On a weekend where Formula 1’s future has dominated the news agenda, one matter of the here and now has cut through the noise: the degree to which the McLaren MCL39 is the dominant car and how the team has achieved this.
Despite Max Verstappen’s win at Suzuka last weekend against Red Bull’s run of form, McLaren remains the favourite this weekend even though Bahrain has been its bogey circuit in recent years. But team principal Andrea Stella pushed back against such assumptions, and even suggested that rival teams are exaggerating McLaren’s superiority for their own purposes.
