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Norris retired when his right rear suspension collapsed as he crossed the line at the end of his eighth lap.<br>He stopped just past the pits with a small fire visible around that area of the car after running wide at the final corner.<br>He had gone straight across the Turn 3-4 chicane earlier in the lap, an event that the team believes signalled the start of the brake issues.<br>After a detailed ...

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The Woking-based outfit has bounced back from a difficult 2018 campaign to currently sit fourth place in the constructors' championship, just two points ahead of Renault.<br>But having undertaken a major infrastructure overhaul, which has included the arrival of new team boss Andreas Seidl and technical director James Key, the outfit is convinced that it will have to wait until 2020 to show off ...

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The rules were due to be ratified by the World Motor Sport Council this month, but the FIA and the F1 organisation have asked the teams to approve a delay until October.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>FIA hopes to break 2021 rules deadlock in Paris summit<br>Why teams are at loggerheads over F1's revolution<br><br><br>However, they did not all sign a letter that was circulated in Canada, with McLaren ...

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Norris was running in an encouraging ninth place, having just been passed by Max Verstappen, when he suffered the failure under braking for the final corner at the end of lap 8. <br>He pulled to a halt at the end of the pit straight with the wheel askew and flames visible around the right rear corner.<br>Earlier on that lap he had run wide at the chicane, which was possibly the first sign that he ...

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Sainz was just 0.376 seconds away from pacesetter Charles Leclerc's Ferrari in the Montreal Friday afternoon session.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Canadian GP: Leclerc quickest in FP2 as Hamilton crashes<br><br><br>McLaren has brought updates including a new floor to Canada.<br>"Everything is working as it should," said Sainz when asked about the new components.<br>"We've also tried some experimental ...

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Most discussion of the timing of the release of the regulations has revolved around whether an early start on R&D for 2021 would favour the established top teams, or those in the chasing pack.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Brown: McLaren in "total clarity" now that Seidl is here<br>Brown starting to see hints of Mercedes-like qualities in McLaren<br><br><br>Seidl says it's more a question of the ...

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On the back of a major restructuring, which has included the recent arrival of Andreas Seidl as team principal, the outfit has currently established itself in fourth place in the standings.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Brown: McLaren in "total clarity" now that Seidl is here<br>McLaren says it might revisit F1 efficiency push <br><br><br>For McLaren CEO Zak Brown, the changes that he has helped ...

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Former Porsche LMP1 head Seidl kicked off his new role with McLaren at the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this month, joining technical director James Key as McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown’s second major new recruit of 2019.<br>That followed the promotion of Andrea Stella to performance director and Gil de Ferran to sporting director, in the wake of Eric Boullier’s exit last summer.<br>Asked by ...

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Norris dropped from 12th to 14th at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix, but was left out during the early-race safety car and thus shuffled ahead of early-stoppers Daniel Ricciardo and Kevin Magnussen.<br>The Briton was subsequently instructed to go long on the medium tyre and manage his pace, which created a large gap between him and the cars ahead and eventually allowed the fellow MCL34 of Sainz ...

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The Woking-based team is one of several outfits that has looked to minimise drag as much as possible, but is now pondering whether an alternative approach of chasing out-and-out downforce is better.<br>Mercedes has shown to good effect how focusing on downforce not only helps improve performance in corners, but has also proved beneficial for getting tyres into the right operating ...

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The Woking-based outfit had hoped that a major upgrade it introduced for the Barcelona event would allow it to challenge near the front of the tight midfield pack, but neither Sainz nor teammate Lando Norris made it through to Q3.<br>Swift pit stops and a good strategy call during the late-race safety car helped Sainz grab points in Barcelona, but the team was still mindful that it had not been ...

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Alonso and McLaren had entered this year’s Indianapolis 500 hoping to be able to challenge for victory and take a win that would secure the two-time world champion motor racing’s famed Triple Crown.<br>But the assault all went wrong when a spate of problems in testing, practice and qualifying resulted in the Spaniard being bumped off the starting grid.<br>While McLaren was deeply disappointed ...

