Through the 2024 season, (the shortage of) group orders at McLaren was a a lot mentioned subject on the planet of Method One. From the group to rivals and media, many mirrored on the Woking-based group’s selections. In accordance with Andrea Stella, that could be a headache they want to have subsequent 12 months if Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finally ends up preventing for the drivers’ title.
Whereas Lando Norris missed out on the drivers’ title, in 2024, McLaren had been topped constructors’ champions. Ending on prime of the groups’ standings, expectations are excessive work the British group to carry out on the entrance and likewise struggle for the title they missed out on final season.
Requested how McLaren would react to a title battle that entails each Norris and Oscar Piastri, group principal Andrea Stella mentioned: “We do need to have that form of drawback. We work very arduous to have an issue of getting a automobile in situation to win races and two drivers in situation to win races. And we all know that this one in Method 1 all the time comes with some problems, however these are problems that we’ve already confronted this season to some extent.”
The Italian underlined that what issues to the group would be the precedence. “I believe we’ve all the time approached that in a cohesive method. Each drivers had been all the time totally conscious that we have to discover options that, to begin with, put the curiosity of the group [first] after which the curiosity of the drivers [second]. And to date, I believe this has been a really optimistic course of. It is a course of that we plan to hold over onto subsequent season.”
Nonetheless, it isn’t the matter that considerations the group principal. “We name it drawback [this time], probably it is extra of a possibility. Our focus is to guarantee that from a technical point-of-view, we give Lando and Oscar a automobile that’s in situation to struggle for the championship. As a result of had we achieved this in the beginning of this season, with out having some underperformance within the early races of the season, then we’d have been in situation to struggle for the drivers’ championship for longer,” he concluded in Abu Dhabi.
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