We’ve seen the livery previously and now McLaren has revealed their 2024 Formula 1 racing car, the MCL38, at Woking.
McLaren has stuck to its popular papaya orange and black colour scheme for the new Formula 1 season.
This new car is buildt on the much-improved MCL60 which, after a slow start, came alive thanks to several mid-season upgrades last year.
It is the first car fully overseen from its conception by team boss Andrea Stella and his new technical structure at Woking, which enabled it to move up to fourth in the 2023 constructors’ championship, and it also the first product from McLaren’s brand-new wind tunnel.
With further high-profile recruits on board, including Red Bull Racing’s Rob Marshall and Scuderia Ferrari’s David Sanchez, McLaren hopes to improve on last year’s eight podiums between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after often having the second-quickest car behind Red Bull across the final third of last year.
“Going into this year, we look to build on the momentum of last season but are realistic in the knowledge that every team will have made progress and found competitiveness for their 2024 cars,” Stella said.
“We now have everything in place from an infrastructure, people and culture perspective so we continue to push forward and build on the work done to get us back to front of the grid.
“Before we hit the track for competitive sessions, we have a lot of work to do, including putting the MCL38 through its paces during the Bahrain pre-season test. The team has done a good job over the winter, and we are confident we can hit the ground running, but we know we have important tasks at hand before the season starts.
“There are a number of innovations on the car, but not all the areas we want to address have been completed for our launch-spec car. Those areas now become the focus of our in-season development, which is already in progress.
The new MCL38 certainly looks promising. Let’s see if this car can provide regular points finishes and hopefully Norris can finally win a Grand Prix race.
Social media:
https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/1757685639032533030
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Official website:
https://www.mclaren.com/racing/formula-1/2024/mclaren-formula-1-team-reveals-the-mcl38/
News stories:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.first-look-mclaren-present-new-f1-car-ahead-of-silverstone-shakedown.1CxtoqPxHYNwmeBVnJv6ww.html
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.gallery-check-out-more-angles-of-the-new-mclaren-mcl38-challenger.7M0jC3q7NT4mhO718gzxJD.html
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13059832/mclaren-reveal-mcl38-lando-norris-expresses-full-confidence-in-continued-progress-during-2024-f1-season
https://www.racefans.net/2024/02/14/first-pictures-mclaren-reveals-its-new-f1-car-for-2024/
Some intriguing trickery in the launch images of McLaren’s new Formula 1 car has hinted at one of the areas of “innovation” the team may be looking to keep secret.
In the press release quotes issued after the car images were made public, team principal Andrea Stella said: “There are a number of innovations on the car, but not all the areas we want to address have been completed for our launch-spec car.
“Those areas now become the focus of our in-season development, which is already in progress.”
“Some of the benefits may be embedded onto the launch car, but actually some of the projects belong to a workstream that may land trackside with some other developments,” he said. “Some things require a few months to be addressed, let’s say.”
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-launch-image-trickery-2024-f1-car-secrets/10575629/