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The Woking-based outfit has come off the back of a difficult 2018 campaign, when a switch from Honda to Renault engines exposed problems with its team and prompted a major reshuffle of the organisation.<br>Newly-appointed team principal Andreas Seidl's first race with the outfit in Spain coincided with a major car update, which included a shift of concept for its front wing design.<br><br>Read ...

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While the Spaniard managed to finish eighth in his home race, he says that things were far from straightforward, with his McLaren giving away too much laptime in the final sector of the Barcelona circuit.<br>"We suffered a lot," explained Sainz. "We had no pace. We were struggling a lot in the last sector. No rear end in the car.<br>"I had [Daniel] Ricciardo on my back and I was struggling in the ...

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McLaren announced a new technology tie-up with Petrobras at the start of 2018, to begin from 2019. <br>As well as branding on the car, the Brazilian company is responsible for developing fuel and lubricants for McLaren to use.<br>McLaren was using Petrobras transmission lubricant at the start of the 2019 and indicated other products would be ready “soon”.  <br>Brazilian president Jair ...

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Having done the first four rounds with a relatively conservative wing design, the Woking-based team has now drifted into the camp occupied by Ferrari and Alfa Romeo.<br>To do that it has created an anhedral arrangement to boost the outwash profile of the front wing flow.<br>In Giorgio Piola's illustration, the new design is on top, with the old wing below.<br>The older specification used the ...

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Renault has introduced a development step on its internal combustion engine that is aimed at boosting performance as well as improving reliability.<br>One of the big advantages of the new engine version is that it can run in higher power modes for longer than the older version, which had to be wound down to ensure it did not hit trouble.<br>Daniel Ricciardo said that the increased confidence over ...

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Ahead of his first official appearance as McLaren's team principal in Spain this weekend, Seidl has explained the qualities that he believes an F1 outfit needs if it is to make progress.<br>"Success in motorsport is always a big team effort," he told McLaren's official website. "You need to have an efficient organisation in place with the right talent in the right positions.<br>"People need to ...

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Although the top three outfits appear to be well clear of the midfield battle, the closeness of the fight to be 'best of the rest' has left de Ferran convinced that small updates could be enough to transform the competitive order.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>The F1 teams under most pressure to deliver upgrades in Spain<br><br><br>"In Barcelona there's potential for a big reshuffle, because a lot of ...

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Reports emerged in the Dutch media last week that de Vries, who first joined McLaren’s young driver scheme back in 2010, had dropped off the Woking squad’s roster of simulator drivers.<br>Speaking during last weekend’s Spa FIA World Endurance Championship round, where he was competing for the Racing Team Nederland LMP2 team, de Vries told Motorsport.com: “I am no longer doing simulator ...

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After losing his drive for the works Renault team, which finished fourth in the championship last year, Sainz moved to McLaren to try to help revive the title-winning teams fortunes. <br>McLaren’s performance has transformed after a major slump in 2018, with rookie driver Lando Norris admitting its early-2019 results have come as a surprise. <br>Ahead of scoring his first McLaren points in ...

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McLaren has shown solid progress this season, and is currently fourth in the constructors’ championship after a double points finish for Sainz and teammate Lando Norris in Azerbaijan.<br>But although the team is now a challenger for best-of-the-rest behind the top three teams, Sainz says McLaren's ambitions are much greater, which is why it needs to lift its game even more.<br>"Pretty much every ...

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Having qualified ahead, Norris had run ahead of Sainz throughout the race.<br>In the closing stages the pair had such an advantage over the cars behind that there when the virtual safety car was deployed it was a possible to do a free pitstop that would not cost a position to another team.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Norris escaped “big hit” during closing stages in Baku<br><br><br>Norris was ...

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Although the Chinese Grand Prix proved a disappointment for the team, with the long sweeping corners of Shanghai not ideal for its car, the Woking-based outfit appears to have made a solid step forward with its car this season.<br>In Bahrain, Carlos Sainz was challenging Red Bull’s Max Verstappen for position before a collision ruined his race.<br>But despite the flashes of promise and signs of ...

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