner having been on the offensive since the wing news broke in Singapore.

While Brown and Horner play out their feud in the media, their drivers continue to fight for supremacy on the track.

Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing, Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, in the team principals Press Conference

Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing, Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, in the team principals Press Conference

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Verstappen won Saturday’s sprint race from pole position but then had to settle for a front-row start alongside polesitter Norris for Sunday’s United States GP.

Asked about Horner’s feud with Brown, Verstappen told Autosport: «That doesn’t interest me. We were just using it as a tool to adjust the ride height faster.

«It was not really McLaren per se, it was more Zak. Zak doesn’t like Christian, so yeah… And vice versa, I think! That’s just how it is. That’s not my problem either.

«I really don’t care about this at all. I don’t deal with that. I see it, I read it. But then I turn it off again and go and watch MotoGP or go on the sim.»

Verstappen still leads the way in the drivers’ championship as he aims to defend his title, although McLaren now tops the constructors’ standings following a drop-off in pace for Red Bull.

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Austin, though, has offered something of a timely return to form for Verstappen, who admits it has been a while since he felt as good behind the wheel as he did on Friday and Saturday.

«That was a long time back! I don’t even remember when that was, to be honest,» he said.

«So that’s definitely positive. From the first lap in qualifying, it actually went well. And my first lap in Q3 also went well overall. But, at Turn 19, I didn’t make the corner, so that didn’t quite work out.

«Then, of course, you normally have a second chance. Only this time there wasn’t because of the yellow flag. That’s a shame of course, but it can happen sometimes.»



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The factors that make the US GP weekend crucial to F1’s fight at the front

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After four weeks away, Formula 1 returns for a frantic six-race run in eight weeks, with Austin’s United States Grand Prix a crucial weekend across the grid as 2024’s final upgrades emerge.

The race at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas is largely seen as the last major opportunity to unleash a last batch of car upgrades this season. Austin is the start of a triple-header that includes Mexico and Brazil, making it logistically the easiest place to introduce new parts.

Then follows another triple-header of Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to close off a hectic season. Some teams might bring new low-downforce items to outlier Vegas, although it is expected teams will generally re-use their wing specifications from Monza and especially Baku. And by Qatar it will have been too late to get a big return on investment, unless teams choose to trial parts for 2025.

So, whatever teams have had in the production pipeline over the last month will now start to emerge as teams make one final push to improve their fortunes. Austin is a sprint weekend, giving teams less practice time to dial updates in, but they have become accustomed to the format so their reluctance to bring upgrades to a sprint event is not as big as it used to be.

«We all know that we already started the development of the next year car and we try to do our best to have a small upgrades,» said Ferrari’s Fred Vasseur. «I think it will be probably the last one for everybody; that it will be true for us, but it will be true for the other teams. And now it’s so tight over the last four, five, six races, if you have a look on the grid, it may get tight and every single bit can make a difference.»

«It’s a natural point in the year that all teams will bring something to Austin,» Red Bull team boss Christian Horner added. «Ferrari has got something sizable. I think Mercedes, McLaren, they’ll all be bringing something.»

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24

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At the front McLaren leads by 41 points and looks primed to keep its advantage until the end of the year, based on its performance gap with Red Bull in recent races. But Red Bull has offered glimpses that it has finally understood where it has gone wrong with the development of its RB20. Yes, Max Verstappen finished a massive 21 seconds behind McLaren’s Lando Norris in Singapore but was still a clear second at Red Bull’s worst circuit. COTA’s flowing layout might offer a better picture of whether or not Red Bull has truly turned the corner.

That is the second reason why the Austin weekend is so key. It heralds a return to more traditional circuits featuring high-speed direction changes, contrasting with the most recent run of low-downforce tracks Monza and Baku, and a maximum downforce but low-speed street circuit in Singapore.

Austin will therefore offer a clearer picture of what the form table might look like until the end of the year, with only November’s race on the Las Vegas Strip the odd one out that’s closer to Baku in nature.

«What we’re looking to do is to build on the understanding that we have and take a car there that’s well balanced between both of its axles, it inspires the confidence of the driver,» Horner said. «It’s a very different challenge. There is that first sector is very high speed. They’ve resurfaced part of the circuit as well, so there’s another variable that’s thrown in.

«It’s a sprint weekend, so you’ve got to hit the ground running. But the whole team’s been working incredibly hard on understanding the issues, addressing them, and getting, hopefully, remedies on the car for Austin.»

