From the February launch of the MCL60 car, which is an evolution of the 2022 design that Stella said McLaren was “not entirely happy with”, the prevailing sentiment has been that the team must be “realistic” in the early races.
While Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both hit reliability problems in the Bahrain season opener, they were buoyed by pace that should have left them on the cusp of points.
