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Ben Hunt: How a McLaren victory felt like a defeat

Damned if they do. Damned if they don't. After weeks of missed opportunities and subsequent scrutiny into how it fluffed their lines, McLaren finally did it.

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Does McLaren’s explanation for its F1 team orders controversy stack up?

McLaren may have delivered a dominant 1-2 at Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix, but it did not come without controversy thanks to the late team orders controversy.

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Why "best racer" Stella does not want sole credit for McLaren's F1 resurrection

While McLaren may have been left ruing opportunities it has had to deliver more Formula 1 wins recently, it equally is not blind to how far it has come.

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Exactly how much have F1 race mistakes cost McLaren this year?

McLaren would be just a handful of points behind Red Bull in an epic 2024 Formula 1 title battle, had it avoided errors and converted lost victory chances from the campaign’s first half.

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Piastri slams “embarrassing” Austrian F1 qualifying track limits situation

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri has slammed his track limits penalty in Austrian Grand Prix qualifying as “embarrassing” for Formula 1.

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McLaren now has best package in F1, says Sainz

McLaren now has the best package in Formula 1 and is not suffering fluctuations that even Red Bull is enduring, reckons Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. While Lando Norris was beaten to victory in the Spanish Grand Prix, the pace he was able to show as he closed in on winner Max Verstappen…

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Will F1 2024 go back to 'normal' as Red Bull flexes its Barcelona muscle?

The 2024 Formula 1 season has become a two or three or even four-horse race in recent races, but Red Bull is keen to re-assert its dominance on circuits that suit its car much better. McLaren and Ferrari had both been closing the gap to Red Bull since their respective…

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McLaren: no fear that upgraded MCL38 F1 car will suffer at high-speed Barcelona

McLaren has faith that the low-speed gains it has unlocked with recent upgrades do not mean that its MCL38 will be worse off at fast tracks like Barcelona.

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McLaren: No fear that upgraded MCL38 F1 car will suffer at high-speed Barcelona

McLaren has faith that the low-speed gains it has unlocked with recent upgrades do not mean that its MCL38 will be worse off at fast tracks like Barcelona. The Woking-based squad’s recent cars have typically excelled in high-speed corners, but there has been a shift in the characteristics of its…

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Ben Hunt: Brown's Ferrari F1 bromance and the importance of fun

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown and his friendship with Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has become noticeable to the point they are revelling in each other's successes.

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How the mutual faith between Norris and McLaren F1 is finally paying off

Norris' journey with McLaren goes back way further than that, with CEO Zak Brown taking a personal interest in the Briton's career even before he joined the Woking squad's young driver programme in 2017, aged 16. "I regard Lando as a fabulous prospect," Brown said at the time. "He blew…

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Miami GP grabs biggest live F1 US TV audience

ABC's broadcast of Lando Norris's maiden F1 victory attracted an average audience of 3.1 million viewers, which beats the previous record of 2.6 million that watched the inaugural Miami event in 2022.

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Miami GP grabs biggest ever live F1 US TV audience

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Who is Lando Norris, F1's newest grand prix winner?

The McLaren driver crossed the line 7.6 seconds clear of the all-conquering Max Verstappen, converting a strategy in which he went long on the medium-compound tyres and pouncing on a safety car to cycle out ahead of the three-time world champion.

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What the international media is writing about Norris's first F1 win

What is perhaps most significant about it though is that the triumph was not the result of freak circumstances putting Verstappen out of contention, as happened in Australia with his brake problem.

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Norris reveals bet about finishing 35 seconds behind Ferrari in F1 Chinese GP

Norris finished second in Shanghai after benefitting from a safety car period to make his only pitstop and come out ahead of Sergio Perez, but then managed to keep his hard tyres alive to comfortably control the gap with the Mexican. The result came as a surprise for McLaren at…

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Stella: Piastri has “gone a long way forward” and still has ‘more to cash in’

Piastri, entering his second season in the top flight, bagged fourth place in his home race in Australia last weekend following a team-orders switch to fall behind stablemate Lando Norris.

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Stella: Piastri has "gone a long way forward" and still has 'more to cash in'

Piastri, entering his second season in F1, bagged fourth place in his home race in Australia last weekend following a team-orders switch to fall behind stablemate Lando Norris.

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Stella: Leclerc finished ahead of Norris on merit in F1 Australian GP

Third-placed Norris believes that he could have deprived Leclerc of second in Melbourne if McLaren had have gone for an undercut strategy, as Ferrari and team-mate Oscar Piastri did.

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Norris: Not beating Leclerc to F1 Australian GP undercut cost second place

The Briton had qualified ahead of Leclerc and remained ahead during the opening phase of the race, but fell behind during the opening pit phase as the Monegasque and Norris' McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri conducted earlier pitstops to claim the undercut. In an effort to chase Leclerc, McLaren conducted a…

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What Road Cars Do F1 Drivers Drive?

From current leaders Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen to veterans like Fernando Alonso and Daniel Ricciardo, we cover the whole grid.

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