Can 2025 be Piastri’s year to win the F1 title?
Somewhere near the end of Oscar Piastri’s press conference last week when McLaren launched its Formula 1 car for 2025, the Australian answered a question that nobody was asking. The actual question was about his relationship with team-mate Lando Norris and how McLaren would handle the competitiveness between the two. Towards the end of his […]
What McLaren’s “aggressive” approach says about its confidence to nail both 2025 and 2026
Every year, Formula 1’s teams have to make the decision when to end focus on the current season and pour all of its engineering resources into designing the next car. It’s an important thing to time correctly, and F1 is littered with examples of teams who either kept developing too late and started the next […]
McLaren flexes its muscles to kick off F1 launch season
It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send’ on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car. It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be first to throw the covers […]
Norris vows to “get my elbows out” with Verstappen in F1 2025 title challenge
Lando Norris has said starting a new Formula 1 campaign on equal footing with Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen will change how aggressively he can race the Dutchman. Norris mounted an unlikely title bid last year after McLaren started the season significantly worse than Red Bull, but a comprehensive Miami upgrade turned around the […]
McLaren becomes first F1 team to reveal 2025 car design, with enforced camouflage livery
McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formula 1 car at a Silverstone season launch event – becoming the first team to show off a 2025 design, albeit with temporary restrictions on its livery. As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live event at London’s O2 arena […]
Why McLaren’s contract extension of its aero chief matters against instability at F1 rivals
One word uttered by McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella nearly two years ago matters when considering his team’s announcement of a contract extension for its aerodynamics chief, Peter Prodromou. “We wanted to unleash a very strong resource that we had internally, and that, for some reasons was under-utilised,” Stella said back at the […]
Hamilton back in action as Ferrari and McLaren complete Pirelli F1 test
Lewis Hamilton was back on track with Ferrari for the Pirelli Formula 1 tyre test that took place this week at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with Charles Leclerc fastest overall. As the new technical regulations for 2026 make F1 cars smaller and lighter, the tyres will also be narrower – by 25mm at the front and […]
How Brown turned McLaren into a title-winning outfit
When Zak Brown joined McLaren as its CEO in 2018, it was a completely different operation to it is now having won the 2024 Formula 1 constructors’ championship. It was McLaren’s first teams’ crown since 1998 and came after several management and structural changes from the moment Brown first walked through the door. The American […]
Alunni Bravi lands wide-ranging McLaren role after Sauber exit
Ex-Sauber managing director and team representative, Alessandro Alunni Bravi, has joined McLaren in the team’s newly created role of chief business affairs officer. Alunni Bravi will report directly to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown and as part of his new remit will head up McLaren’s driver development programme. He will start his new job on […]