The new MCL39 was revealed to aim for the title. Stella: “On the track already in Bahrain”. Flatri: “I will help Lando, but for the same chance …”
“We changed everything … or almost”. Andrea Stella is not one of great laps of words, he probably never was, like when in 2023 he told us about a McLaren “in great difficulty” after the first Grand Prix in Bahrain. Two years later the prospects are different, under his guidance the English team has found a world title that was missing since 1998 and looks at 2025 as a favorite, but it is the approach that has not been changed. The MCL39 – this is the name chosen for the new Woking single -seater – is a bold, innovative car, with a single goal: to win them all.
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“On paper our new car should be a good step forward – explains the Team Principal in Orvieto to Motorsport.com – we knew we started from a good base, the MCL38 was already a competitive car for which we had to think how far we wanted to push us . In the end, we chose to risk, adopting a rather ambitious approach. The only one to make significant progress “. Entering in detail of the development plans, Stella then revealed that “the team has no intention of changing strategy compared to last year. This is the car that you will see in the tests in Bahrain, but the goal is to make it progress as quickly as possible, for this there will be some updates already in the first races of the season “.
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The first to taste the new “title contender”, as it likes to call it from Woking’s parts, was Lando Norris. English closed 2024 as vice -champion, a result on which they weighed several errors that delivered the title to Max Verstappen. “Sometimes life goes like this – explains Lando – if I hadn’t committed them, I would probably not have learned. Max is an aggressive pilot and recovering points on him was almost impossible. The chances that both fine outside, as in Austria, were many and he would have been just an advantage. ” And in 2025? “This year it will be different – assures Norris – I will have to be an intelligent pilot and if there is to pull the elbow out to not make him pass I will do it”. The Englishman led the McL39 for a hundred kilometers before giving in to his companion to his partner Piastri. The Australian, in his second year in Formula One, has already clear ideas. “I know I haven’t been to my peak yet – explains Oscar – last season there were some races in which I had to help Lando, while in others he helped me. If at the end of the championship there will be several points of difference between us, then we will still give ourselves a hand. I hope it does not happen, we have both the same chances of winning and starting from scratch I think I can become the world champion “.
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