McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo admits that there are areas his team still need to work on before the 2022 season gets up and running, but is generally happy with how the first two days of pre-season went in Barcelona. The Australian ended day two third on the timesheets, six tenths of a second adrift of Ferrari’s
MoreMcLaren were surprised to be very close to the front-runners at some of the races contested so far this season, Andrea Stella, the team’s racing director, has admitted. The Woking-based racing outfit finished third in last year’s Constructors’ Championship, but they only had the fourth or fifth most-competitive car at most tracks. READ: Ricciardo Could
MoreAndrea Stella, McLaren’s racing director, has said the Woking-based team is concerned by the “required point rate” for them to triumph in their battle with Ferrari for P3 in the Constructors’ Championship. McLaren finished third in last year’s standings and, in the hands of Lando Norris, their 2021 challenger has been the third-fastest car at
MoreDaniel Ricciardo has admitted that he is still struggling to master McLaren’s 2021 challenger, saying he immediately knew that it was a “different beast” to the Renault he raced with last season. The Australian driver joined McLaren from the French works team at the end of 2020, and he has been comprehensively outpaced by Lando
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McLaren will have one of the most exciting driver line-ups on the F1 grid next year, with Daniel Ricciardo partnering Lando Norris at the Woking-based team. Speaking ahead of Ricciardo’s move to McLaren, the team’s racing director, Andrea Stella, noted that Norris and Carlos Sainz, who has now joined Ferrari, had a great working relationship
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