2025 McLaren F1 Team

[mwillems]

Great race from Lando. Shame the conditions caught Piastri.

At least he got a nice overtake on Hamilton at the end.

[chengzhongyi2013]

Well done, Lando!
Oscar, better luck next time. Wrong time, wrong place.
Onto the next one.

[Darth-Piekus]

You now have to agree that Norris drove like a champion. He not only done what was required at the start (that is to close the door on Max) but also hold the car in the track during that drizzle and held to such a pressure from both Piastri and Verstappen and all of that in the rain. Kudos to the team for that quick double stack. Superb strategy today. A huge pity for Oscar as the weather stole his 2nd position and after he did such a good race battling and winning against Max.

[Szabi1112]

Poor Piastri. However this is only his 3rd season.

Fantastic job Lando

The car is amazing. I cant wait China

[CrazyCarperF1]

Early days, but the car looks so much better than the rest, really need to capitalise points in the first 9 races.

[Emag]

When you have changing conditions like today, your race can go from amazing to horrible (and vice versa) really quickly. Props on them for keeping the cool today, particularly Lando. A lot less "urgency" and "stress" in his radio comms. Finally they got one right with the rain. Imola 2021 was the last one I remember to have gone good for them in the wet.

Not much to takeaway from a race with changing conditions. Max is an incredible driver and was the only one who could keep up with McLaren today, even if he had to do it at the cost of extra tire wear. Early indicators are really good for this car though, to have that sort of advantage in qualifying and then go on to dominate every other driver (except Max) on a race with completely different weather conditions, well that's impressive.

Once Max tires fell off on that first stint they both pulled 20 seconds in a snap. Too big of pace advantage. Amazing job by McLaren and props to the factory for developing a car like this on the last year of these regulations. I do hope we don't get a boring 2023 repeat though, so looking forward to the next couple of races to get a clearer picture on how the pecking order and gaps will look like, because Australia was anything but representative.

[CjC]

Awesome. Great job Lando.

Gutted for Oscar. This is his Sochi 2021

[Holm86]

This year's car is a beast, quick in quali and great race pace, they were 15+ seconds in front of Verstappen before the rain came

[geogate]

looking forward to some Lando/oscar battles this year. They were so close even if the points dont reflect that. Sure, you you are a Ferrari fan that wont make you happy, but i wanna see those guys race

[BMMR61]

Great start to the season, the car looks like it may again be an allrounder. Easy on tyres, good speed and DRS, awesome low speed turn in, and the boys drove really well. Pleased to come here and not see people moaning about strategy, it was a bit of a lottery out there truly. Great consolation pass by Oscar on Hamilton on the last lap. Lando imperious, pleased to see Rob Marshall get the honour, he has brought the game to them.

[venkyhere]

MCL39 in 2025 is looking every bit like the RB19 in 2023. More than 1s/lap on race pace. Even if others 'add performance' over the season, it's too big a gap to bridge. Congrats on the WDC and WCC.

[BMMR61]

Hasn't McLaren F1 got some of the best "tech support"? Can they loan us some talented IT people to sort out all this "Bad Gateway" s%$t ASAP!

[mwillems]

The MCL38 would have struggled in these conditions. One takeaway is how nicely the car is able to warm the tyres quickly in these conditions.

[mwillems]

MCL39 in 2025 is looking every bit like the RB19 in 2023. More than 1s/lap on race pace. Even if others 'add performance' over the season, it's too big a gap to bridge. Congrats on the WDC and WCC.

Australia always suits us. There will be tracks where we aren't fastest, but it looks promising.

The car is already clearly better at the front end and better in wet conditions, so that's two major flaws addressed. Let's see a few more tracks to see if they had to compromise.

[Slahinki]

MCL39 in 2025 is looking every bit like the RB19 in 2023. More than 1s/lap on race pace. Even if others 'add performance' over the season, it's too big a gap to bridge. Congrats on the WDC and WCC.

Australia always suits us. There will be tracks where we aren't fastest, but it looks promising.

The car is already clearly better at the front end and better in wet conditions, so that's two major flaws addressed. Let's see a few more tracks to see if they had to compromise.

Yeah, it's a promising start but a sample size of one isn't anything to draw conclusions from.