Grow the experience levels 🪴 Prepare for a longer calendar 📅 Andrea Stella details McLaren's reasoning on rotating F1 race engineers for Lando Norris ⬇️
Norris generally races with his long-time race engineer Will Joseph manning the radio, but on occasion, Joseph has been swapping roles with Norris' performance engineer Jose Manuel Lopez, including in various sessions over the last couple of race weekends.
"The reason why you see there's a group of engineers supporting each driver rather than the classic two or three engineers is because we want to attack a couple of objectives," Stella explained. "This is in terms of planning but this is also in terms of what happens if we have an emergency and we need to substitute one of the race engineers, so we want to create a long bench or a long group of people that can support the driver.
Lopez has been Norris' performance engineer since 2020 and has therefore already built a strong connection with his driver. The Spaniard was previously employed in F1 by Haas.Stella also said it is not just flexibility but also improving communication between the engineers themselves that is behind the move, with engineers picking up new nuances and getting a better understanding of each other's needs by putting a different hat on for a session.
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