McLaren Formula 1 team principal An🦩dreas Seidl says he will encourage the Woking squadཧ to take risks in its recovery bid.

Following a disastrous three💖-year engine tie-up with Honda, McLaren finished sixth in the 2018 standings and has continued to make impressive progress ꦆthis season.

McLaren currently leads the midfield pack in fourth-place with a 20-point buffer to the Renault works squad which supplies its engines thanks to ♈a promising start to the year.

And new F1 boss Seidl says he is not against taking risksꩵ in the team’s continued push to return to winning ways at the top 🌸of the pecking order.

“I’m a guy who encourages people to take risks, to protect them w꧙hen something goes wrong,” Seidl sa🌜id. “You have to accept that mistakes are happening.

“For sure, you should try to prevent them in the first place, or you should make sure they don’t happen a second time. But wi♏th the position we are in, we need to take risks.

“But to do that you also need to have a certain confidence again,♏ also inside the team, a certain culture and spirit. And I think that’s something we 🍌have to build up now again together. Not saying that it’s too bad.

“I was really impressed wh🅰en I started with all the good results already this year. How positive the atmosphere was and how good the momentum was which was there.🦩 And it’s just important now to keep going in that direction.”

Seidl says he wants to get McLaren back into a position where it can start to꧟ develop♏ “adventurous” and “aggressive” concept designs, like current world champions Mercedes is able to do.

“The most important thing for me is to have continuous development, see continuous improvement as a team b❀ack home, and out here,” Seidl explained.

“I mean it’s im꧃portant that we also take our time to make sure we ꦍgo into detail in terms of the methods, tools and everything we are using to develop this stuff.

“Because that’s the foundation in the end for an aggressive devel⛎opment which is required, especially when you have a gap like we have. You need 🅰to build up this confidence again inside the team.

“But also brave enough to take, let’s say, risky or adventurous concept decisi🤪ons. That’s something that other teams with a lot of experience and conf🎉idence, like Mercedes, can do.

“It’s important to also, le🐟t’s say, to be in categories like pits stops, race strategy showing already now that we can take the fight with the൲ big ones, because it’s clear that that’s had a gap on the performance side and that’s something that will take time.”