2025 McLaren F1 Team

[Darth-Piekus]

From what I see in other team channels things are only good for Mclaren. Reports from Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari are all mentioning ok programs but missing something. Here on the other hand we are all good to go. Things though may change in Melbourne but first impressions show that Mclaren has a good margin. The question is considering how Max likes to divebombs Mclaren cars out of bounds how are we going to contain him.

[Macklaren]

The question is considering how Max likes to divebombs Mclaren cars out of bounds how are we going to contain him.

i bet/hope Lando spent all winter thinking about this

[Darth-Piekus]

Time for him to prove that he won't be Verstappen's second fiddle forever. Time to send him to the grass to stop him from passing.

[f1isgood]

I doubt Lando will see much of Max at least early on assuming Red Bull can actually develop in season. Lando should have a straight fight with Oscar and get it done easy this year. It's Lando's WDC.

[Emag]

I think people are getting carried away. It was a good test, lets leave it at that. Wait for the first race at least before going all in with these predictions.

[Emag]

As far as I could tell, that wasn't the case no? His second stint was very consistent, doing mostly low 35s (35.1). Was he on C2 or C1 though? Because Oscar was on C1 for his middle stint.

they showed his second stint pit stop on TV and the tire looked awful. actually looked like he had run over a bunch of marbles....maybe had an off on the way in

The pace was near metronomic so whatever you saw wasn't affecting his pace.

His pace was good. He matched Oscar, but Oscar was on C1s on the second stint not C2s.

Not to mention the 1 hour difference between the runs where Russell had 6-7 degrees cooler track temps, which undoubtedly helps consistency.

[Balalu]

I think people are getting carried away. It was a good test, lets leave it at that. Wait for the first race at least before going all in with these predictions.

This ^ and the fact that it is a very long season ahead. Last year Red Bull won all opening races with outright domination and ended in 3rd as constructors.

[Chuckjr]

After watching testing for 3 days, Macca looks exceptional. Metronomic. Consistent. Reliable. Fast. Those qualities make champions. They are walking into Albert Park with big assets to build on. Great job McLaren, you've come a long way baby. Nicely done.

[Xero]

Plenty to be optimistic about after the test, but still remaining cautious. To me the car looks a good step forward, traction looks much improved and the front nose turns in really nicely. Might take a couple of races to fully dial the car setup in given the changes.

[Macklaren]

I understand all the disclaimers, its only testing, don't get too far ahead yadayada...BUT...let us assume this form is real and we max points for the first 3 weekends. When do you think we turn fully to 2026? One update at Miami, one at Barca after the wing change and then we're done? or even earlier?

[f1rules]

wow this is really not positive from Wache. I hope we destroy them lead by two of their former employees

"I am not as happy as I could be because the car did not respond how we wanted at times," he said.

[genarro]

And can we just agree that we have the best team principal on the paddock... Cool calm and exceptionaly inteligent... What a guy..

And lets not forget Zak, Rob, Peter and the great people at MRC... Lets have a great season

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[taperoo2k]

Mclaren already has a deal with Mercedes till 2030

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... 4r4mi0vhT5

That was the deal I was talking about. If the Mercedes PU in '26 is as good as the 2014 PU in terms of performance, then McLaren will be in a good place.

When you say McLaren are first in queue, that’s not correct. If Merc update the PU spec, no team (including merc) can run the new spec unless it’s available to all customers at the same time - assuming that’s what you mean

Manufacturers have to make all parts available to the teams, but the teams can elect to not take those new PU parts immediately as they might need to rearrange cooling systems etc. McLaren might get a heads up sooner than other teams as to PU design changes before they hit the manufacturing stage. But it's hard to say for sure, because the finer points of the deal between Mercedes and McLaren is likely commercially sensitive.

[Emag]

A bit annoyed because the API I used for my app had some issues with fetching data during testing. I opened an issue in github to report it and the developer finally pushed a PR now to fix the problem while backporting the data too, so all the data is there to analyze.

Oscar's long run was quite decent, but Mercedes seemed closer today with the higher temps :



Lando was an absolute monster yesterday though, until proven otherwise, it should be considered an outlier :