While all attention has gone to McLaren’s battle against Red Bull, Ferrari may yet be in the fight, following just 34 points behind Red Bull in third. But the Scuderia is perhaps the team with the biggest question marks to answer this weekend, as it has struggled with high-speed bouncing on the most demanding circuits since the summer. Maranello’s solutions to that crippling problem have gone unproven on the atypical run of Monza, Baku and Singapore, so Austin will be the litmus test on whether or not Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have the tools to compete on COTA’s demanding configuration.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

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«We are seeing the numbers that we expected, bringing those new parts on the car, but we still don’t have the definitive answer of how close we got to McLaren or Red Bull on a normal track,» Leclerc said. «I’m sure we did a step forward. How much? I think we’ll see that in Austin.»

Sainz remains cautious too until he sees Ferrari’s latest specification stretch its legs on «normal tracks», but feels Vegas will be Ferrari’s best bet to take another win this year.

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«I think every team has one more upgrade more or less in the pipeline that they’re going to try before the end of the year, so we could still see some swings in performance,» the Spaniard said. «At the same time, we’ve seen upgrades this year don’t [always] mean performance. It doesn’t always translate into lap time. It’s happened to us and other teams, Red Bull, Mercedes, except McLaren.

«What we need to see is if it makes a difference in Austin and Brazil, all the more old school normal tracks, basically. And then Vegas I think is our next big chance.»



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McLaren adds T-Mobile deal to network of partnerships

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McLaren has added another name to its burgeoning book of commercial partners after announcing a deal with T-Mobile.

As well as leading the way in the constructors’ championship, McLaren also boasts more partnerships than any other team on the Formula 1 grid.

T-Mobile has signed on as an official partner but will also be the team’s exclusive 5G partner in the US – starting at the weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin.

For McLaren, that means it can leverage T-Mobile’s 5G network during races in America, with Miami and Las Vegas also on the F1 calendar.

T-Mobile’s branding will be included on the cars of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in both Austin and Vegas this year and moving forwards.

Elsewhere, McLaren’s communication headsets will also be branded with the T-Mobile insignia as part of the agreement.

“We are delighted to welcome T-Mobile to the McLaren Racing family,” said McLaren’s co-chief commercial officer Matt Dennington.

 

“As our US fan base continues to grow, it is great to be able to work with more partners that will help us increase our presence and ability to activate with our fans in these regions.”

McLaren had 52 partners when the 2024 season began, 30 of which are based in the United States.

The sheer number of deals struck with American companies has grown across the sport since Liberty Media completed its takeover of F1 in 2016.

At the start of the current season, across all teams on the grid, 46.8% of all partners are American, more than doubling the amount prior to Liberty’s involvement.

McLaren has struck plenty of deals of differing lengths to maximise their value, which is only increasing alongside the squad’s performances on the track.

The team leads the way in the race for the constructors’ title and Lando Norris is still in the hunt for the drivers’ championship.

Norris sits 52 points behind leader and defending champion Max Verstappen heading to Austin, having won the previous grand prix in Singapore in commanding fashion.



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McLaren’s one-second-a-lap dominance is “alien” to Verstappen

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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is worried that McLaren’s Formula 1 advantage has turned into “a whole new world” lately, with reigning world champion Max Verstappen equally astonished.

Lando Norris was unrivalled in the recent Singapore Grand Prix, outqualifying Verstappen by two tenths for pole position before winning the race with a 21-second margin on the three-time champion – the gap having been as high as 29 seconds.

This marked the continuation of an eight-race winless drought for Red Bull and Verstappen, with just one pole position and three podium finishes to the Dutchman’s name in that period, while McLaren racked up four poles, as many wins and 11 top-three results.

Verstappen and Marko had “a long conversation” on the phone last week on Tuesday, during which Red Bull’s performance struggle compared to McLaren was brought up.

Asked in an interview with Autosport sister publication Formel1.de what his driver told him then, Marko mentioned: “Well, that Lando’s dominance is alien, especially on medium tyres – he took nine tenths to one second per lap from us.

“Even if our car had been, let’s say, optimised, he couldn’t have driven those times on the medium. And we’re all wondering how he did it.

“When Norris takes nine tenths to one second per lap from us, then it’s a whole new world. And don’t forget, in the second stint, [Charles] Leclerc was just as fast as Lando or almost a bit faster. So for us, I would almost say that second place was like a victory.”

