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Today, the McLaren Formula 1 Team revealed the MCL38, the papaya staff’s automotive for the upcoming 2024 FIA Formula 1 Championship.
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In preparation for the 2024 season, the staff are additionally conducting a promotional filming day at Silverstone Circuit, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri sharing driver duties.
The MCL38’s on-track debut follows the reveal of our 2024 livery, which includes fan-favourite components of papaya and anthracite with a contact of chrome.
The staff heads to pre-season testing on the Bahrain International Circuit on February 21-23 forward of the opening race of the season on the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix on March 2.
Zak Brown, CEO McLaren Racing, mentioned:
Launching our 2024 competitor, the MCL38, at Silverstone is implausible immediately. It’s nice to see our new automotive in its 2024 livery on monitor and see the arduous work and dedication of the staff come collectively.
The implausible factor about this sport is its competitiveness; subsequently, we should stay real looking as each staff may have made progress within the low season. The precise check of whether or not we’ve made steps in the proper route will likely be qualifying in Bahrain. We’re all excited to go racing once more, however we all know there’s an extended season forward of us and a number of work nonetheless to do to make sure we construct on the progress we made all through 2023.
Andrea Stella, Team Principal, McLaren F1, mentioned:
The staff are excited to current the MCL38 immediately and to see it on monitor for the primary time. Going into this yr, we glance to construct on the momentum of final season however are real looking within the data that each staff may have made progress and located competitiveness for his or her 2024 automobiles. We now have the whole lot in place from an infrastructure, folks and tradition perspective, so we proceed to push ahead and construct on the work achieved to get us again to the entrance of the grid.
Before we hit the monitor for aggressive periods, we now have a number of work to do, together with placing the MCL38 by its paces through the Bahrain pre-season check. The staff has achieved a wonderful job over the winter, and we’re assured we will hit the bottom operating, however we all know we now have essential duties at hand earlier than the season begins. There are numerous improvements on the automotive, however not all of the areas we need to deal with have been accomplished for our launch-spec automotive. Those areas have now change into the main target of our in-season growth, which is already in progress.
My thanks go to the whole staff, each trackside and at MTC and MRC, for his or her excellent efforts in making certain the automotive was able to hit the monitor immediately and our colleagues at Mercedes HPP for his or her continued collaboration. We now concentrate on the lengthy season forward and sit up for Bahrain Testing subsequent week.
Lando Norris, Driver of McLaren F1, mentioned:
I’m excited to get behind the wheel of the MCL38 and see the way it runs. The livery seems to be nice on the brand new automotive, so it’s enjoyable to get out on monitor immediately.
I’m trying ahead to shaking the automotive down in Bahrain. I’m solely assured that we’ll proceed pushing ahead from final season’s turnaround. However, the precise check of our progress is developing once we put the automotive by its paces in testing forward of qualifying and racing for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Over the previous few weeks, I’ve been again on the MTC, placing a number of work in on the simulator with my engineering staff to make sure we’re totally ready forward of subsequent week. Thank you to everybody, trackside and on the manufacturing unit, for his or her work to get us thus far. I’m excited to carry to Bahrain and go racing once more.
Oscar Piastri, Driver, McLaren F1, mentioned:
It’s nice to drive the MCL38 on monitor for the primary time immediately. It’s a necessary milestone in our growth for the yr, and I’m excited to see it on monitor in its new livery.
We received’t know the place we stand relating to competitiveness till we go racing in Bahrain. Still, we’ve been making ready as greatest as attainable by spending time within the simulator, working carefully with everybody who’s designed, constructed and can run the automotive to make sure we’re prepared to begin strongly.
I’m trying ahead to the subsequent few weeks main right into a busy yr. Thank you to the staff for the whole lot they’ve achieved to organize us for 2024. I’m excited to kick off my second season in F1 correctly.
