McLaren introduced a new package in Baku which represented the car it felt it should have started the season with, adhering to a different floor philosophy that tried to address the lack of efficiency of the Woking team's launch spec MCL35.
But while the new floor delivered a small boost once it was put on the car in last week's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the car's continued inefficiency was still plain to see, with Lando Norris unable to pass Haas' Nico Hulkenberg for large spells of the race due to a lack of top speed, before finishing ninth.