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20

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While McLaren built its successful form on continuity, having opted to keep the same floor since the Miami Grand Prix back in May, Red Bull brought a “subtle” update to its own ahead of the Baku and Marina Bay rounds.

“It is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough,” Marko said of the upgraded Red Bull floor.

“They have worked very, very hard and have gained certain insights. It wasn’t a completely new floor, but parts of it were new. But I think the deciding factor will be performance in Austin, and there are a lot of other things coming.”

Team principal Christian Horner had described the Monza race as “the low point” for Red Bull after Verstappen finished sixth with a 38-second deficit to race winner Leclerc, and Marko agreed that it had been “more than a wake-up call”.

“It was the worst race since… I don’t know, I can’t remember when we got it so wrong in terms of strategy, pitstop, speed, everything,” he enumerated.

“But we are now on the right track. The car needs to have a wider operating window – not one where relatively small changes, or temperature differences of six or seven degrees, can affect performance.

“And then more speed and also more bandwidth so that Max can attack. We know that he needs a car with front-end bite. Because just relying on coming in second is not good enough,” he added, referring to the fact that Verstappen can still afford to take second place in every remaining race to win the drivers’ title.

However, with Red Bull now 41 points away from McLaren in the constructors’ championship and having scored 119 fewer points in the last six rounds – in no small part thanks to Sergio Perez failing to finish a single race in the top five since the Miami event – Marko conceded that this title battle was likely over “with the performance we currently have”.

Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Consultant, Red Bull Racing

Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing, Helmut Marko, Consultant, Red Bull Racing

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“But I’m optimistic that if Max wins races again and Sergio can then achieve third or fourth place, then things will look different again,” he added. “But the focus is primarily on the drivers’ title for now.

“But if we achieve that – and I believe that’s only possible if Max wins at least two more races – then it will also look a bit more promising in the constructors’ championship.”

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McLaren admits to dilemma over F1 upgrade plan

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McLaren has admitted that it faces a dilemma over whether to introduce floor upgrades to its dominant MCL38 Formula 1 car.

The Woking-based team was in a class of its own at the Singapore Grand Prix, with Lando Norris running unchallenged to take victory over Max Verstappen.

McLaren’s form, which has helped it lead the constructors’ championship, comes off the back of it being cautious with its upgrade plans – and sticking with a floor design that it first introduced back in Miami.

This is an approach that is in contrast to many of its rivals, including Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin, who have tried upgraded floor designs but encountered balance problems that held them back.

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But while McLaren’s current package appears to be working well, especially on high downforce venues like Singapore, team boss Andrea Stella says it is not certain that it can stick to what it has right now.

With many of its closest competitors all set to unleash their next updates at the United States Grand Prix, McLaren concedes there is a risk that if it plays safe and sticks with its current package it could fall back.

It has been working on a development step for its car back at its factory, but wants to be sure that it works before committing to racing it.

Asked about the dilemma the team now faced on whether to go for upgrades now or not, Stella said: “In fairness, that was one of my thoughts after the race.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, comes in for a stop

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, comes in for a stop

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“We do have some stuff in the pipeline, and obviously, when you have this kind of performance on track, you always may approach things from a cautious point of view in terms of development.

“But at the same time, we need to trust the process. We need to trust the way we’ve been working so far.

“I’ve said already that we have taken our time to make sure that once we deliver track side, we have done the due diligence. So, I don’t think this will change our plans.”

Stella thinks that, despite McLaren’s advantage, it will not take much for its rivals to leap ahead if they bring upgrades that work.

“In Formula 1, I’m not sure you can back off too much, because backing off means that the others may catch up,” he said.

“And we don’t know what the plans of the others are. Red Bull, we see that in a track in which they thought they would not have been very competitive ultimately, they were potentially second best.

“And I think we haven’t seen Ferrari [at its best], as even in P1, P2, they seemed to be as fast as us.

“So, I think this race may have been a bit flattering. The situation from a competitiveness point of view, I would say we need to keep being aggressive in terms of development.”

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, 2nd position, the McLaren trophy delegate, Lando Norris, McLaren F1 Team, 1st position, Oscar Piastri, McLaren F1 Team, 3rd position, spray Champagne on the podium

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, 2nd position, the McLaren trophy delegate, Lando Norris, McLaren F1 Team, 1st position, Oscar Piastri, McLaren F1 Team, 3rd position, spray Champagne on the podium

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McLaren chief designer Rob Marshall says that the team’s plan was to make sure that any upgrade it did bring helped produce a big step.

