Autosport 75: How McLaren moved the goalposts amid another F1 rivalry

Autosport 75: How McLaren moved the goalposts amid another F1 rivalry

“Ayrton, we’ve decided to forget the Rio test. We’ll shake the new cars down at Silverstone instead, on Thursday and Friday of this week…” Ron Dennis let the words hang in the air, and with a broad grin listened for the world champion’s response across the 5000-mile telephone link separating Rio from McLaren International’s Woking headquarters. Cupping the palm of his hand over the ...Keep reading

The key word is the aerodynamic load. The current ground-acting single-seats seek the maximum aerodynamic load to transform it into performance. But in order not to dirty the aerodynamic efficiency, it is necessary to find solutions that do not transform into aerodynamic resistance with the risk of increasing the resistance and therefore penalizing its speeds in straight. Fundamental, what the teams seek is to improve the efficiency of the lower…

The Saudi Arabia Grand Prix of F1 2025 was clearly not the best, for the tricolor forces. Between the performances of the Haas d'Esteban Ocon, the abandonment of Pierre Gasly's Alpine and the lack of speed of Jack Doohan's, we were well off to live a week-end virgin of any point. [...] The article In F1, it was the good tricolor surprise in Jeddah, Hadjar again best flag holder! appeared first on the Mag Sport Auto.