The details behind McLaren's long-awaited Baku update

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Jake Boxall-Legge

May 2, 2023, 8:52 AM

After a difficult start to the season, McLaren was waiting for an Azerbaijan GP-scheduled update to kick its 2023 Formula 1 season into life. While Baku masked some of its strengths, the early signs are positive for the Woking squad. Here's a look at what it's changed, and why

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“What we have now is what we should have started the year with,” Lando Norris mused in the Thursday press conference ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, when asked about the subject of McLaren’s much-vaunted updates arriving in Baku.

As early as the launch of the MCL60, new McLaren team principal Andrea Stella did not sugar coat the suggestion that the new car would struggle in the early season; updates were planned for Baku owing to a change in late change in design direction in September last year, and the team was waiting for the ship to follow the steering.

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Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.