When it comes to Formula 1 driver line-ups, top teams are always faced with a dilemma. Is it better to have a clear number one driver who will lead the squad’s effort, or two competitive racers who may bring out the best in each other but also occasionally compete for the same positions and therefore
Somewhere near the end of Oscar Piastri’s press conference last week when McLaren launched its Formula 1 car for 2025, the Australian answered a question that nobody was asking. The actual question was about his relationship with team-mate Lando Norris and how McLaren would handle the competitiveness between the two. Towards the end of his
Every year, Formula 1’s teams have to make the decision when to end focus on the current season and pour all of its engineering resources into designing the next car. It’s an important thing to time correctly, and F1 is littered with examples of teams who either kept developing too late and started the next
McLaren’s Andrea Stella says the team won’t change its principles and racing rules this year as its drivers Norris and Piastri both aim to start the 2025 Formula 1 season on the front foot. After several years in which McLaren missed the mark at the start of the season, the papaya squad is now aiming
Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone. Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going up against now four-time world
Being considered the pre-season favourite can sometimes add yet more weight to the heavy burden a driver puts on their own shoulders – however, Lando Norris is aiming to win the F1 title in 2025 not just for himself but also to help line the pockets of those who back him to do so. As
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri is adamant he is now ready to fight for the world championship as he enters his third season in Formula 1. Piastri has impressed from the moment he first climbed into a papaya-clad machine at the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix, and as McLaren turned around its fortunes the Australian too turned from
It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send’ on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car. It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be first to throw the covers
Heading into the final year of this set of regulations with the best car of the field, it would have been understandable for McLaren to optimise its winning concept from 2024, the MCL38 that delivered the papaya squad its first world championship since 1998. Read Also: Since 1 January teams have been allowed to fully
