Ferrari are "very happy" about their 2023 car and will be competing at the front from the very start of the season, according to new McLaren chief Andrea Stella.
The Italian spent more than a decade working for Ferrari as an engineer before making the move to his current team. That came as a result of Fernando Alonso's switch to McLaren from the Scuderia, while Stella had worked with both Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen before the Spaniard.
Naturally, Stella will still have many contacts working at Maranello which could prove useful in his new job as team principal at McLaren. His long-term goal is to get his team into a position where it is regularly competing against the top teams, though he knows that will be difficult to achieve straight away.
