All eyes on Hungary 👀 But all eyes won't purely be on Daniel Ricciardo this weekend... DanielRicciardo HungarianGP F1
Having shot into leading contention with their upgraded MCL60 at Silverstone, the Hungaroring is the true litmus test for McLaren’s performance level.
McLaren, having shown up at testing and in Bahrain with a car they knew wasn’t going to do the job, bided their time as they developed an extensive upgrade package for the MCL60. While struggling to bring home points finishes, former McLaren driver and World Champion Mika Hakkinen posited the Woking-based team could make massive strides and perhaps even bring a challenge to Red Bull – a seemingly laughable suggestion just a few short weeks ago.
Team boss Andrea Stella has acknowledged the importance of the Hungarian weekend as serving as a proper gauge of where McLaren really are. “I don’t necessarily think about the destination, I just think about what do we have to put in place to keep improving,” he said. Having opted to take a sabbatical from racing in 2023 after his love of F1 was crushed out of him during his two years with an incompatible McLaren, Ricciardo has been angling for a seat in the Red Bull stable ever since signing up as their reserve driver for the year.
Red Bull haven’t been particularly aggressive with their upgrades so far in 2023, but will show up with a host of changes for Budapest as Max Verstappen confirmed to media, including PlanetF1.com, at Silverstone. “I guess it will only be when we get to Hungary, which is a track made up almost entirely of slower stuff, that we’ll get to know for sure.”
“By Hungary, we don’t expect that the specification of the car will not be aligned between Oscar and Lando. Like any other team, we will carry on delivering some upgrades to the following races. This is also thanks to the fact that, once we started redesigning the car, now we kind of unlocked performance, and through iterations we keep seeing the aerodynamic development being quite effective.
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