McLaren, like other championship teams, is preparing a special car configuration for the Monza stage, but it is not yet a fact that this will allow Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to show the results fans expect from them.
After the Belgian Grand Prix, Norris complained that he could not compete on par with other teams’ racers at Spa as the MCL60 did not develop enough speed on the straights. And then McLaren started talking about the need to urgently start preparations for Monza, where the car needs to be as soon as possible.
But the problem is that the team from Woking had different priorities throughout the season: the modernization of the car was aimed at improving the efficiency of the chassis as a whole, and there was simply no way to go with a separate version of the aerodynamic version to go. body kit for Monza.
After the Belgian stage, the mandatory summer break in the championship started, which meant that McLaren did not have enough time to prepare some special aerodynamic elements for the Italian Grand Prix.
Andrea Stella, team principal, made it clear that they decided to recreate existing versions of the wings instead.
“We are making some changes to their design,” Stella told The Race. “Something needs to be done urgently to find a way to increase the top speed, because in Monza we will face difficulties similar to those in Spa.
We hope that through a number of changes we will be able to achieve not only good results on the circle as a whole, but also high maximum speeds. Changes will be subject to existing wings. There will be some changes to the version of the wing we used at Spa.”
Whether these adjustments will be enough to make the MCL60 competitive at Monza will become clear soon enough. But Lando Norris is already prepared that the Italian weekend might not be easy for his team: “We did everything we could to make the car as fast as it is now, and it was definitely the right decision.
But at the same time, there are certain areas where we are still noticeably behind. But if 80% of our races are good and only 20% are bad, then I will gladly accept that.
We understand this and that’s good, but we also know that we’re going to have a pretty tough race ahead.”
Source: F1 News
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