McLaren’s developments, the constraints of electrical management and the contrasting progress of Audi and Williams have shown that a good technical solution only becomes decisive when it is integrated into a coherent single-seater.

By Stéphane Chosse and Gautier Calmels

McLaren is also looking at Audi

Good ideas don’t only flow from the top to the back of the grid. In Baku, McLaren presented an evolution of its sidepods, with air intakes similar to the solution developed by Audi. This convergence isn’t enough to establish a direct lineage, but it does highlight the relevance…