Bojan Vrbnjak
McLaren this year is definitely one of the positive surprises Formula 1, and the team from Woking he wants more in the 2020 season. Otherwise, they remain realistic and do not want to aim for third place, but they want to at least halve the current lag behind the top teams, as the team boss said. Andreas Seidl. What this means in time, the German himself is not entirely sure. “If we look at the times of the laps, then we are missing one second, sometimes a second and a half. Our goal is to reduce”So Seidl.
Compared to 2018, it has McLaren heavily repaired and the next step is expected to follow next year. When they focus on the new season, a lot of resources will be moved to 2020, but Seidl stresses that they do not want to neglect this year. McLaren is in fourth place at the time, it hasn’t been that good since 2012. That’s why they want to keep that place in every way possible.
In doing so, however, the results as on help them Hungarywhen they scored twelve points again while their main rival Renault Hungaroring left with an empty pocket. McLaren he has 82 points on his account and at that time already has a 39 point advantage over the first pursuer team Toro Rosso. This is a nice supply so that they can focus on the 2020 season. That is when the first car will be created under the pen of the new technical chief. James Key, which came from Red Bull. Nevertheless, Seidl talks about evolution because the technical correctness will remain the same.
And the foundation is good now. “We have already learned a lot with this car and we know its weaknesses. That's something we're going to do next year,”So the team boss McLaren. "We believe that with this we will take the next step forward and that we will have the usual timeline with the new car. Immediately after the winter testing, we started with the first concepts for next year. Unlike in previous years,He added Seidl.
"This, combined with the fact that we now have a clear technical director, fills me with optimism that this step forward will succeed,He added Nemec, who nevertheless wishes to remain realistic: "I have said several times that there is no magic. The lag behind the top is huge. But our goal is to get closer somehow in the coming year."
