Heading into the F1 2025 season, Ferrari and McLaren are easily the favorites when it comes to the Constructors’ Championship — but both are planning some major revisions from last year’s machine.
And on McLaren’s end, a new report has emerged suggesting that the Woking-based team’s alterations are set to be ‘very significant.’
After winning the global builders championship in 2024, McLaren must start a radical exit in the design language that led him to that name, and is not the only team for something radically different.
In a recent pre-season F1 report from Italian publication La Gazzetta dello Sport, both McLaren and Ferrari are looking to introduce sweeping changes to their F1 2025 machines with an eye to incoming F1 2026 regulations; both teams have reportedly found enough similarities between the current rules and the incoming ones that they’re able to start working on their future technology this year.
This follows a December statement from McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown that the Formula 1 team plans to take a “brave risk” with its 2025 F1, the MCL39.
“We’re going into next year at full strength,” Brown told Motorsport.com.
“I think we are now in another brain state in terms of team confidence and the courage that the team is in a position to take the progression of the car of next year.
“The team says [said]:” Just associate a little here and there. The car is quite good. »
“We’ve got some stuff on next year’s car that is [a] ‘brave risk.’
“I think you only succeed if you check to beat everyone, as opposed to the state of the brain when we started this year, which I like: “Let’s be as smart as they are. “
The brain is now: “We are going to beat everyone. ” “
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According to Gazzetta, McLaren’s technical director, Rob Marshall, said the Woking -based team intended to start running in safe concepts for the F1 2026 season, which only some of the “risks” that Brown has mentioned can.
The 2026 F1 season will bring updates to Formula 1’s technical direction, either for the power sets and for the other design elements surrounding the car, adding its suspension, aerodynamics, etc.
The aim is said to be to start operating with dynamic aerodynamics and institute safe technical adjustments ahead of F1 2026.
That way, when the new ruleset is officially introduced, McLaren will theoretically have a leg up on the competition courtesy of its extended F1 2025 test period.
The article notes, however, that many groups are thinking about a line, adding Ferrari with its new PullRrod front suspension design.
Is the “extreme” strategy for groups like McLaren or Ferrari, which seek to take care of the dominant force in F1?
We will know while the cars begin to anger the track.
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