Bearing in mind the team's lack of hard results last year, 2007 has been a pretty good season thus far for McLaren, with seven podium finishes from eight starts. After his sensational run, Lewis Hamilton leads the world championship, and McLaren are also ahead in the constructors' version.
But the fact remains that Ferrari are ahead by three victories to one, and it's anybody's guess how the season will unfold.
McLaren also find themselves in the perhaps unexpected position of juggling the interests of their two drivers - a rookie who is regarded as part of the family, and the established superstar who grew up elsewhere and whose desire for privacy extends to keeping his new colleagues at a respectful distance.