McLaren setting development targets, not results, as its F1 2024 goals

After a torrid start to 2023, McLaren made dramatic steps with its mid-season car upgrades that allowed Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to take nine podiums between them, propelling the team past fast-starting Aston Martin to fourth in the constructors’ championship.That turnaround resulted from a technical restructuring by Stella to better utilise staff already in place at Woking, with its new …Keep reading
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Gene Haas “embarrassed” by his team’s poor F1 form

The American has also opened up on his reasons for not renewing the contract of team principal Guenther Steiner, and for promoting Ayao Komatsu to the role rather than taking on an outsider.The team announced the shock changes on Wednesday, while also confirming that technical director Simone Resta had left.Ferrari supplies the team with not just a power unit and gearbox but also suspension and …Keep reading
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How F1 partner Tata is laying the groundwork for 8K TV future

F1 was quick to shift its broadcasts to High Definition, then real HD and, in 2017, moved to 4K ultra-high definition.Now, its Official Broadcast Connectivity Provider Tata Communications is beginning to put in place what is needed for the likely next industry standard – 8K.The new images would be four times sharper than current broadcasts and, while that may seem an unnecessary step considering …Keep reading
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Can F1’s latest engineer team boss pull off a McLaren-style turnaround for Haas?

After all, the way that Andrea Stella took to the team principal role at McLaren like a duck to water – helping steer one of the most impressive F1 comebacks in living memory – showed all that’s possible with the right engineering-led focus at the top.Komatsu, who has until recently been Haas’s director of engineering, steps up to the top job after a lengthy career in the garage and on the …Keep reading
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