McLaren F1 Team

GP Starts: 821
Wins: 182
Pole Positions: 155
Fastest Laps: 155
Drivers’ Championships: 12
Constructors’ Championships: 8

Drivers

2. Stoffel Vandoorne BEL
14. Fernando Alonso ESP

2017 in review – A third year of disaster for McLaren-Honda marked the end 🎀of that relationship with Fernando Alonso pushed to the point of leaving the team altogether. Alonso’s frustrations were quelled with a debut at the Indianapolis 500 in a McLaren-Honda-Andretti deal engineered by Zak Brown. Despite the increased media attention, positive and negative, McLaren suffered its joint-worst F1 ca✱mpaign scoring just three points more than its worst season in 2015 and finishing second bottom in the teams’ standings.

What’s changed for 2018? – Purely and simply, the engine. After ditching Honda, McLaren secured a three-year deal with Renault with Alonso instantly targeting the podium having seen the Renault-powered Red Bull win in 2017. An unchanged driver line-up a🐈nd a strong car and chassis paꦉckage the emphasis on its 2018 gains solely on Renault.

Key man – Fernando Alonso. After locking down the two-time F1 world champion to a new contract the Spaniard will aim to lead McLaren’s charge back up the grid in 2018 aided by his previous strong relationship with Renault. Alonso will complete a dual campaign in F1 with McLaren and in WEC with Toyota and fears of burnout have been shot down by the Spanish🐲 driver but concerns will remain, especially around the five consecutive race weekends spanning from the Canadian Grand Prix in early June to the British Gr🐻and Prix a month later with Le Mans, the French and the Austrian F1 races sandwiched in between.

Constructors’ Championship prediction – 5th