Bruce McLaren

Having been a strong contender for third place in the constructors' championship heading in to the Mexican Grand Prix, a run of incidents and bad luck has proved costly for both Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris.<br>Despite showing some good pace with its car, Ricciardo got tangled up in a first lap clash with Valtteri Bottas in Mexico, retired from the Brazilian GP thanks to a crack in the power ...

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While race stewards denied Mercedes a right to review over Verstappen's defensive actions at Interlagos, McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl thinks a more critical moment will come in Friday night's drivers' briefing.<br>He thinks that, amid questions about inconsistency between the FIA's hands-off approach to the Verstappen incident and Lando Norris getting a penalty at the Austrian Grand ...

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After the Russian GP McLaren had an advantage of 17.5 points over its rival. However the four races held since Sochi have seen a swing of 49 points in favour of Ferrari, with the Italian team now holding a lead of 287.5 to 256.<br>Seidl acknowledged that failing to reach the full potential of the MCL35M in recent races has been "disappointing", with McLaren having logged just two 10th places in ...

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A report on the Autocar website on Monday said that Audi has agreed to a takeover that would give it complete control over McLaren's road car and racing operations.<br>But in a statement issued on Monday, McLaren made it clear that the report was not true.<br>The statement said: "McLaren Group is aware of a news media report stating it has been sold to Audi. This is wholly inaccurate and McLaren ...

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Ferrari and McLaren have spent much of 2021 fighting to lead the midfield teams and finish as best of the rest behind Red Bull and Mercedes in the constructors' championship.<br>Ferrari pulled 13.5 points clear of McLaren in the fight for third place in Mexico, but it was AlphaTauri who topped the midfield as Pierre Gasly finished the race in fourth place.<br>AlphaTauri is now level with Alpine in ...

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Since scoring a 1-2 finish in the Italian Grand Prix in September, McLaren has seen its grip on third place in the standings loosen as Ferrari has fought back.<br>Boosted by an upgraded hybrid system on its power unit, Ferrari has outscored McLaren in each of the last three races, turning a 17.5-point deficit into a 13.5-point lead after Sunday's race in Mexico.<br>Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr ...

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Ricciardo struggled in the first part of the season to get the most out of the car, although he has been much stronger since the summer break, logging a victory in the Italian Grand Prix.<br>Stella says the team learned lessons from Ricciardo during the process of helping the Australian to adapt to the car this year.<br>“Indeed, it was a learning process for us,” said Stella. “We get a new ...

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With five races remaining, there is just 3.5 points separating the two teams in their fight for third place in the constructors' championship.<br>But with Ferrari having made good performance gains in recent races following the introduction of an upgraded engine, McLaren knows that it is facing a big challenge to hold on to its position.<br>Norris insists that McLaren is not downbeat about its ...

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The Maranello-based team is just three-and-a-half points behind McLaren in the battle for third sport behind Mercedes and Red Bull with five races to go.<br>And, with a recent engine upgrade having lifted its performance, the team is increasingly bullish about its prospects for the remainder of the campaign.<br>At the United States Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc finished a strong fourth, almost 25 ...

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After a difficult first year with McLaren, in which Ricciardo has had to work hard to adapt his driving style from last year's Renault to the McLaren, the Australian has been slowly but surely finding speed and comfort with the MCL35M.<br>His shock win in September's Italian Grand Prix aside, the US Grand Prix proved to be one of Ricciardo's strongest showings, qualifying sixth and finishing ...

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McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris took a sensational 1-2 win in Monza, but in subsequent races Ferrari introduced an upgraded power unit for both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.<br>After a closely fought battle throughout the 2021 season, the upgrade enabled Ferrari to leap ahead, which allowed Leclerc to qualify over six tenths clear of the first McLaren in Turkey.<br>In Austin's US ...

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Although Hulkenberg ended the day slowest of the five entries on track at Barber Motorsports Park, Kiel said that his adaptation to the demands of an IndyCar were impressive.<br>“For one thing, it was a tough thing to do to turn 108 laps today as Nico did,” Kiel told Motorsport.com. “I think it was a testament to his training regimen because he’s been out of an open-wheel car for some time ...

