Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri suffer reality check at F1 Belgian GP with McLaren needing “urgent work”

After enduring a torrid start to th🍒e season, McLaren have enjoyed a stunning recent upswing in form following a raft of upgrades that have turned around their competitiveness.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris finished second in back-to-back rounds at Silverstone and Budapest and teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri also claimed a podium in the Spa sprint ra💟ce.&𝄹nbsp;
However, Piastri retired with race-ending damage picked up in a first-lap tangle with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz in the grand prix, while Norris salvaged seventh after recovering from a nightmare opening stint💃.
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella admitted the weekend h💜ighlighted the work the British ꧃outfit still needs to do.
“T♛his weekend told us that where we could do work,” he said.
“The car is improved in some areas. Thi☂s was confirmed. But, at the same time, this weekend confirmed the areas that we haven't addressed yet.
“[It] gives us a reality check that there's more work to do and, to some extent, confir༒ms☂ that those areas, they need to be addressed quite urgently.
“This urgency, for instance, comes from the fact that a second race after [the summer] shut🍸down is Monza. You can't go racing in Monza like [we did in Spa].
“So, there'▨s urgent work🌜 that needs to happen at McLaren 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 haveꦚ to very frankly admit that, while this configuration 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 ♍weekend. 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 ꦑthan some of the priorities that we have worked on in the previous months.”

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