Christian Horner thinks that McLaren will have learned from his “lost opportunities” in F1 2024, while Lando Norris aims to win his first pilot championship.
McLaren with the fastest and maximum coherent car of the 2024 season, the British team has won its first manufacturers championship since 1998, however, Lando Norris may not overthrow Max Verstappen from his hanger.
The dominant began Red Bull in the 2024 season allowed Verstappen to open a forged advantage in the pilot championship, the Dutch pilot who later made his most productive advance while Norris returned strongly in the intermediate phase of the season.
With Red Bull’s RB20, which also falls from the boiling, while the team has crossed the difficulties of progression, one step back to introduce the revised floor in the United States Grand Prix has brought the team based in Milton Keynes brought to the race with Verstappen winning Sprint’s career in Austin, his first victory of all kinds from the Spanish summer prize.
The victories of the Grand Prize in Brazil and Qatar showed that the RB20 returned to a much more competitive window, the team was unable to save McLaren from winning the manufacturers championship.
With Sergio Pérez, who unearthed at the moment when Red Bull, the twinning more uniformly through McLaren de Norris and Oscar Piestri came out here at the head, while Ferrari relegated Red Bull to 3rd, while Charles Lecercer and Carlos Sainz helped the SCUDERC. At the moment.
Since it is the first year of McLaren in the race by a name for more than a decade, it would not be unexpected that, sometimes, the Woking team strategic escaped or presented a slight lack of transparent operational unlike Red Bull – An example in the Canada Grand Prix, when Red Bull took a decisive way Verstappen in the stands of an anterior circular that Norris and resumed the progress that a race of Norris had dominated.
With the McLaren MCL38, a pair of elegant heels appearing in Verstappen, to take advantage of the opportunity to Rojar Bull, the chief of the Christian Horner team said that he hopes that McLaren has learned the classes of those who escaped and would return more powerful in F1 2025 .
“I who when you do, lost many opportunities in the appearance of the driver [last],” he told Planetf1. com in an exclusive interview.
“They had two competitive drivers, who are strong for them in manufacturers. “
“But I am sure that Lando would possibly pass and think 3 or 4 victories in this campaign, with the car that had many races, it is probably less than they can also have.
“But I’m sure they’ll come back. They’ll learn from that, for sure.”
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A key thing in the adjustment of the championship fights the transparent operation of Red Bull, the reigning champions that make fewer mistakes that McLaren. After two consecutive manufacturers championships, Red Bull had been a constant thorn in the aspect of Mercedes in recent years.
Moving even more, the inclination of the Red Bull years between 2014 and ’20 has noticed the combat of the team for victories with a non -competitive Renault engine and in the first years of its Honda association.
It was through those more complicated periods that Horner believes that his team evolved the necessary escape to download effects that they did not deserve in natural performance.
“I think it has been the strength of this team, that we are an outdoor race team,” he said.
“It is a component of the philosophy that I have instilled from the beginning.
“When I arrived in 2005,” we are maximizing our possibilities and opportunities and our blows above our weight where we can “
“It has been our philosophy. We crossed a few tightened years from 2010 to 2013, then we spend through difficult years from the age of 14, however, we have won careers when the opportunity allowed.
“There was this determination, the grain and the sharpness of the race within the team that has allowed us to maximize our results. “
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