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Ferrari grabbed the initiative in the ongoing battle for third in the world championship at Austin when, after recovering from a difficult day, Leclerc qualified fifth, ahead of teammate Carlos Sainz and the McLarens of Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris.<br>All four men subsequently gained a place from a grid penalty for Valtteri Bottas.<br>The only downside for Ferrari was that Sainz progressed ...

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The Finn qualified only fourth at COTA on Saturday after a “messy” final lap, and goes back five places to ninth after taking a new engine.<br>To get involved in the battle at the front between his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton and the two Red Bull drivers, he has to pass the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly and both cars from the McLaren and Ferrari teams.<br>"They're not the easy cars to ...

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The results of the F1 Global Survey commissioned by Motorsport Network in partnership with F1 and Nielsen Sports were released on Thursday ahead of the United States Grand Prix after responses from more than 167,000 fans in 187 different countries.<br>The vote saw McLaren take top spot on the F1 grid, with 29.5% of fans naming it as their favourite team, almost doubling its result of 15.8% from ...

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Verstappen is currently going head-to-head with Lewis Hamilton for the drivers' championship, but has already displaced the Mercedes racer as the favourite driver among fans.<br>The results of the Global Survey were released on Thursday ahead of the United States Grand Prix after responses from more than 167,000 fans in 187 different countries.<br>Verstappen was voted by 14.4% of fans as their ...

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The young Briton looked on course to win his maiden F1 race from pole position at Sochi on Sunday, as he held off Lewis Hamilton behind him in the closing stages.<br>But it all went wrong a few laps from home when a downpour arrived and Norris and his McLaren team left it too late to switch to intermediate tyres.<br>The delay cost him a lot of time and opened the way for Hamilton to take the ...

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And while team boss Andreas Seidl joked on Sunday night about there being a 'Hindsight WhatsApp group', which could conclude it should have pitted Lando Norris straightaway for inters in the closing stages, the analysis will go much deeper than that.<br>Digging into the crucial minutes of what turned an odds-on brilliant win for Norris into heartbreak, it is clear that, like most things in F1 ...

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The McLaren driver had made a mistake in staying out on slicks as a late downpour soaked the track.<br>And having run wide at several corners in his attempt to get back to the pits to change tyres, he also slipped up by skidding across the pitlane entry line and then cutting back across on his way in.<br>This is in breach of the event rules, where drivers were told ahead of the weekend that they ...

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While Lando Norris pulled off a shock in the damp qualifying on Saturday to grab his maiden pole position, he and his bosses are cautious about being able to stay in front in the race.<br>With the worst of the weather appearing to have passed, and the grand prix set to be dry, all eyes will be on whether or not Lewis Hamilton can move forward quickly from his fourth place on the grid.<br>Speaking ...

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The Briton was most famous for a lengthy spell he had at McLaren from 1989 to 2014, which included him being the team's CEO as well as team boss from 2008 until his departure.<br>Since leaving F1 he has been involved in various projects, including being chairman of technology start-up business BAR Technologies, and fulfilling a similar role at Offshore Wind Growth Partnership. He was also heavily ...

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The Woking-based squad became the first team to take a 1-2 in 2021, with Daniel Ricciardo leading home Lando Norris at Monza.<br>But despite the joy of the triumph, team principal Andreas Seidl is clear about just how much room for improvement he thinks his squad needs to make.<br>And he says that the drubbing it took compared to the top teams at the Dutch GP a week before Monza ...

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Sainz spent two years at McLaren in 2019 and 2020 before deciding to move to Ferrari, with Daniel Ricciardo coming over from Renault to fill the Spaniard's seat.<br>Sainz, who scored two podiums for McLaren and came agonisingly close to winning last year's Monza race behind shock winner Pierre Gasly, said he was happy to see Ricciardo and his former crew win McLaren's first race in nine years ...

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Neale originally joined McLaren as its Formula 1 operations director in 2001, before moving up to become the team’s managing director in 2005.<br>He helped play a part in the evolution of the squad as it grew stronger in that period before it helped Lewis Hamilton win his first F1 drivers’ championship in 2008.<br>Neale remained in that role for several years, through many changes of team ...

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The opportunity to win a behind-the-scenes tour of the team’s private headquarters is now open to the SuperFans of the McLaren F1 Team, thanks to their official partner partypoker.<br>To have a shot of winning one of five pairs of tickets for this rare trip to the McLaren Technology Centre, all you need to do is correctly identify three Formula 1 circuits in a short online video in the Access ...

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