2026 McLaren Mastercard F1 Team

[proteus]

The headbutting of Oscar at his last stop was suspicious... Damn shame the gearbox broke laps later. Great to get the win though.

[Macklaren]

Should have been 1-2 but that was a dominant, 2025 like win

McLaren could dominate at least the next few races with the full upgrade and maccarena

But they need to fix this gearbox vulnerability

[AR3-GP]

Very good from Lando.

[CjC]

Shite that Lando

[geogate]

Shite that Lando

worse world champion ever so i hear.
Well done Macca. very sorry for oscar, but rather have some reliability issues but a car that can win races. This wasnt Oscars weekend. Keep the upgrades coming and he will get his chance

[Emag]

Very good from Lando.

He was way too fast today on pure pace, but the lap 1 slide was definitely not a good look. Without it, he could have had an absolute dominant showing today because it seemed like he comfortably had at least 0.5s (probably more) per lap on Oscar.

McLaren has a car with which is really hard to overtake to begin with, but the fact that he had to do it against his teammate, a car going with the same deployment strategy. On a track like Hungary which has no energy problems, made it very hard to overtake Oscar. Would have liked to see it happen on track by the world champion, but it wasn't worth a divebomb I guess since the gap was never close enough in the start/finish straight.

In any case, the pace alone makes it a very impressive day for him. Untouchable today. Got Mexico 2025 vibes.

[Darth-Piekus]

It was a great victory but I cant feel content as the race was dominated by the stewards again negatively. It leaves a bitter taste.

[Mcl_G10]

I wonder exactly how track specific this pace is?
The upgrades were a few tenths according to Stella.

Bodes well for the Dutch GP which is another one we tend to do well at i believe.

[Macklaren]

It was a great victory but I cant feel content as the race was dominated by the stewards again negatively. It leaves a bitter taste.

In what way?

[Emag]

I wonder exactly how track specific this pace is?
The upgrades were a few tenths according to Stella.

Bodes well for the Dutch GP which is another one we tend to do well at i believe.

Kind of puzzled again by this technical team. McLaren are the only ones that can turn up with a "huge upgrade package" where you barely see any surface changes and yet they go multiple tenths faster (comparatively) to what they were before them.

Again goes to show how little you can draw out from the surface aero. This car looks largely the same to how it looked in Barcelona if you just glanced at it, yet it has now gone from 3rd/4th fastest to the fastest car (at least in Hungary). RedBull has gone through 2 sidepod changes in the meantime.

[CjC]

I wonder exactly how track specific this pace is?
The upgrades were a few tenths according to Stella.

Bodes well for the Dutch GP which is another one we tend to do well at i believe.

Kind of puzzled again by this technical team. McLaren are the only ones that can turn up with a "huge upgrade package" where you barely see any surface changes and yet they go multiple tenths faster (comparatively) to what they were before them.

Again goes to show how little you can draw out from the surface aero. This car looks largely the same to how it looked in Barcelona if you just glanced at it, yet it has now gone from 3rd/4th fastest to the fastest car (at least in Hungary). RedBull has gone through 2 sidepod changes in the meantime.

Valid point.
Makes me wonder what’s changed under the skin

[venkyhere]

Spectacular driving by Norris.
Spectacular - is the only word I would use.
Yes, the car was the quickest, but I don't think it was the car alone. The driver made a big difference in terms of pace delta to anyone.

Highlights for me :
- the way he upped the pace on the first stint M and extended them, after coming into clean air
- the 2nd stint on H, was 1s/lap faster than the next fastest H runner (VER).

[FittingMechanics]

I wonder exactly how track specific this pace is?
The upgrades were a few tenths according to Stella.

Bodes well for the Dutch GP which is another one we tend to do well at i believe.

Few tenths (and good starting position) is enough to turn things around, the gaps are small but get exaggarated if you are behind and in dirty air.

[Mcl_G10]

Could have been so different if one of the ferrari had got past Verstapen early on.

[AR3-GP]

I wonder exactly how track specific this pace is?
The upgrades were a few tenths according to Stella.

Bodes well for the Dutch GP which is another one we tend to do well at i believe.

This isn't sudden. Lando had an eye opening first stint in Silverstone (very long, no deg) and then was probably the fastest in Spa. Mclaren have been building towards this for a while and the fruits of their labor are coming now. They had a smaller floor update in Silverstone but it was a sprint weekend so they didn't have a lot of time to dial it in. Then Lando got the new PU and rear wing in Spa, and more new parts in Hungary. It's coming together. It's not a flash in the pan.

This is the quality that you come to expect from the new era in Woking. I don't know what happened at the start of the year other than being shafted by the lack of windtunnel resources and Mercedes underhanded tactics on the PU side.