“It’s about chasing downforce all the time,” he said. “We kind of like to gather the chunks up and deliver it in a big hit.

“So far we’ve just been focusing on basically gathering those bits up. At some point hopefully we’ll have another upgrade to deliver.

“In a way it’s nice to be delivering lots of little upgrades all the time, a bit like our beam wing here this weekend

“But equally sometimes you just have to hold on a little bit while you wait for a chunk of bits to come all at the same time.

“The advantage in doing that is that often bits don’t combine very well, or as well as you think they would. And if you deliver them in one lump, then that sort of combination of parts has been in CFD together, it was developed together, it’s been through the wind tunnel together, so you can be more confident that combination of bits works well together.

“Whereas if you do it bit by bit, you might introduce an upgrade on one part and then work on another part and find out actually it’s a bit compromised by the previous change you made.” 

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Red Bull head of F1 strategy Courtenay to join McLaren

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The McLaren Formula 1 team has announced it has signed Red Bull’s chief strategist Will Courtenay as its new sporting director.

Having initially joined the team as a systems engineer in 2003 under its Jaguar guise before moving to a strategy role once the team became Red Bull in 2005, he rose to become the world champions’ head of race strategy for the past 14 years. But Courtenay will join title rival McLaren in a position reporting to its long-time racing director Randeep Singh as it aims to bolster its on-track racing operations.

“We are delighted to welcome Will to McLaren, said team principal Andrea Stella. «His experience, professionalism and passion for motorsport make him the ideal candidate to lead our F1 sporting function.

«We are now entering a key phase in our journey as a team, and we are confident that he will be a great addition to our strong leadership team as we strive to continue challenging for wins and championships.”

It is not yet clear when Courtenay will make the switch, with the Briton still contracted to Red Bull until mid-2026. A spokesperson for the team confirmed Courtenay would continue working for the team until that time.

“Will has been offered the position of Sporting Director,» the spokesperson said. «After a long and successful service, being with the team since the Jaguar days, we are sad to see him go but wish him all the best in this step up. Will continues to be part of the team seeing out his contract until mid 2026.»

Courtenay is the latest senior staff member set to leave Red Bull, with design guru Adrian Newey joining Aston Martin in March 2025. Meanwhile, sporting manager Jonathan Wheatley will take up the position of team principal at Sauber from next season.



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McLaren was “taking the p**s” in Singapore GP, says Horner

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Norris was lapping comfortably a couple of seconds ahead of title rival Max Verstappen early on before there was a short team radio discussion where he explained that he was running at ‘pace six’.

His pit wall came back and said: “Ok, in which case we’d like to use a bit of that pace to try and get a five-second gap to Max, if possible, by the mid-teens.”

Norris duly pushed harder and, from being 2.6 seconds ahead at the end of lap eight, he had opened up the five-second advantage within three laps. His advantage over Verstappen in that critical stint was around one second per lap.

Red Bull could offer nothing in return and, by the time Verstappen pitted on lap 29, the Dutchman was 24.7 seconds adrift of the lead car.

That stunning form from Norris was an eye-opener from Horner in revealing the scale of McLaren’s advantage.

“Yeah, that was taking a piss…although I shouldn’t say that in any official capacity,” he said, making a joke about the swearing controversy that erupted over the Singapore weekend.

“The pace he had in hand on that tyre at that point in time was…at that point, we’ve conceded the race on pace.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, 1st position, takes the chequered flag

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, 1st position, takes the chequered flag

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“Obviously, he [Norris] touched the wall for the first time, then he touched it for the second time. But, obviously, they’ve got away with it.

“I actually think Max drove a very strong race. That was what we had, which when you consider where we were a couple of weeks ago, I think we have made some real progress. But obviously, we’ve got a lot of work to do before Austin.”

While the first stint was demoralising for Red Bull, Horner says that the team takes away some encouragement from how similar the pace of his car and the McLaren were on the hard tyres that teams switched to for the run to the flag.

“On the first stint they were very quick,” he said. “I think on the hard tyre we looked in better shape, but of course, the gap is way too big by then, at a track that anyway is very hard to overtake.”

McLaren boss Andrea Stella has revealed, however, that the gaps between the cars on the hard may not be truly representative because his squad had instructed Norris to back off and bring the car home.

“In fairness, in the second part of the second stint, our attention was drawn on the fact that as soon as you got behind the backmarkers, the car started to feel tricky,” he explained.

