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Why F1 teams are racing into the unknown in China

Five years is an awful long time in Formula 1 and it feels even longer given the global pandemic that interrupted F1's visits to Shanghai.

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McLaren F1 team bracing for "damage limitation" in Chinese GP

McLaren started off 2024 in good shape, heading into the fifth round of the season as the third team in the pecking order, ahead of Mercedes.

Motorsport

McLaren hopes to "out-develop" F1 rivals in "race of upgrades"

McLaren caused 2023's biggest upset by revamping its car to move from the midfield towards the front of the grid, taking nine podiums from July's Silverstone round onwards to finish fourth in the constructors' standings.

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McLaren hopes to "outdevelop" F1 rivals in "race of upgrades"

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How F1 strategy "headache" opens up intriguing Japanese GP

Teams all too frequently bin off one of the choices – either because the soft is too aggressive, the medium falls into no-man's land, or the hard is too conservative – but this weekend's race in Japan has left what Pirelli's head of car racing Mario Isola says is a…

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Lando Norris: ‘I am not afraid in any way of Max Verstappen. I want to prove myself’

The driver, one of F1’s most striking talents, on being an overthinker, his belief in McLaren and how he strives to improve

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Aerodynamicist David Sanchez Leaves Mclaren After Organizational Changes

Aerodynamicist David Sanchez leaves McLaren as team undergoes internal restructuring. McLaren prepares for Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

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McLaren reshuffles F1 technical team as Sanchez leaves after three months

Sanchez joined McLaren from Ferrari in January among a series of hires to augment the team's engineering staff, but it became apparent that his duties as the technical director in charge of concept and performance were "not aligned" to those discussed previously. Team principal Andrea Stella will thus assume Sanchez's duties…

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McLaren will need "another 12 months" to fix F1 weaknesses

McLaren is one of the teams that have progressed the most since the start of last year, with most of its gains coming from mid-2023 upgrade packages that allowed it to finish the season in fourth place.

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Stella: Piastri has “gone a long way forward” and still has ‘more to cash in’

Piastri, entering his second season in the top flight, bagged fourth place in his home race in Australia last weekend following a team-orders switch to fall behind stablemate Lando Norris.

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Stella: Piastri has "gone a long way forward" and still has 'more to cash in'

Piastri, entering his second season in F1, bagged fourth place in his home race in Australia last weekend following a team-orders switch to fall behind stablemate Lando Norris.

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Stella: Leclerc finished ahead of Norris on merit in F1 Australian GP

Third-placed Norris believes that he could have deprived Leclerc of second in Melbourne if McLaren had have gone for an undercut strategy, as Ferrari and team-mate Oscar Piastri did.

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Norris: Australia layout the main factor behind improving McLaren F1 form

Norris and Oscar Piastri qualified fourth and sixth respectively, but both will move up a spot after a three-place grid penalty for third-fastest Sergio Perez. While Piastri couldn't wring an optimal lap out of his MCL38 in Q3, Norris' four-tenth gap to Red Bull''s polesitter Max Verstappen is the smallest…

Motorsport

F1 chiefs have tools to avoid “unintended” ground effect troubles, says McLaren

With the current ground effect cars performing best when they run low and stiff, there have been mounting concerns voiced by drivers about the physical battering they are facing out on track.

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What F1 rear wings are telling us about the 2024 tech battle

While downforce remains an important factor, you will not get far these days if it comes with too much drag. The rewards are huge if you can deliver a car that is super strong in a straight line.

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McLaren targets "race six or seven" for first major 2024 F1 upgrade

McLaren came out of the gates much stronger in 2024 than it did 12 months ago, fighting Mercedes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia for the status of third-fastest team behind Red Bull and Ferrari.

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Does F1 have a dirty air problem?

The phenomenon of boiling, twisting vortices being generated by winged F1 machines has been an issue through the generations.But in the championship’s moves to improve its entertainment spectacle, particularly over the last 20 years or so, the desire to clean-up outwash airflow generated by cars to allow following drivers to…

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Red Bull’s massive head start makes its F1 2024 pace no surprise - McLaren

Red Bull dominated last year, and all its rivals had hoped that a winter of development would allow them to close in on the world champion squad to make a better fight this campaign.

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McLaren needs "two big steps" to catch F1 rivals Ferrari and Red Bull

McLaren emerged from Bahrain's season opener as the fourth-fastest team, well behind Red Bull and Ferrari on race pace while nipping on the heels of Mercedes.

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10 things we learned at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix

Formula 1 racing returned with the new season finally kicking off for real with the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix. But there was so much similar from the overall story of 2023 it rather deflated the whole affair from early on in the 57-lap main event. Max Verstappen appeared to be…

The Guardian - UK

Formula One 2024: team-by-team guide to the cars and drivers

As impending shockwaves rumbled off-track, Bahrain opener provided hope for Max Verstappen and Red Bull’s rivals to step up

Motorsport

How raised “self-awareness” will boost Piastri in his second F1 year

The testing he did with an old Alpine gave him a head start, but that programme ended in the summer of 2022 after his move to McLaren was announced.

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Stella: First sight of Red Bull RB20 F1 car made me go “wow”

Red Bull’s substantial step for this season has caught rivals by surprise after most of them focussed on trying to work out what made last year’s RB19 so competitive, and inevitably ended up with cars that owe much to the title winner.

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Stella: F1 development curve will flatten amid third year of rules cycle

The 2022 rules cycle has been dominated by Max Verstappen and Red Bull, but behind them teams have gradually closed up, with 2023 one of the most competitive seasons in history in terms the lap time differences between all 10 teams.

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Norris: McLaren hiding aero details due to "game of performance"

The team launched its new car at Silverstone on Wednesday with no media presence and only issued pictures that appeared to disguise aerodynamic details.

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