McLaren have explained the expected benefit of their upgraded front wing at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.

The British squad was one of only a few teams to update their 2024 challenger for this we🏅ekend’s race at the Red Bull Ring.

McLaren hope the new front wing will improve the 🃏low-speed behav🌜iour of the MCL38 and boost their ongoing bid to challenge Red Bull.

“The focus is to keep the development direction that we introduced trackside with the front wing we took to Miami,” M🍎cLaren team principal Andrea Stella told media including in Austria. 

“We saw that that concept worked well, so we wanted to pursue further this direction, and this is another attempt to improve, in particular, the low-speed behavio🌟ur of the car.”

McLaren are confident the updated front wing can bring low-speed gains witho꧑ut negatively impacting their high-speed pe▨rformance.

“Especially with this generation of cars, and this generation of front wing regulations, the geometries are very restricted,” Ste🌱lla added.

“ꦕIt is very difficult to achieve what you want at your speed - at high-speed angles for instance - or what you want in a straight line or what you want in high-speed.

“This is a challenge that I’m sure all teams are facing and that’s also why it’s quite difficult to bring developm𒐪ent on a front wingﷺ.

“So hopefully the compromise we are working on is𒀰 capable of del♋ivering some low-speed benefit but without affecting the high-speed or the straight lines too negatively.”

As well as the new front wing, McLa🎐ren have also dไebuted new suspension fairings.

“The suspension is just the fairings, just♔ the shrouds,” Stella explained.

“When you ch🐬ange the♔ front wing it changes slightly the flow that goes to the back of the car and so you need to optimise the components downstream for the slight variation in the flow topology.

“This is very normal, I think I s🦄ee more and more when teams bring a front wing upgrade they also then upgrade brake ducts and suspension shrouds. That’s purely aerodynamics.”