“So, it was all about no issues, no mistakes, no lock-ups. We had seen already in practice that as soon as you are behind a slow car, things look like there’s something wrong with the car: it’s just the effect of the dirty air.

“The focus was entirely on bringing the car home. We suggested to Lando to have an attempt at the fastest lap, which he achieved. But after that, we didn’t want to talk about fastest lap anymore.”



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Why McLaren sees only «good news» from its flexi rear wing controversy

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McLaren team boss Andrea Stella thinks it is a good thing rival teams are complaining about its car – because this shows they are distracted from their own efforts.

The Woking-based team has found itself the centre of attention since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix over what has become known as its ‘mini-DRS’.

The team appeared to have designed its low-drag rear wing in such a way that the upper element cleverly flexed back to help open up the slot gap – delivering a drag reduction and therefore straightline speed boost.

While the rear wing fully complied with the FIA’s static load tests, its behaviour upset competitors who felt it was pushing the boundaries of the regulations too much.

Following discussions with the FIA, McLaren agreed to make modifications to reduce the flexibility which was seen to be present on its cars in the Belgian, Italian and Azerbaijan grands prix.

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Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

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And while the tweak will mean McLaren losing whatever advantage it got from its design when that specific low-drag wing returns at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Stella is far from disheartened about what has happened.

In fact, he says he actually takes heart from competitors paying so much attention to what his own squad is up to.

Asked for his thoughts on the matter, Stella said: “I find that so much attention on our rear wing is just good news, because it means that opponents are not focusing on themselves.

“Formula 1 is such a marginal game. It’s so complicated. I keep repeating to my team: ‘Focus on yourself’.

“So for me, when I see that there’s so much attention from other teams, it means that they will be doing work, they will be doing analysis, they will be talking to the FIA.

Andrea Stella, Team Principal, McLaren F1 Team

Andrea Stella, Team Principal, McLaren F1 Team

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“They’re using this time and energy to chase something that I think is a red herring. So for me, as McLaren, that’s just good news.

“We try to stay focused on ourselves. We want to come with technical solutions that may be challenging but totally sound from a legality point of view. If others want to get destructive, keep doing that. Because for us, it’s just good news.”

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Although McLaren remains convinced its wing design is fully legal, the team says it agreed with the FIA to make changes because it did not want the controversy to blow up – and it also hoped this would prompt the governing body to look at what other teams were up to.

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“For us, making changes is pretty much transparent, so we may as well do it, as it won’t be a big consequence from a performance point of view,” said Stella.

“This also gave us the opportunity to [remind] the FIA that, you know, we also do some due diligence in terms of studying other people.

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38

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“We don’t want to spend so much energy and time with journalists and trying to create big stories. We just told the FIA what we think is happening.

“We trust, and we are confident, that they will talk to the other teams and make sure that they fix their own issues, which may be less visible, but definitely they do exist.”

While Stella did not want to get drawn into what aspect of rival cars he felt the FIA should be looking at, he suggested the issue revolved around manipulation of the rear wing slot gaps.

Pushed on what he was seeing in other teams, Stella said: “I will not be precise, because I would be disclosing information that I think fits within a confidentiality range.

“For some reasons, this slot gap seems to have become something that dominates F1. There’s many ways in which other cars are exploiting aerodynamic pressure on surfaces — actually, based on our analysis, some of them are just quite a lot more effective.

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38

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“But we do trust the FIA. They are very competent people from a technical point of view.

“To be honest, when we have conversations with them, not only do we see that they understand mechanisms, but they also understand what is going on with our competitors.

“They always seem to be pretty equipped in terms of understanding whether some of the tests are suitable — to limit some mechanisms or ways of aerodynamic pressure.

“I think we are in good hands from a policy point of view, with the FIA, and I think we should have all parties — teams, journalists, everyone — [give] a little bit more respect for the FIA and their technical department, because they do a very good job.

“It’s not a simple job. Sometimes we should praise what they do. And I don’t see this being done very much.”

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McLaren asked by FIA to modify rear wing after ‘mini-DRS’ controversy

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McLaren has been asked by the FIA to modify its rear wing design in the wake of the controversy over its ‘mini-DRS’, Autosport has learned.

With rival teams questioning the legality of the McLaren rear wing after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as it appeared to rotate back at speed to open up the slot gap, the FIA has been carefully looking at its design.

Although there is no doubt that the wing fully complies with the current regulations, and passes all the static tests, it is understood that the FIA has requested for changes to be made.

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