The crucial next steps for McLaren on its path to F1 recovery
A significant shake-up of senior staff and the promise offered by big infrastructure upgrades are part of the plan to get back to winning ways
Some people have been seeing McLaren in a very different light recently. In the 2019 film Hobbs & Shaw, the McLaren Technology Centre factory becomes a villainous organisation’s base. In the HBO science fiction television comedy series Avenue 5, the same building is restyled as mission control for an interplanetary cruise ship operator. Most recently, Disney+ Star Wars TV spinoff Andor reimagined the MTC as a bustling space port.
But, to Formula 1 fans, the results of the real-life work completed inside the gigantic Norman Foster-designed complex appear very familiar. If anything in 2023, they’re looking rather worse than previous years, when it appeared that the orange team was finally gaining the momentum required to take it back to race and title-winning peaks it has not scaled since 2008 and Lewis Hamilton’s first world championship triumph.
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