Bruce McLaren

McLaren enjoyed a solid start to the season, holding third in the constructors' championship after four races.<br>The team introduced incremental updates at the Portuguese and Spanish Grands Prix as it battles with Ferrari for the best of the rest title behind Mercedes and Red Bull.<br>Despite all F1 teams having to increasingly shift resources towards the all-new 2022 rules package, McLaren's ...

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McLaren picked up where it left off in 2020, holding third place in the constructors' championship after four races with a slender five-point lead over Ferrari.<br>At last weekend's Spanish Grand Prix McLaren was outscored by the Italian outfit for the first time in 2021, with Ferrari's qualifying performance proving key on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.<br>Ferrari's Charles Leclerc started ...

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Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo have all been working their way through the process of adapting, and all have had hurdles to overcome.<br>In the case of Ricciardo, getting on top of corner entry and braking has been one of the main issues he's faced as he's tried to match the superb form of teammate Lando Norris.<br>Braking has traditionally been ...

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Ricciardo qualified seventh in Saturday's session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, outpacing teammate Lando Norris - who had a disrupted Q3 session - by four tenths.<br>While Ricciardo managed to start in front of Norris for two of 2021's first three grands prix, he struggled to adapt to his new car so far, which especially shone through on Sundays. Coming a week after a slightly ...

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It duly arrived at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix with some new parts to evaluate as it looks to enhance the performance of the MCL35M.<br>The parts were first tested by Lando Norris during FP1 whilst his teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, collected baseline data on the old set-up.<br>Both had the revisions for FP2, with the front wing optimised to suit a higher-downforce configuration, whilst its new ...

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The world champion topped second free practice for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, as main title rival Red Bull had a more tricky day around the Barcelona circuit.<br>With Ferrari's Charles Leclerc ending up as Mercedes' closest challenger on the timesheets, and Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso right behind him, Hamilton said that he was impressed with how the midfield pack ...

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Brown's main argument was his frustration regarding the current decision making process in F1 – and specifically the way some teams are obliged to follow the lead of their power unit supplier or commercial partner, and how that can potentially skew the voting.<br>It’s been a contentious issue for decades. Of course, no team is going to vote against its current supplier on specific matters ...

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The Australian has had difficult weekends at Imola and Portimao, being unable to match teammate Lando Norris.<br>But the contrast was huge during qualifying at the Portuguese Grand Prix when Ricciardo was dumped out of Q1 as he lacked confidence to push his McLaren as he would like. He will start from 16th on the grid.<br>McLaren is clear that Ricciardo is simply lacking mileage in ...

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Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko spoke out after qualifying at Portimao in suggesting that there could have been an ulterior motive to Norris being told on team radio not to do Verstappen any favours.<br>Speaking to Austrian channel Servus TV, Marko said Red Bull had noted the radio message – and hinted at it being a ploy by McLaren to help boost engine partner Mercedes.<br>Looking at ...

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The Woking-based outfit has long been uneasy about the growth of partnerships between outfits, with it feeling F1 would be much better off with 10 fully independent competitors.<br>In a lengthy column he wrote on his team’s website on Thursday, McLaren CEO Zak Brown thinks the time has come for the FIA to step in and end alliances.<br>He thinks it is not only damaging for competition on track ...

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McLaren has made a strong start to the 2021 season, finishing third at Imola two weeks ago with Lando Norris to take an early lead in the fight to lead the midfield teams this year.<br>McLaren, Ferrari and AlphaTauri have seemed evenly-matched on pace through the first two races, although McLaren sits seven points clear in the early fight for P3 in the championship.<br>Most teams are currently ...

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Ricciardo, who joined McLaren this off-season from Renault, has so far struggled to match teammate Lando Norris on pace in 2021's first two F1 weekends.<br>At last weekend's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Ricciardo was asked to move over for Norris in the fight for fifth, with Norris going on to take a podium while Ricciardo remained in sixth.<br>Speaking after his second race with McLaren, Ricciardo ...

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For cost reasons teams agreed to have just a single three-day session in Bahrain in 2021, shared between their two drivers.<br>That put extra pressure on any teams that suffered mechanical problems at the test and lost track running, and it also made life difficult for drivers settling into new teams, including McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo.<br>Seidl says he expected Ricciardo and other drivers in ...

