https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14538 ... n-2020-carMcLaren has been able to start work on its next Formula 1 car much earlier in 2019 than in recent seasons.
The team has completed a comprehensive restructuring following the arrival of team boss Andreas Seidl and technical director James Key, and established itself in a comfortable fourth in the constructors' championship at present.
Seidl said McLaren saw no reason for Key to radically rethink its design concept for the first of its cars he is overseeing, but thinks a big gain is possible from how far ahead the team has got with its 2020 design.
"I would say for us that next year will be an evolution rather than a revolution," explained Seidl.
Autosport also said that the McLaren was a crap chassis and that they should be happy if they were beating Williams.