After enduring a torrid start to the season, McLaren have enjoyed a stunning recent upswing in form following a raft of upgrades that have turn🐻ed around their competitiveness. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris finished second in back-to-back rounds at Silverstone and Budapest and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri also claimed a podium in t𝕴he Spa sprint race. 

However, Piastri retired with race-ending damage picked up in a first-lap tangle with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz in the grand prix, while Norris sal💮vaged seventh after recovering from a nightm🤪are opening stint. 

McLaren team principal🥂 Andrea Stella admitted the𝔉 weekend highlighted the work the British outfit still needs to do. 

“This weekend told us that where wꦰe could do work,” he said. 

“The car is imp🦄roved in some areas. This was confirmed. But, at the same time, this weekendꦐ confirmed the areas that we haven't addressed yet.

“[It] gives us a real𝐆ity check that there's more work to do and, to some extent, confirms that those areas, they need to be addressed quite urgently.

“This urgency, for instance, comes from the fact that a second race after ꧙[the summer] shutdown is Monza. You can't go racing in Monza like [we did in Spa].

“So, there's urgent work that needs to happen at McL🧜aren to fix the situation.”

McLaren were without an optimised low-drag rear rear 𝄹wing at Belgium and Stella acknowledged that straight-line speed is an area where the team needs to improve. 

“We have to very frankly admit that, while this configurﷺation gave us an advantage in the previous days, [the GP] was starting to be a significant issue,” he explained. 

“Overall, let's say there's some learning we take out of this wee🍨kend. I think the opportunity to remark is not like we necessarily wanted to target this configuration.

“Fixing🐲 the efficiency of the car at low drag is on the to-do list. But it was lower than some of the priorities that we have worked on in the previous months.”