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Ferrari worked hard over the winter to make amends for its troubled 2020 campaign, where a down on power engine and a too draggy car left it struggling for form.<br>It finished last year down in sixth in the constructors’ championship, which was its worst result since 1980.<br>Having addressed its deficiencies with the new SF21, Sainz and teammate Charles Leclerc have fought at the front of the ...

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Following months of negotiations aimed at selling the 840,000 square foot facility, a deal was announced on Tuesday for the factory to be bought by American company Global Net Lease (GNL).<br>The transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year and will include a 20-year lease for McLaren.<br>James Nelson, CEO of GNL, said: “We are excited to announce that this ...

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Norris took his second F1 podium with McLaren after battling from seventh on the grid to third, holding off Ferrari's Charles Leclerc behind F1's leading duo Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.<br>While Norris benefited from Sergio Perez' spin behind the safety car and McLaren team orders to release him past teammate Daniel Ricciardo, the British driver was good value for his podium.<br>Norris ...

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The Australian has had a challenging Imola weekend so far, with teammate Lando Norris quicker than him over the two days of action.<br>And although Ricciardo outqualified Norris, that was only because his teammate had his best time deleted due to a small track limits infringement at Turn 9.<br>Ricciardo has confessed to needing more confidence in his McLaren, and he thinks to deliver that he needs ...

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The three-storey Brand Centre had been a centrepiece of the F1 paddock since it first appeared back in 2007.<br>It featured 13.5-metres of solar glass facade on the front and included kitchens, catering areas, meeting rooms, driver rooms, and office space for marketing and media staff.<br>But as part of F1’s move to a more sustainable future, the huge logistics of transporting motorhomes on ...

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Vandoorne and de Vries are the official reserves for the works team, and can also be called upon by McLaren if required. Both drivers have past connections with the Woking team.<br>However, calendar clashes mean that on some weekends neither man will be available for reserve duty.<br>McLaren has thus agreed a deal with Sky F1 pundit and former Force India driver di Resta, who was also on standby ...

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The Australian joined the Woking-based team at the start of this year, as he bids to help the outfit get back to winning ways.<br>But beyond the F1 ambitions, McLaren’s involvement in IndyCar, plus CEO Zak Brown’s association with Supercars, has teed up a good chance of some running outside of grand prix cars.<br>Brown is part owner of the Walkinshaw Andretti United Supercars team and last ...

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It was a machine that not only went on to win races itself, but it defined the sport as we know it now and featured technology that has also helped save countless lives over the decades.<br>The car being talked about is the McLaren MP4/1, the first to employ a full carbon composite monocoque, which made its race debut on April 12 1981 in the Argentine GP.<br>Carbon fibre cars are now ubiquitous ...

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McLaren finished third in last year's constructors' championship and the Woking outfit is tipped to confirm its status as best of the rest behind Red Bull and Mercedes in 2021.<br>While McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Norris qualified sixth and seventh respectively in Bahrain, behind a Ferrari and an AlphaTauri, Norris worked his way up to fourth as the highest finisher not driving for one of ...

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Gasly and AlphaTauri starred in qualifying for F1's season opener, the Frenchman starting fifth behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and ahead of McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris.<br>Gasly's rookie teammate Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of speed but missed out on a Q3 spot.<br>AlphaTauri's qualifying pace has given Gasly confidence that the Faenza team will be in the mix at the ...

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After a rough patch, McLaren worked its way back up the grid under team boss Seidl and technical director James Key. Drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz proved to be a competitive pairing, ultimately handing McLaren third place in the 2020 championship.<br>With Sainz leaving McLaren to join Ferrari, the Woking team moved quickly to snap up Ricciardo from Renault as his replacement for ...

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The first of its successes came on this day 33 years ago, when Alain Prost triumphed in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Here we look under its skin at the tech secrets that help make it such an F1 icon.<br>If we look through F1's history books, we can see fleeting moments where the stars align and suddenly one team has every ingredient needed for the winning recipe: an insanely talented driver pairing ...

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