2025 McLaren F1 Team

[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 :

[Nicktendo86]

I think Oscar was stuck in traffic for a lot of the second stint which may have skewed the data?

[Emag]

I think Oscar was stuck in traffic for a lot of the second stint which may have skewed the data?

Some laps towards the end yes, but honestly, even matching Russell is still good for Oscar because he was on the C1 for the 2nd stint whereas Russell was on the C2.

Also, Russell had 4 degree cooler track temps, which is not some crazy difference, but it does help with the tires somewhat.

[M840TR]

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.

Here's the source: https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/329905/r ... hrain.html

I am not as happy as I could be because the car did not respond how we wanted at times, but it is going in the right direction, just maybe the magnitude of the direction was not as big as we expected and it’s something we need to work on for the first race and future development

[101FlyingDutchman]

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 :

Oscar’s middle stint was on a compound harder than George’s. So then it’s pretty linear 0.5/0.6s. Engine modes and exact fuel loads of course are a total unknown but it sure looks good. I’m relieved the deg isn’t out of control.
Slow speed cornering speed is up but medium speed and up doesn’t seem too compromised. Very nice

[carisi2k]

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.

Probably because of the wind and cooler temperatures. The mclaren looked really skittish in the morning and the new car looks less stable in the rear.

[MrGapes]

Unfortunately missed yesterdays testing, how was Oscars race sim??

[FittingMechanics]

Unfortunately missed yesterdays testing, how was Oscars race sim??

More degradation than for Lando (when it was colder), but still it looked like the best sim out there.

Qualy runs didn't light the world on fire.