but it proved to be a long wait. The car finally made its test debut in mid-May, ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. But a series of unexplained crashes in testing, and the car's failure to pass the mandatory FIA crash tests, meant that McLaren had to go back to the drawing board (...
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but the rules have removed the team’s ability to add all those little devices that make it much better. All of that clever innovation will be gone, but fundamentally, it’s a much better way to design a race car from an aerodynamics perspective....
Indeed, the FIA almost immediately declared the exhaust illegal, sending Mike Coughlan, scurrying back to the drawing board. "The Coanda effect is going to be a big thing for us," he'd said at the time. "There's been no rule clarification concerning this area of the car, so we'll ...
Although many have tipped McLaren as the class of the field heading into the first race of the 2025 F1 season, Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur remains optimistic about the SF-25 after preseason testing in Bahrain. Clearly, the three days weren't as smooth as everyone hoped, possibly due...
“We try to get people talking to each other in the quieter moments, make sure that project management has the drawing office working with production to understand if the manufacturing techniques to use are reliable and robust; that the lead times are sensible, that t...
the yellow #20 BMW went off the track and glanced the wall on the left hand side before continuing across the track to the outside wall where the car came to a stop. While the race continued under the safety car, Hulme was removed from the car and taken by ambulance to Bathurst Hospit...
seen flashes of performance really coming over the last few races, Brazil in the dry Sprint race. We've been starting to get more understanding with the car. Austin, again, the Sprint victory that he had there. So it was great to see. It was a tough race, but a great one to win....
I think drawing conclusions after the first race is a bit too early. One thing for sure is that our focus is on the brake problems we had in the race. We've been working on it and I hope we can solve them. Q: And what about the raw pace of your car? Do you think you've ...
There was a drawing there, but the drawing didn't make clear the orientation on the car. "We realised the mistake after qualifying and we asked the FIA technical delegate, Joe Bauer, if, because they were the same parts, we could take them off and put them back in the right...