Bruce McLaren

In the wake of Sergio Perez's late race retirement that left his flaming car at the side of the circuit, a fire marshal ran across the track right in front of Norris' car.<br>Norris came on the team radio and exclaimed his surprise at what happened.<br>"There's a guy f***ing running across the track.. that's the bravest guy I've ever seen," said the young Briton.<br>With F1 well aware of the ...

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Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc finished third and fourth in the rain-affected Istanbul race, logging 27 points between them – by far the biggest single-race score for the Maranello outfit this year.<br>With three races to go, Racing Point currently holds third place on 154 points, ahead of McLaren on 149, Renault on 136, and Ferrari on 130.<br>After a poor qualifying session in Turkey ...

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The rules are focussed on a new aerodynamic package which is intended to make it easier to follow the car ahead, thus increasing overtaking opportunities.<br>Key says that DRS will still play a role in overtaking, but it will less powerful.<br>“I think if the plans work, it will be less influential,” said Key. “I think it will still be necessary. Overtaking is really what these ...

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In the opening laps in Portimao Sainz was able to take advantage of a track made slippery by rain, and also by the fact that he was on soft tyres.<br>Three cars that qualified ahead of him – the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc – started on the medium tyre.<br>From seventh on the grid Sainz was soon up to fifth, and he then gained a spot ...

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With Carlos Sainz having been left with serious doubts over the benefits of the updates at the Nurburgring, the team has had a much smoother time at the Algarve circuit.<br>And after locking out the fourth row of the grid with Sainz in seventh on the grid and Lando Norris eighth, McLaren is upbeat that its performance this weekend has shown the upgrade is working.<br>Team boss Andreas Seidl said ...

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Mercedes had to bring replacement staff from the UK after two crew members tested positive at the Nurburgring, while Racing Point driver Lance Stroll missed the race and then had a positive test after returning home to Switzerland.<br>McLaren boss Andreas Seidl says that the positive tests were a “wake-up call”, and led to the Woking outfit reviewing its procedures and doing even more to ...

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McLaren brought some new parts to the Eifel Grand Prix, but was hamstrung by a lack of running on Friday due to poor weather conditions that prevented it from comparing the updates with the previous spec car.<br>Carlos Sainz opted to run with the new parts in qualifying and the race, but could only qualify 10th as teammate Lando Norris - who stuck with the previous spec - ended up eighth.<br>Sainz ...

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Sainz had exclusive use of the new aero package at the Eifel Grand Prix but was left unconvinced that it was a step forward as he struggled to find a good balance in both qualifying and the race.<br>Speaking after being too far away from a close fight for the top three, Sainz said: “With the car I had today I couldn't fight for the podium, but maybe with the one I had two races ago, maybe I ...

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After rising through junior motorsport as part of McLaren’s young driver programme and making his F1 debut for the team in 2007, Hamilton won his maiden world championship in 2008.<br>Hamilton opted to leave McLaren at the end of 2012 to join a Mercedes team that had up to then won just a single race since returning to F1 with a works team in 2010.<br>But the decision proved to be ...

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A frustrated Carlos Sainz said he had been “penalised” by not having enough time to dial the car in, while acknowledging that it was important to gain more experience with the new package.<br>The Woking team came to Germany with enough parts for both drivers, albeit with some concerns about accident damage eating into the stock.<br>With Friday lost to the weather and with just the FP3 session ...

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While the MCL35 has been strong enough to help McLaren currently sit third place in the constructors’ championship, the team’s season has been impacted by the weather.<br>In particular, both Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris find themselves struggling to get comfortable with the car if there is a strong tailwind – especially in qualifying when the time gap between cars is so ...

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As part of the pre-season driver merry-go-round that occurred after Ferrari decided to not renew Sebastian Vettel's contract, Ricciardo was signed by McLaren as Carlos Sainz's replacement.<br>Ricciardo's decision to commit to McLaren before he had even raced this year's Renault car left his team boss Cyril Abiteboul disappointed at the time.<br>Since then, Renault made decent steps forward with ...

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The Woking-based outfit, which is currently third in the constructors' championship, beat Formula 1's final homologation deadline for major parts changes by racing its Mercedes-style nose at the Russian Grand Prix.<br>And while the nose itself did not deliver an obvious step forward in pace alone, team principal Andreas Seidl thinks the different aero direction that the new design will allow it to ...

