With McLaren bracing for a tough start to the 2023 F1 season, new team boss Andrea Stella explains why it missed its aerodynamic targets with the MCL60 🎯 Full story ⬇️
At McLaren's 2023 launch, even before a wheel was turned, the team realised it was in for a rough start to the new season because it foundLast week's three-day Bahrain test has gone reasonably well, but it also confirmed the team's expectation that just like last year it would start 2023 with a car that is too inefficient, and therefore generates excessive drag for a given downforce level.
Succeeding a 2021 car that was actually known for its excellent straightline speed, the 2022 MCL36 was known to be rather draggy, which forced the team to make trade-offs between top speed and optimum downforce levels. It led to aerodynamic efficiency to be one of the priorities to address for this year, but soon after putting together the launch spec of the new MCL60It will have now to wait until its first major upgrade package can be put on the car - which is planned for the Baku round at the end of April - to catch up.
"I'm afraid that just continuous improvement and growth [is needed], and we have to improve in all areas."
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