McLaren have been the turnaround team of the season, going from backmarkers to potential race winners.
Mercedes’ James Allison has reportedly revealed where he believes the McLaren car is strong after it shot up the grid.
While Red Bull are still one step ahead, McLaren’s improvement has given hope to other competitors that 2024 could be a more even contest.While McLaren’s improvement may have seemed like it took place overnight, it was actually months in the making with the staff at the MTC slightly overrunning in terms of when they thought the new package would be ready.
“There it absolutely gains a huge amount of time. On the balance of the tracks that we have nowadays, that’s a significant number of corners that are at that speed range. That’s where the McLaren has really made huge gains. Alright, it’s not so great in the low speed corners but they can sort of figure that out but it’s clearly a good car.”
“They had this car they knew at the beginning of the season wasn’t the car they wanted,” Kravitz said. “They’d seen that if they went down the Red Bull route, they could do something amazing and this was before James Key left the team.
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