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Sainz was an encouraging third fastest in FP3 on Saturday morning, behind only the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.<br>However in the afternoon’s qualifying session he slipped to sixth, with cars from Red Bull, Racing Point and Renault all jumping ahead.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Hamilton concerned about cars "flying by" him at start<br>Norris to race with new McLaren F1 nose ...

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Just like teammate Carlos Sainz, Norris ran with a standard set-up on Friday – a strategy that he said was also in part to avoid the risk of damaging the new one – before the team made a final call last night to trial the new nose on Norris' car during the remainder of the weekend.<br>Despite a lack of spare parts creating problems if any damage is incurred McLaren ultimately decided to run ...

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The Woking outfit trialled the new design on Carlos Sainz's car on Friday at Mugello, and has brought a further iteration to Russia.<br>The revised design, which is similar to the Mercedes concept, has had to pass an FIA crash test.<br>The team will make a decision after practice today on whether it will stay on the car for the remainder of the weekend.<br>"We will continue today with our ...

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Sainz agreed earlier this year to move to Ferrari next season as replacement for Sebastian Vettel, who is on his way to Aston Martin.<br>While drivers moving to new teams has often left them locked out of any technical or development discussions, in case they take valuable knowledge with them to their new bosses, McLaren thinks its fortunes are best served proceeding as though nothing has ...

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After all, the impact of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic had hit the McLaren group's automotive and racing operations hard – prompting it to plan for 1,200 redundancies and needing to arrange a £150 million loan off the National Bank of Bahrain.<br>While such measures were not ideal, they did mean at least that once the road car operation started up again and racing got ...

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The Woking-based outfit was at the centre of the driver merry-go-round that was triggered by Ferrari electing not to extend Sebastian Vettel's contract in to next year.<br>Ferrari made a swoop for Carlos Sainz to replace Vettel, while McLaren then signed up Daniel Ricciardo to race alongside Lando Norris. Vettel has just signed a deal to join Aston Martin.<br>With the 2021 deals in place, there ...

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Ricciardo signed for McLaren back in May as part of the raft of driver movements sparked by news of Sebastian Vettel's impending Ferrari exit.<br>It was the second time McLaren tried to sign the Aussie, Brown making no secret that he approached Ricciardo to replace Fernando Alonso for the 2019 season.<br>Ricciardo decided against a McLaren move at the time, opting to sign a two-year deal with ...

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After the pair qualified third and sixth for the Italian GP, they slipped back to 10th and 11th on the grid for the Tuscan GP, with Sainz calling the turnround a "nasty surprise".<br>Norris's preparations were not helped by a crash on Friday, which saw him damage the front of the car and lose valuable track time.<br>"I think this is not going to be the last time where we see these kind of ...

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Perez announced on Wednesday that he would be leaving Racing Point at the end of the season after the team opted to sign outgoing Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel in his place.<br>It has left Perez considering his next move after not previously talking to any other F1 teams about a drive in 2021. Perez said that any F1 offer would have to be “the right package”, and that he would consider a ...

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Carlos Sainz's car was fitted with the new design at Mugello for a brief run at the start of FP1.<br>The nose is very similar to the design pioneered by Mercedes, with a narrow main structure, and narrow under nose pillars. The cape is also positioned higher.<br>The nose change has forced McLaren to conduct a new crash test, and it will have to make a decision about which direction it wants to go ...

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A report on Sky News this week revealed that McLaren aimed to boost its cashflow by selling the McLaren Technology Centre and then leasing it back. It is hoped that the move could raise around £200 million.<br>It is suggested that property agent Colliers has been instructed to begin the sale process.<br>News of the factory sale comes in the wake of a major financial headache for McLaren earlier ...

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The team currently lies third in the world championship, but Seidl says that Mercedes and Red Bull Racing will remain out of reach until it can match them in terms of facilities.<br>McLaren uses the Toyota wind tunnel in Cologne, but is constructing its own as part of its upgrading strategy.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>New McLaren F1 wind tunnel plans running one year behind<br><br><br>The team has ...

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