The project of McLaren in Formula 1, as they have stated in other teams such as Alpine, it is in the long term to achieve important successes. your pilot Lando Norris He has stated that it will be in 2025 when his team can fight for victories every weekend.
In statements collected by ‘Motorsport’, he has stated that he will have patience: “I am patient enough to endure those years. Or rather, not to sit and wait, but to make the most of those two years.”
“After all, I’m only 23 years old and I think I still have many courses ahead of me. In two years I will be 25 and that could be the year in which we can really fight”, has affirmed.
McLaren’s new wind tunnel will be essential to take that final step forward: “I also feel very comfortable here and I have confidence in the team. When we can use the new wind tunnel, I think it will be possible to take bigger steps forward, to 2024 or 2025”.
That is the long-term goal, but in the short term McLaren wants to go back to being the best of the rest, behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes: “But obviously I expect 2023 to be better than last year. We had a very difficult start, and then Alpine dropped us from fourth place.”
“We have to be the team that is just behind the top three. If we are fourth again this year and lead the middle zone, it will be fine,” said Norris, who was precisely chosen by max verstappen for his ‘Dream Team’ together with the Spanish Fernando Alonso.
